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@zerofire I'm sure you must have heard this before... Linux is not Windows. If you want something like what you have in Windows... then use Windows. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that they've used Windows since nth version and are Windows experts... and hence they should be Linux sav...

If I remember correctly all Athlon's and Athlon X2's were 32bit. The requirement would be to have an Athlon 64 or an Athlon 64 X2 for 64bit support.

Lanser Orange is a company in Europe that provides Internet services such as DSL. The dongle is most likely for 3G and DIThompson needs to contact Orange to see if they even have a Linux driver for it.

The problem with Linux is that it is essentially chaos to the nth degree. In each distribution you have the kernel and a huge load of add-ons and thats it. There is no userland to speak of. This is contrary to what BSD and Windows does where they each have their kernels, a specified userland that pr...