WIFI

[Aiden]

Ok everything I'm VERY new to Linux and was turned onto it by a friend.

I installed Mint 64bit Cinnamon to my old Dell Inspiron. Everything is working good except I have no options for wifi. Is there certain drivers that need installed or something?

[Pjotr]

Please generate an overview of your system like this:
- launch a terminal window and make it fullscreen, to avoid chopped lines;
- copy/paste this command into the terminal:

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inxi -Fxz

if you type: the letter F is a capital letter

Press Enter.

Copy/paste the output in your next message.

[Aiden]

System: Host: Aidenscomp Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.13 Distro: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Machine: System: Dell product: Inspiron 1501
Mobo: Dell model: 0UW744 Bios: Dell version: 2.4.1 date: 05/30/2006
CPU: Dual core AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile TL-56 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 svm) bmips: 6399.82
Clock Speeds: 1: 1600.00 MHz 2: 1600.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RS482M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200] bus-ID: 01:05.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RS480 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.16.0-38-generic
Network: Card: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX driver: b44 ver: 2.0 bus-ID: 08:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 120.0GB (4.3% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD1200BEVS size: 120.0GB
Partition: ID: / size: 109G used: 4.8G (5%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 2.01GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 160 Uptime: 2 min Memory: 351.0/1874.1MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.11) inxi: 1.9.17

[JeremyB]

If your wifi is plugged into a USB port post the result of

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lsusb

If it is a PCI(e) check BIOS to see if wireless is enabled there

[Aiden]

The wifi is wireless and what's a PCI(e)?

It doesn't even give me a wifi option under "network connections"

[JeremyB]

PCI(e) would be an internal wifi card

[pouyaj42]

i just install mint on my lenovo thinkpad
and i can connect to my wireless wifi,but only for couple of minutes,and then it shows me the disconnect message and then i can't connect to that wifi anymore until i restart the system...
but when i connect my laptop to modem with wire,everything is fine

[Pjotr]

i just install mint on my lenovo thinkpad
and i can connect to my wireless wifi,but only for couple of minutes,and then it shows me the disconnect message and then i can't connect to that wifi anymore until i restart the system...
but when i connect my laptop to modem with wire,everything is fine

Please don't hijack someone else's thread, but start a new thread of your own....

[Aiden]

If your wifi is plugged into a USB port post the result of

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lsusb

If it is a PCI(e) check BIOS to see if wireless is enabled there

Wireless is indeed turned on in bios but there's no sign of wifi.

[Aiden]

Figured out I don't have a PCI(e) lol.