Use Wine for Drivers?
 

Hello, I am looking to install a linux distro (probably Ubuntu) on my computer. Would I be able to use Wine to install the software/drivers that came with my wireless card to make it work with linux? Sorry if this has been asked/covered, but I'm in a rush out and would like to know if this is doable as soon as I can.

No, that isn't doable. If you need to get your wireless working, you can use your windows drivers with ndiswrapper or use a Linux native driver.

HTH

Forrest

Wine is for running some windows programs on linux NOT setting up drivers, Ubuntu should have everything you need. I've heard good things with openSuse and laptops also.

there is now a autondiswrapper program that automatically downloads the driver and installs it.

it is at beta version at the moment but sound promising.

try:
http://easylinuxwifi.org/

Thanks you so much! I had just given up hope on installing a linux distro too.