geoffma
February 5th, 2009, 11:06 AM
I have Dapper on a Acer travelmate laptop.
It worked fine for over a year using a pc-card wifi card (dapper doesnt support the acer network or wifi cards)... until the pc-card stopped working.
The CD drive has also failed.
I'd like to upgrade to the latest ubuntu because it does have drivers for the acer inbuild wifi cards, but I cant seem to install it on top.
I cant install from CD, and I cant "upgrade" or "install" from the internet. I've tried downloading the 8.10 iso file and installing from USB stick, but 2 sticks I've tried havent booted successfully. I used cd2usb tool from another computer with vista to create the boot stick.
Is there any other option? I can transfer files (via usb stick) and possible install from the harddrive if thats possible. Anyone know how ?
It worked fine for over a year using a pc-card wifi card (dapper doesnt support the acer network or wifi cards)... until the pc-card stopped working.
The CD drive has also failed.
I'd like to upgrade to the latest ubuntu because it does have drivers for the acer inbuild wifi cards, but I cant seem to install it on top.
I cant install from CD, and I cant "upgrade" or "install" from the internet. I've tried downloading the 8.10 iso file and installing from USB stick, but 2 sticks I've tried havent booted successfully. I used cd2usb tool from another computer with vista to create the boot stick.
Is there any other option? I can transfer files (via usb stick) and possible install from the harddrive if thats possible. Anyone know how ?