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Originally Posted by dope540
yeah, 25-30 is rather large.
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Can you not also remove many of the apps that are taking up so much space in WinXP, and then defrag afterward, significantly reducing the consumed space?
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Originally Posted by dope540
the wireless card built in wiht teh laptop is a Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN. there is also a manual wireless switch near the mouse pointer where i can manually choose to have it on or off.
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Just saying "Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN" is insufficient to ensure compatibility. There is more than one broadcom.
Can you boot to a liveCD, then open a gnome-terminal / konsole in the liveCD, and type:
su -c lspci
and look for your broadcom device entry. Copy the specific part of that wlan entry here. (not the entire lspci).
Sometimes, wireless devices are treated as a usb by the laptop, in which case you my need to try:
lsusb
and if "lsusb" is not found, then first install in the liveCD (it will go to ram) "usbutils" and then try:
lsusb
and again, post the wireless info.
Its also possible your winXP gives more information than just "Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN" ... i'm not a winXP user, so I can say that for certain.