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I had to reinstall the operating system on my Thinkpad laptop and decided to install Linux Mint on it instead of Windows 8 or 10, the operating systems that were previously installed on it.The installation of the Linux distribution wentfine. Will re-explore mint in future. Couldn’t get my wireless to work. Despite it working with other Linux’s out there. So will retry later on in October when I’m laid off gave up for now. Tried mint out and it seems best choice.
Bbest choice is irrelevant if I cant get it on the network or to internet.laptop was a vista32 os on a 64bit laptop (school did that, not me). Got laptop per rubyonrails classes.Had hoped to put win7 or win10 on it. But since it was vista. I couldn’t.So Linux was a choice because I want to put to mjor emulations under it that I have stored on my NAS that would be moved to the new laptop both emulations one game related (mame) and other rubyrelated (currently on both window and a older Linux laptop). Would be worth it.fortunately I don’t really care what Linux distro I use. And I’m more about doing perl and basic Linux cmdline stuff than much else.
How to get Wifi working in Linux Mint after installation by Martin Brinkmann on March 27, 2015 in Linux - Last Update: January 04, 2018 - 88 comments I had to reinstall the operating system on my Thinkpad laptop and decided to install Linux Mint on it instead of Windows 8 or 10, the operating systems that were previously installed on it. If you have any wifi driver problem on your PC then you have to download the Latest wifi driver for your PC. If you want to download the Realtek wifi driver for windows 10 then flow the download link which is available at the bottom of this page. If you have any problem then must inform me because I will try to resolve your problem. Linfox wifi adapter combo. The adapter uses a 3070 driver and is plug and play on Linux Lite. Just attach the antenna cable and usb cable.
So I may very well temporarily try a lesser mint ie; not as minty.ha. Software engineers think complexity is equal to intelligence. It is, they are correct, but intelligence doesnt matter at all what-so-ever, level of consciousness and wisdom matter. Simplicity is equal to high level of consciousness. High level of consciousness is faaaar harder to come by than high level of intellect. The best explanation Ive ever heard of intelligence, is that ‘intelligence is like a weapon, some people have a cannon, some have a automatic rifle, some have a shotgun, and some even have a tiny lil.22 caliber pistol but having the weapon means nothing if you shoot it randomly in dark, yes you might get lucky a few more times with a cannon than a.22 pistol but someone who knows how to use their.22 caliber pistol will be beat the guy who doesn’t know how to use his cannon almost every time.’ People that make things simpler are people with high levels of consciousness. Useful information, thanks.
For a long time, I had problems with various Linux distros when testing them using a Live USB. Many distros, such as the ultra-fast booting Slax, consistently failed to locate wireless.Mint was the one distro that worked–I’ve never had a problem on any computer–laptop or desktop–with the wireless connection and Mint. Oddly enough, a fresh install of Windows requires so much user input and additional driver installs that I find myself “begging” customers to use Linux Mint. Mint even offers and installs any dedicated graphics card drivers needed. Martin, the Linux Mint installation media contains a wide selection of drivers. That’s why they became available when you reinserted the USB drive. During installation Linux Mint will attempt to get needed drivers from the Internet if they are not on the installation media.
Of course, this couldn’t happen because you were not connected to the net. If you had been able to use a wired connection temporarily most likely the problem would not have occurred. It’s what’s called “The Chicken and the Egg dilemma”.:-). Ha, I have a Broadcom modem, too, Martin, (Dell Inspiron 1545) and when I installed Mint a couple of months ago, I had to go wired at first, and then Google the problem to find the right terminal command to update my firmware. That was the only snag I had.
And yes, I should have paid attention to the usb live “try mode”, but didn’t! I came over from Kubuntu where I didn’t have that problem (amazing, since Mint is supposed to have a better driver selection). If you want any suggestions on apps to help maintain your kernel, please let me know! I’ll be happy to help!:). I just installed Mint as a dual OS with Win7. It says I’m connected to the network, but can’t access the internet.
Chose my router/connection, entered the password, says signal strength is 90-something percent, but when I open browser or try to install an app (from software manager), they both say I’m not connected to the internet. Even during installation, it said I wasn’t connected, even though I connected via hard wire per installation instructions. Reboot to Win 7 & access internet. Reboot to Mint No go!
