Win10 Home / Linux LAN - anyone got one going?

Hi Neil - been there! Out of interest were you getting your WiFi drivers from Astronomy Linux repositories, Ubuntu or the manufacturers site? All three ways can raise different issues.

Despite having used various versions of Linux since 1994 I am still not convinced that hardware support is always as easy to find and put into place as it might easily be made to be. But please persevere as the underlying system is well worth the effort.

I was unaware there was a specific distribution for astronomers until you mentioned it - Having just looked it up it seems useful, and the flexibility of Linux in enabling all of the applications for a particular area of interest to be set up in one go is one of the benefits of the system.

Nick

The drivers came from Ubuntu.

In short, the various web pages didn't explain anything in a way I could understand, and following the instructions about installing the driver onto a laptop with no internet connection simple sent me on a ping-pong trail back and forth between two websites, each telling me the other would tell me what to do.

I had to jury rig a wired internet connection, but it took about an hour to discover that astronomy linux came with the originator's ethernet connection already set up and that was blocking me setting up a new one. I deleted it and it found my connection.

The other big issues were things not being where they were supposed to be and the computer repeatedly hanging or requiring restarts - it even needed a restart before it could find a mouse, presumably because it wasn't plugged in when I booted.

I won't go through the hours it took to get a workable ISO disk image onto a USB key...

Hopefully I can just get this set up as tool and forget about greping and sudoing!

I used this **LINK** Very simple. Worked first time.