Linux and my laptop

[andruoid]

Well, very odd, before going to my provider's gateway/router solution I could not connect wirelessly. For kicks I just booted my Trisquel 4.5.1 disk and ran it in Live mode. I entered the SSID and it immediately connected. With the old router I tried via the Live disk and a real install. Damn ...computers eh?

So now the issue is, getting Silverlight (aka Moonlight in Linux) to work with the labsims that are in my courses. Even the nightly builds haven't caught up enough to work. Maybe Wine... but I don't have the time atm to tear my system apart just to see if it can work.

 

[SUroot]

Have you tried installing silverlight with wine? I only installed 2 windows apps with wine. 1 worked and 1 didnt. 50% hit rate but too few attempts for it to be accurate

 

[baillou2]

Perhaps you could also install windows as a virtual machine. Then again RAM intense apps don't do well in vm environments. I use an old copy of xp for one application (final draft) and it works great.

 

[andruoid]

I made the effort of trying to get Silverlight working with Linux today (no luck). I installed Mint 11 then the following;

Moonlight (nightly build) plugin for the native Firefox
then
Installed Wine and Firefox inside, then install Silverlight
then
VMWare 7.1 (school's 1 year trial) and my OEM Win7 puked and actually locked up Mint 11 ...never, have I seen that happen.

So, reloaded my recent Win7 image and was back up and running in 35min. I had to revert quickly due to my study and therefore not having the time I would have liked to trouble-shoot more. 4 more months then I'll kick W7 off and no more SL. ;-)

All this just to try and run LabSimOnline's Silverlight-based course (which supplements the program I am taking). I wrote them some time ago asking why they use SL, especially when they are also offering Linux+ training ...standard reply; we are working on other methods to view our course-ware.