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3 Wireless Adapters Later And No Luck Please Help

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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

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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.
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Re: 3 Wireless Adapters Later And No Luck Please Help

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TheWhitestKnight 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?
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 enter

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lshw -c net
and post the results
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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.
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Re: 3 Wireless Adapters Later And No Luck Please Help

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You are in luck as this is a known issue with asus and even that model. The fix is

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echo options asus_nb_wmi wapf=4" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/asus_nb.conf
Reboot and use the keyboard combo to enable wireless if it doesn't work and

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rfkill list all
shows yes for blocks on wifi
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