[ale] Linux works

[Marc Ferguson]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Mark Wright <m.perry.wright at gmail.com>wrote:

> I had another happy penguin moment today.
>
> I have an old IBM laptop that doesn't have wifi.  I threw the laptop and a
> 4 year old dlink USB wifi adaptor in my suit case in hopes of maybe using
> the wifi with an as yet unbooted XP partion left on the laptop years ago.
>
> But, once out of town I booted Ubuntu 9.04 to check some documents that I
> hoped to access from Winders and lo and behold the wireless was working!
>
>  When I bought this USB wifi stick years ago at the markdown counter at
> Microcenter I tried for days to get Mandriva to use it with no joy.  Never
> tried it again.
>
> Linux gets better with age.
>
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Ah, like fine wine! I like my Linux with a good filet mignon.

-- 
Marc Ferguson

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