Rick Morris <wmorris@neb.rr.com> wrote:
>On 5/31/05 7:45 PM, in article
>1117586745.420100.172010@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups .com, "Mr. Boy"
><mrboy77@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Rick Slackware does not use GRUB it uses Lilo....
>>
>> you might want to boot your box with a slackware CD, and then hit lilo
>> -u to uninstall it from the master boot record ...
>>
>
>It must be a leftover from another distro. I have tried a couple but the
>problem started with the failed install of Slack.

In your original article you stated,

"This is not a happy thing since no installable Linux version
recognizes my wireless set up and I relied on Windoze to
download and burn Linux ISOs. Anybody have a suggestion?"

If that is entirely true, the fix is to wipe Windows off your disk
and do a regular Slackware installation, which will cure your boot
time problems.

Then it is almost a certainty that we can also get your wireless
up and running. I'm not sure what the latest Slackware distribution
comes with, but latest versions of ndiswrapper and the wireless tools
are easily available on the net if Slack doesn't have the latest (and
it probably does).

You simply install them and use ndiswrapper to install the very same
ndis wireless driver you use for your existing Windows. Bingo, you
then have Linux with a wireless on you laptop, with no space wasted
for Windows.

What chip set is the wireless in your Toshiba? With any luck it is
a Broadcom, but others work well too.

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