Fzilla: Sorry about the scattergun approach. I was trying to provide as much context as possible for dealing with the main question: why didn't Debian figure out the Thinkpad wifi requirements? I've installed slackware, red hat, and a couple of buntu's and the wifi always worked except when some other drivers were need to support wifi on an external dongle. The t-61 is a fairly modern device and I would expect the latest version of Debian to include whatever was needed to support it. I've downloaded some driver and diagnostic stuff from the Lenovo site before but I didn't see any linux tarballs there. The install asked only for dvd's one and two. Is it possible the info I need is on one of the other ones? Thanks, Ed > Wow, you're kind of all over the place over here, and nothing in your > message actually asks about Win7 interacting with Linux, so I'm not sure > what questions you have about that. > > You can download drivers for any Lenovo laptop from Lenovo's website, > perhaps that will help. Debian should be able to read NTFS partitions so > you can download and save stuff through Windows. > > You can probably nuke the thinkpad reserved partition (if Windows isn't > using it, I'm not 100% sure) and technically you COULD move /usr over > there, but you obviously can't do that while the system is running. > You'd have to boot from a live distribution, format (if you haven't done > that already), copy everything over, and modify your system's /etc/fstab > to reflect the new location for /usr. > > > > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Ed C. wrote: > >> I installed squeeze along side win 7 enterprise 64bit (after resizing >> win 7 partition to be a couple of gigs larger than what it was currently >> using) and most things seemed to go as planned except for Debian >> recognizing the wifi transceiver (this on a t61 Thinkpad). I do have the >> 8 dvd Debian distro but I can't use apt-get or aptitude as far as I >> know. I need the wifi to work on this machine since I still have only >> dial up at home. During install Debian asked for wifi external media to >> help with drivers or something but I skipped this step since I don't >> have any Lenovo stuff for this system (bought used on Craigslist). Any >> suggestions? Grub is on the mbr of the win 7 partition, I think. Also, >> what about the dedicated Thinkpad 6 gig partition? Can I mount this? Can >> I rededicate it as /user in the Debian file hierarchy after >> reformatting it? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Ed. >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >