wine users - Jul 2009 - New Linux user with installation woes

My apologies if this has cropped up before, but a search and a look at the FAQ
hasn't given me much.

I'm a total newbie with the whole Linux thing. I've currently got a dual
boot Ubuntu/Windows XP setup with a wireless adaptor as my means of internet.
The driver that comes with the adaptor only talks Windows, and so it won't
appear to work when I boot in Ubuntu. The only way I gather I can realistically
get Wine to install with my knowledge is to copy and paste an address into an
Ubuntu installer (please correct me if I'm wrong in any way) and it
downloads what's needed. Since I can't get my adaptor to work, I
can't connect to the internet to download anything.

I've tried opening the readme file and opening the file it tells me to but
I'm faced with a code in notepad (or Ubuntu equivalent) and I'm not sure
what I'm supposed to do with it.

Does anyone have any guidance and advice for a clueless individual who's
thrown himself into a relatively shallowish deep end in an attempt to learn
something about an operating system he's curious about?

Thanks in advance for any help

MrNoodle wrote:
> My apologies if this has cropped up before, but a search and a look at the
FAQ hasn't given me much.
> 
> I'm a total newbie with the whole Linux thing. I've currently got a
dual boot Ubuntu/Windows XP setup with a wireless adaptor as my means of
internet. The driver that comes with the adaptor only talks Windows, and so it
won't appear to work when I boot in Ubuntu. The only way I gather I can
realistically get Wine to install with my knowledge is to copy and paste an
address into an Ubuntu installer (please correct me if I'm wrong in any way)
and it downloads what's needed. Since I can't get my adaptor to work, I
can't connect to the internet to download anything.
> 
> I've tried opening the readme file and opening the file it tells me to
but I'm faced with a code in notepad (or Ubuntu equivalent) and I'm not
sure what I'm supposed to do with it.
> 
> Does anyone have any guidance and advice for a clueless individual
who's thrown himself into a relatively shallowish deep end in an attempt to
learn something about an operating system he's curious about?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help

You should be able to download the package to your hard drive while in Windows,
then install it from there after booting into Ubuntu. As to how to point
Ubuntu's package manager to the downloaded file, it may be as simple as
double clicking the file, but I don't use Ubuntu myself, so I can't say
for sure. Check Ubuntu's documentation.

MrNoodle wrote:
> My apologies if this has cropped up before, but a search and a look at the
FAQ hasn't given me much.
>
> I'm a total newbie with the whole Linux thing. I've currently got a
dual boot Ubuntu/Windows XP setup with a wireless adaptor as my means of
internet.
This device, unless it appears in Linux, is not supported in Wine. 

A suggestion is to Google for this device and see if someone has been
able to make it work in Linux.

James McKenzie

On 07/23/2009 03:31 PM, MrNoodle wrote:
> ...I'm a total newbie with the whole Linux thing...
Welcome!  But be prepared for frustration, because MicroSoft wants it that
way.
> I've currently got a dual boot Ubuntu/Windows XP setup with a wireless
 > adaptor as my means of internet. The driver that comes with the
adaptor
> only talks Windows, and so it won't appear to work when I boot in
Ubuntu...
As others have already posted, wine uses the linux network to connect to
the internet, so your first step is to get linux connected to the internet.

I know that ubuntu has a large and helpful group of people ready to help
you do that on their user forums, mailing lists, IRC, etc. so that's the
place to start.  Once your linux connects to the internet, then this is
the place to come back to.

Good luck, and be patient -- it's worth it.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:31 PM, MrNoodle<wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> My apologies if this has cropped up before, but a search and a look at the
FAQ hasn't given me much.
>
> I'm a total newbie with the whole Linux thing. I've currently got a
dual boot Ubuntu/Windows XP setup with a wireless adaptor as my means of
internet. The driver that comes with the adaptor only talks Windows, and so it
won't appear to work when I boot in Ubuntu. The only way I gather I can
realistically get Wine to install with my knowledge is to copy and paste an
address into an Ubuntu installer (please correct me if I'm wrong in any way)
and it downloads what's needed. Since I can't get my adaptor to work, I
can't connect to the internet to download anything.
>
> I've tried opening the readme file and opening the file it tells me to
but I'm faced with a code in notepad (or Ubuntu equivalent) and I'm not
sure what I'm supposed to do with it.
>
> Does anyone have any guidance and advice for a clueless individual
who's thrown himself into a relatively shallowish deep end in an attempt to
learn something about an operating system he's curious about?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
Download:
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/ubuntu/jaunty/wine_1.1.26~winehq0~ubuntu~9.04-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
or if on 64-bit:
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/ubuntu/jaunty/wine_1.1.26~winehq0~ubuntu~9.04-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

then in ubuntu, use:
$ sudo dpkg -i wine_*.deb

-- 
-Austin

Well, I've finally managed to install Wine without internet, only to
discover that I can't actually use it to get my wireless adaptor. James was
right. Thanks for your help.

Looks like it's time for a new adaptor...