-- Posted by yoshiness at 10:13 pm on Sep. 13, 2008 I installed Debian on my dad's laptop, and it didn't want to initialize wireless. I don't know how to get wireless to work, so... Any recommendations on a Linux distribution that will support wireless? The laptop came with Windows 98 SE preinstalled, but no recovery disk. This computer I'm on came with a recovery disk, but only specifically for this computer. -- Posted by TBMP at 10:14 pm on Sep. 13, 2008 go install XP whatever you do, do NOT install Vista. -- Posted by yoshiness at 10:15 pm on Sep. 13, 2008 Quote: from TBMP at 10:14 pm on Sep. 13, 2008 go install XP whatever you do, do NOT install Vista. I only have XP as an upgrade. ;_; -- Posted by rocker111 at 10:18 pm on Sep. 13, 2008 Quote: from TBMP at 12:14 am on Sep. 14, 2008 go install XP whatever you do, do NOT install Vista. -- Posted by espresso8097 at 10:26 pm on Sep. 13, 2008 Did you try getting Ndiswrapper and installing the windows wireless drivers through that? LinuxMint has Ndiswrapper pre-installed if you can't figure out installing it (not hard, but if...).  Wireless can always be a challenge with Linux.