Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Failed internet connection from Windows…

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Author: James Courtier-Dutton
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Failed internet connection from Windows on dual boot computer
On 19/03/07, hantslug@??? <hantslug@???> wrote:
> Yes - a reinstall is looking like the only option. But that will mean
> reinstalling the Linux OS as well, because this was the box on which I could
> not successfully rewrite Grub. In the end I had to reinstall Linux so that
> it could "see" Windows and install it in Grub for itself. Linux itself is
> running beautifully. This is the second time in 5 weeks that I have had to
> reinstall Linux because of Windows. :-( And I do not intend to go online
> with the Windows partition, even to register it. So any network problems
> will be irrelevant. I just hoped that I was being blind or stupid and that
> one of you would say "Just do this, and all your problems will be solved".
> And the OU helpline was telling me to download something.
>
> Lisi
>


In any event, if you do ever get this working, I would be interested
to hear how you did it.
It does sound to me that there are a number of different, separate
problems, going on here.