I have an old desktop - 7 years old - without a wifi card and without access to a physical internet connection. Instead of upgrading from 11.04 to 12.04, I had to do a fresh install of 12.04 due to some broken packages that I wasn't able to find. I have a wifi dongle, but it's for a Windows OS.
I have a netbook with a wifi card, so I've been able to download the deb packages and transfer them to the desktop. I've been installing the deb packages and supporting libraries for Wine one-by-one in the Terminal so that I can download the wifi driver and have internet on this desktop. Except that I'm unable to install the kmod deb. I get the message that doing so will break the module-init-tools, and that auto-deconfigure might help.
But I can't find anywhere how to uninstall module-init-tools, or overwrite them with kmod, or just break the packages, or how to use auto-deconfigure. Not in any fashion that I understand, anyway. I'm newbie to intermediate.
Thank you for any help you can provide.
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tool in the Ask Ubuntu editing toolbar, so it appears correctly.) If you have an Ethernet cable and your netbook has an Ethernet port, you may simply be able to share its Internet connection..deb
packages to the Internet-disconnected machine, you should also be able to move text tiles from the Internet-connected machine.