Wi-Fi not detected

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I'll let Jerry (or others) handle wifi issue because I don't know why it works in Mint and not LL.


Just a heads-up on installing either of them (or both) on same drive as Win XP.  Assuming XP partitions currently occupy the whole disk, you'll need to make room for the Linux install.  The installer can do that to a certain extent, but it is safer to do ahead of time using Windows-based tools.

• First, defrag the drive.
  
• Then shrink the partition that has most free space available in it, which will probably be your (C drive unless you have it set-up to use a (D drive for data.
  
• If drive already has 4 primary partitions, you won't be able to create new Linux partitions without first eliminating one of the existing partitions.  (Don't think this is commonly run into with XP installations, but if that is your situation and you're not sure how to proceed, post here or on Mint forums for guidance before you attempt installing.)
  
• I'm not familiar with XP, so not sure if its disk management section allows you to shrink partitions or not.  If it does, go ahead and try using that.  If not, an easy-to-use tool is MiniTool Partition Wizard.
  
• Don't make any partitions for Linux while in Windows or with MiniTool -- just leave the free space unformatted.  Depending on what type of install you end up choosing to do, you can either let the LL/Mint installer make the partitions automatically or you can do it manually yourself during the install process using the built-in partitioning tools for either distro.