This is my VERY first interaction with Linux whatsoever The forums won’t load for me to get help, and everything else I find online is so technical that I can’t follow instructions. And this isn’t the first page I’ve asked this question, but it seems NOBODY answers questions!!!. I do love the Plug-n-play functionality Windows offers; however it does come with a lot of bloat.I tried several quick Live Linux versions on my Lenovo Flex 3 and none of them could detect the Wi-Fi. Personally I don’t find this off-putting as when I wanted to learn Windows when 3.1 came out, I dove in and learned by fixing. So, now that my UNIX skills have atrophied to the point of unrecognizability, I wiped Win 10 and put Linux Mint on. No Wi-Fi; heck, doesn’t even recognize the device (Qualcom, but doesn’t display in Driver Manager).But hey, I’ll figure it out with help from the community, and learning is half the fun.Thanks for the article, really enjoyed it and found it informative. This is just a suggestion, I have not had to do this.
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If you don’t have internet access on a Linux Mint computer, but have access to a Windows pc, go to packages.linuxmint dot com (if you have Linux Mint). Go to your version, eg, Linux Mint Rosa 17.3, click on this, you will get a list of packages, head down to mintwifi package, click on source directory, then download latest version.
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I hope this works for you, as I say, I haven’t done it. (It would be worth a try?).
Transfer to a spare usb stick (format it to fat32 first), just cut and paste to eg, your downloads folder in Mint. It is a.deb file, (latest one),so double-click on it. I’m guessing then you would go to Menu, type in Device Manager and you should be able to go from there. I hope this helps. (Do this with whatever your version, eg, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, I see that 18 is listed as well). Update: my solution is ‘nutty’ – you still need to get drivers and the computer is offline. Try Martin’s method, and if you still have problems and have access to another computer and have Broadcom as some commenters said, try: cects dot com/bcm 4311-mint 16-nowireless-nointernet/ and also do a search for community.linuxmint dot com ‘how to install Broadcom b43 wireless driver without internet/offline”.
(Also look at comments there). If you need a different driver, substitute it and search (driver name) wireless driver without internet install offline in Linux (distro), etc. Try your distro support page, and keep searching.
It is worth it. Thanks a lot for the tip!:)I had a problem after selecting those driver options because apparently I needed Internet access to enable my Internet accessSo I just connected an Ethernet cable. to my home’s router to establish a wired connection.Afterwards I was able to select these driver options and problem solved! Now I have access ro WiFi.Hope this helps others that are having the same problem I did.If you don’t have an Ethernet cabe it’s a good option to buy one and keep it just in case.
Plus you can search for “making an Ethernet cable” in youtube, to DIY, it’s super easy. Got a new laptop, HP notebook 15-ay129nd, and installed Mint 18.1. I just read an article that said that while Apple is clearly a VERY successful company, they seldom “get there first;” instead, they take a good idea (recognizing which ones are good is probably tougher than it may sound) and make it “enough better” to warrant doubling the price.My point is that LINUX is “the better way” for many people and orgs but far from all.
There are obviously onerous limits on development when talent is volunteered and QC is very, very tough. Still, “open source” just might attract – even in 2017 – some talented individual or team to tackle this issue.
I’m no engineer, but if one inserts something (in my case a “dongle” that provides, via Windows, WIFI capability), recognizing that there’s a new something can’t be that difficult. Even if the software stopped at a point where you’re told to go to XYZ website to download something, that would be a big improvement over what appears to be the case (I just upgraded to MINT 18 in the hope that the latest would be the greatest or at least greater) currently.Still, this is/was a fine post – somehow, a pretty big sounding “driver” (Intel CPU) was un-bulleted.
I have to think that there might be some improvement (not WIFI, alas) now that I bulleted it and rebooted. Jaap, I hope this helps you. Go to help.ubuntu.com, go to section ‘b43 – No Internet Access’ – get the binary deb package from Launchpad, double click on the package to install, then go for the b43 (14.04 Trusty Tahr) link, then follow instructions.
(I’m thinking the Trusty Tahr link because you would have a later version of Mint. Do a search if unsure to see if your version of Mint is compatible with Trusty Tahr, eg, is Mint 17.3 compatible with Trusty Tahr 14.04).Restart after you have done this, then see if wifi comes up. Sudo ufw enable, then update and upgrade.
I have like 2 laptops and both of them got broadcom. And I spend like 4 hours EVERY time I install an OS on them to get the wifi to work – and usually the problem is the following:Theres 3 drivers available and only 1 works; once you install the wrong driver it gets complicated to actually remove it – so you might as well reinstall the OS.If a driver doesn’t work – please don’t make it available and please don’t recommend it. That’s equivalent to vandalism.It’s eaten up over 10 hours of my life – in crucial moments when I could’ve spent the time better.I’d rather have NO DRIVER AT ALL than that stress.