networking disabled on laptop running ubuntu 16.10

[Colin Law]

On 11 November 2016 at 10:09, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 09:16:45 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
> >On 2016-11-11 08:20, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> It might be that you need to enable Wifi with Windows
> >> software. Apart from this, is LAN enabled by the BIOS settings?
> >
> >As I wrote several times, both wifi and ethernet work from windows.
>
> I'm not an expert for all those hybride Windows options. Perhaps they
> don't harm regarding access to LAN hardware ...
>
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 08:42:50 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
> >Copy the output to a file and save that in the windows partition (which
> >should be available from Ubuntu).
>
> ... but this could be impossible, as long as the Windows shutdown
> isn't a real shutdown, see
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/
> 2016-March/010629.html
>
> I don't know if Windows 8 does behave different to Windows 10, since I'm
> using Linux. Those who use multi-boots with Windows, need to care about
> dual-boot issues.
>

That's worth knowing, thanks Ralf.  My windows boot, kept for occasional
use of (non-internet facing) s/w that will not run with Wine is still XP so
I was not aware of that issue.

Colin
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