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Old 06-12-08   #1 (permalink)
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Default Laptop Without Hard Drive Suggestions.
I recently received a Toshiba Satellite 1955-S805 from a friend. It had no HDD, I picked one up only to discover that he lost the HDD adapter for the laptop.
I also discovered that this particular piece costs around 35 bucks from shady dealers on the web. I have decided that since I have only really wanted a laptop for web surfing and email, that I would just run a live disc of linux such as DSL or pendrivelinux. Issue is that both of those are a pain to get your wifi cards working on(doesn't help that I am bash retarded). So, I have also found a program that compiles an XP live disc from an XP disc you already have. I just compiled and burned it up. I am about to try it out to see if it is simpler to get the wifi setup. Anyone have any other suggestions or ideas?
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It shouldnt be too much of an issue. Is it a built in wireless card. Then it might be a little more difficult depending on age and driver support. Linux is probably the way to go if you can get the wireless working.
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ndiswrapper ftw

edit: unless you don't know the bash commands cd and install
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Ubuntu 8.04 seems to have pretty good driver support.
It's definitely worth a shot.
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...I would just run a live disc of linux such as DSL or pendrivelinux. Issue is that both of those are a pain to get your wifi cards working on(doesn't help that I am bash retarded).
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Ubuntu 8.04 seems to have pretty good driver support.
It's definitely worth a shot.
Hmm...might give that a try, thanks.
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ndiswrapper ftw

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yup ndiswrapper pendrivelink has it, so all you have to do is find the windows drivers for the wifi, and itll run the wifi card using those thats what i been doing, since my HD died and my new 1 hasnt came in yet.
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yup ndiswrapper pendrivelink has it, so all you have to do is find the windows drivers for the wifi, and itll run the wifi card using those thats what i been doing, since my HD died and my new 1 hasnt came in yet.
Yeah, actually I got that to work really easily in pendrivelinux, but for some reason it couldn't snag an IP address from my router. I had the WEP key right and it was allowed on MAC filtering. Just wouldn't give it an IP.
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