Been asking very nicely and politely but still have no wireless. I tried Mint. Had to mess about quite a lot to get the thing to dual boot and then spent a very long time mucking about with the wireless. Eventually followed some instructions I found as a result of asking nicely and hey, it worked, I had wireless. Downside was that every time I tried to open a programme the computer crashed. Did this twice, reloading Mint messing about with partsions which still seem a bit like black magic to me.
Still asking very nicely Ubuntu seemed to be a more popular version with lots more support information. So I removed Mint played with black magic again and loaded Ubuntu ... really ugly and horrid colours compaired with Mint. Yet again struggled to get the thing to dual boot and yes sod's law comes into play ... no wireless. I've got more instructions to try but don't at the moment have the time to do it.
Quite enjoy messing around like this but it's a bit like a blind man navigating the labyrinths.
Don't worry I'm only there for the Saturday and promise not to bring it up.
