Ubuntu Networking :: Dual Boot Kubuntu / Win 7 (64bit) - Wireless Drivers?
Jan 3, 2011
I dual boot windows 7 and Kubuntu on my laptop, my wireless card works on windows 7 no problem, and luckily the company also has a linux version of the driver. My question is, how can I install packages on kubuntu without a wired internet connection, and what packages should I download to be able to install the driver on kubuntu without getting errors?
My wireless card is Realtek 8192CE.
Here is the download page for the driver, in case I missed something.
I am dual-booting Kubuntu/Windows 7 x64bit.
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Jun 24, 2010
asus K60IJ intel 4400 dual-core 4gb ram trying to setup suse 11.2 64bit as dual boot. works fine with win7 in dual boot and system boots great. been following forums to setup wireless. after doing all term commands, it see's both built in wireless (atheros ar9285) on the pci-e and the usb verizon broadband modem as (curitel brand modem). after checking kernal dmesg, it see's devices but looking at usr/sbin/iwconfig, it see's no eth0. checked at the asus website and see nothing on getting any kind of ethernet drivers.
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Wireless is checked enabled on my taskbar, and I have checked my bios and haven't found any setting to disable the wireless adapter. Anything networking related has been enabled. At this point I am rather frustrated with the stability of Kubuntu overall and would prefer a hard solution that will permanently fix the problem.
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I don't know what to do or how to diagnose the problem. I thought it might be the boot loader or maybe the graphics card, but I'm not sure. I'm very new to anything Linux and I'm not the most computer savvy person.
I'm using a Gateway NV79 laptop
spec:
Intel Core i3 330M
500GB HDD
4GB RAM
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator HD with 128MB
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I just bought a Dell 537s machine and configured it for dual boot of Windows 7 and Kubuntu 9.10. On my old dual boot machine I had the Windows System and the Linux System on different disk partitions. That way I could write fstab in such a way as to make the Windows System read-only as seen from Linux, so Linux couldn't mess up any Windows System files (and since Windows can't read ext3, Windows couldn't mess up the Linux System).
But the new machine came with Windows 7 installed and gobbling up 3 primary partitions. Kubuntu installed itself in such a way that Linux can read/write to the Windows System. This makes me nervous that Kubuntu might be able to mess up Windows 7.
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and sdb3 is the swap (3gb).
I want to do a destructive upgrade to Kubuntu 10.10 - I have the CD already and burnt. I know I have to select the partitions manually due to the complicated setup, I know I need to format the sdb2 partition to ext4, mount point /, and the swap can stay the same. On which hard drive should I install the bootloader? I can't remember where it is installed now, all I know is I had a lot of problems with the install.
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SATA 0 is Win 7 Pro 64 bit , 1 NTFS partition
SATA 1 is partioned as follows
8G swap
200G EXT4 mounted as /
800G NTFS
I booted from Ubuntu cd, ran install chose manual partition scheme and set up SATA 1 as above. Grub2 boots into Windows 7 with no problems and I can see/use NTFS partition on SATA1 When I try to boot into default Ubuntu the screen goes black and then loses video signal and nothing happens, doesn't sound like the disk is doing anything. Grub for the linux boot is as follows
recordfail
insmode ext2
set root='(hd1,2)'
search --no-floppy --fs-UUID --set a05...yadayada....b7a
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=a05....yadayada...b7a ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img -2.6.32-21-generic
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Ubuntu
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Sudo dpkg -i ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.54-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
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10) From what I gather after the system finds the hardware I am to write into the terminal
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Mar 20, 2010
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