Running 17.1 on a Dell Inspiron 5160. It will find LAN connection but wifi will not work. I ran the the following form a post by Clem and got the following result:
*********-Inspiron-5160 ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for ***********:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11abg Wireless Network Controller (rev 03)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4324 (rev 03)
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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 00:0f:1f:28:5d:89
inet addr:172.16.100.94 Bcast:172.16.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:1fff:fe28:5d89/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:10001 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5207 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:9017214 (9.0 MB) TX bytes:622229 (622.2 KB)
Interrupt:17
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:450 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:450 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:47769 (47.7 KB) TX bytes:47769 (47.7 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 172.16.30.10
Address: 172.16.30.10#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.46.38
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.46.33
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.46.46
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.46.34
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.46.32
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.46.41
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.46.35
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.46.40
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.46.37
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.46.39
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.46.36
Know it is probably something simple but I am just not seeing it.
Mint 17 and Dell 5160
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Re: Mint 17 and Dell 5160
Driver should be b43 or b43legacy, try b43 first, open a terminal and copy/paste command
Reboot thereafter.
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sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer