ps: if I put my LiveCD back in and run it, the wifi works perfectly.
Latest news: In terminal, if I run "sudo modprobe rt61pci" the wifi activates immediately, but when I reboot I have to run this command again. Somehow wifi has been de-activated by default????
The code below is before I activate it with the above command.
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gary@gary-MS-6309 ~ $ inxi -Nn
Network: Card-1: Ralink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
IF: N/A state: N/A mac: N/A
Card-2: National Semiconductor DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller driver: natsemi
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:09:5b:e2:af:bf
gary@gary-MS-6309 ~ $
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gary@gary-MS-6309 ~ $ mintwifi
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Ralink corp. RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g
==> PCI ID = 1814:0302
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:09:5b:e2:af:bf
inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::209:5bff:fee2:afbf/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6008 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5788 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5695841 (5.6 MB) TX bytes:759443 (759.4 KB)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x2000
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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:11605 (11.6 KB) TX bytes:11605 (11.6 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
[sudo] password for gary:
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.0.1
Address: 192.168.0.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.237.200
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.237.197
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.237.195
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.237.194
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.237.206
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.237.196
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.237.199
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.237.198
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.237.201
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.237.192
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.237.193
gary@gary-MS-6309 ~ $