I have a TP-Link wireless pci adapter ( TL-WN851ND ).
Linux Mint 16 seems to detect it as it shows up in lshw and lspci.
But no wireless networks are detected and also the led on the panel of the adapter is off.
Here is the mintWifi output:
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wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 90:2b:34:2f:99:56
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:344 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:344 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:26832 (26.8 KB) TX bytes:26832 (26.8 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 10:fe:ed:67:dc:4f
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Qualcomm Atheros AR9227 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 168c:002d (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...