So, last night I got a package of Unbuntu live and install Cd's. I ran down to my room, popped in the live CD, and liked it.

Tried to figure out this partition thing, and was having a lot of trouble when installing unbuntu on a partition, so I gave up, and just let it erase everything on my hard drive.

So, now I have Unbuntu. Popped in the linksys CD to install the drivers for my wireless router, and nothing happened. After looking into it, I found out why. Linux doesn't run ".exe". The setup on the CD is an exe.

I looked into how to remedy this. I found wine. All I had to do was go to this one site and download it from my linux box. One problem, I cant install router to get internet in the first place.

I decided to just go back to windows for now. So, I get the restore CD, and see it says "2 Of 2". Hm, where is "1 Of 2"? I popped the CD in, and get an error every time. It aborts, opens the tray, and restarts.

I have no idea what to do now. I guess I need the first disk to restore my computer, but I don't have it. The only solution I can think of for now is to install my wireless router, and use linux. But I need to know how. Can anyone help me?

you don't need no drivers for a router... when your lan or wlan card is installed succesfully, it's all what's necessary... you can config your router by accessing it with your webbrowser, surfing @ http://192.168.1.1 (or something else, you will find this url in de quick manual)

When I do that, I get:

192.168.1.1 could not be found. Please check the name and try again.

Any thoughts?

It may be 192.168.0.1, and the default router password is usually 'linksys' or 'admin'

Thanks, tried them both. Neither work. Linksys support said there is no driver for linux. That hurts.

Emachines says restore CDs are 20$. Thath hurts too.

Anyone have a less painful method?