3 Wireless Adapters Later And No Luck Please Help
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3 Wireless Adapters Later And No Luck Please Help
Hi there I am new to Linux as a whole, and recently put Linux Mint on my laptop, but after I installed it, I realized that my wireless card doesn't work. Ok no big deal ill just run down to my local computer store and pick up a linux supported wirelss adapter. I get home, plug it in, and it doesn't work, 2 more trips and I still have yet to find a wireless adapter that works. So please, what wireless adapter do you know for sure works and can you link me to where I can buy it?
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Re: 3 Wireless Adapters Later And No Luck Please Help
go for the older usb type wireless adapter.
- mine is a Netgear WG111v2 - from eBay
the newer Netgear WN111v2 is also available.
another is the Ralink RT2870 usb type wireless adapter.
- mine is a Netgear WG111v2 - from eBay
the newer Netgear WN111v2 is also available.
another is the Ralink RT2870 usb type wireless adapter.
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Re: 3 Wireless Adapters Later And No Luck Please Help
What brand and model computer? Is there a wifi switch that is off, is wifi enabled in BIOS? With a card in the computer, open a terminal window and enterTheWhitestKnight wrote:Hi there I am new to Linux as a whole, and recently put Linux Mint on my laptop, but after I installed it, I realized that my wireless card doesn't work. Ok no big deal ill just run down to my local computer store and pick up a linux supported wirelss adapter. I get home, plug it in, and it doesn't work, 2 more trips and I still have yet to find a wireless adapter that works. So please, what wireless adapter do you know for sure works and can you link me to where I can buy it?
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lshw -c net
Re: 3 Wireless Adapters Later And No Luck Please Help
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lshw -c net
came back with this also the latptop is an Asus X550C and the wireless adapter im trying to use currently is a Panda PAU06
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 28:e3:47:1b:14:6d
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.13.0-37-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 memory:f7d00000-f7d7ffff memory:f7d80000-f7d8ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0.2
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.2
logical name: eth0
version: 0a
serial: d8:50:e6:df:0c:77
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8411-1_0.0.3 06/18/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:44 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@3:2
logical name: wlan3
serial: 7c:dd:90:82:27:b6
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=3.13.0-37-generic firmware=0.29 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
WARNING: output may be incomplete or inaccurate, you should run this program as super-user.
Re: 3 Wireless Adapters Later And No Luck Please Help
You are in luck as this is a known issue with asus and even that model. The fix is Reboot and use the keyboard combo to enable wireless if it doesn't work and shows yes for blocks on wifi
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echo options asus_nb_wmi wapf=4" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/asus_nb.conf
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rfkill list all