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Liam Riordan
February 19th, 2009, 01:15 AM
Alo folks, I'm totally new to Linux/Ubuntu. I'm sick of XP and its crap. So I got the Ubuntu 8.10 CD, I just installed it alongside my XP (family doesn't like change).

It starts good, but I want to get onto the Internet, so I pop in my USB which has an .exe installer for my Modem, since its for Windows I expect. And I expect my hardware CD will not work for Ubuntu either.

What can I do to get my USB modem hardware files, my sound and old video card drivers onto Ubuntu?

Again, I'm a big newbie, but I want to get out of Windows.

Shazaam
February 19th, 2009, 01:21 AM
Dial-up or broadband modem?
Windows .exe's do not run (without Wine or ndiswrapper) on Ubuntu/linux.

Liam Riordan
February 19th, 2009, 01:24 AM
Dial-up or broadband modem?
Windows .exe's do not run (without Wine or ndiswrapper) on Ubuntu/linux.

Aha I remember my friend telling me about Wine... Will I need to download it through here then migrate it to my Ubuntu partition?

Oh its broadband. A BT Voyager 105 ADSL Modem.

dcottingham
February 19th, 2009, 02:44 AM
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140010 seems to address this problem. Written a couple years ago, so some adjustment will be needed.