wifi wont verifi

[rwg279]

New to Linux and Mint. Need help ive spent two days trying to get my usb wna3100 wifi adapter. Im very new to linux and and want to leave win7 to go to linux. I got the driver to work i think but i cant get this blasted mint authenticate the wifi password. works just fine with win7. Please help.

[rwg279]

please?

[Pjotr]

Please generate an overview of your system like this:
- Launch a terminal window (this is how to launch a terminal window);
- make the terminal window full screen, 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.

[rwg279]

System: Host: Brdmn-PC Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: Cinnamon 2.6.11 Distro: Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela
Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P5QL-CM version: Rev X.0x Bios: American Megatrends version: 0304 date: 08/21/2008
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU E7400 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3) bmips: 11197.2
Clock Speeds: 1: 1603.00 MHz 2: 1603.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF119 [GeForce GT 610] bus-ID: 01:00.0
X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1280x1024@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NVD9 GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1: NVIDIA GF119 HDMI Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Card-2: Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-3: Corsair driver: USB Audio usb-ID: 006-002
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.16.0-38-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 ver: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d800 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Card-2: NetGear WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231] driver: ndiswrapper ver: 1.59 usb-ID: 002-006
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1750.4GB (28.4% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST3250310AS size: 250.1GB
2: id: /dev/sdb model: ST1500DL003 size: 1500.3GB
Partition: ID: / size: 464G used: 4.6G (2%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 4.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 33.0C mobo: 36.0C gpu: 36.0
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 1844 psu: 0 sys-1: 0
Info: Processes: 162 Uptime: 4 min
Memory: 482.4/3952.5MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.11) inxi: 1.9.17

[Pjotr]

Your problem is that you're running that Broadcom wireless chipset on a Windows driver by means of ndiswrapper. Doesn't Driver Manager offer you a Linux driver for it? That should give you much better performance.

And while you're already using Driver Manager: does Driver Manager offer you a closed non-free nvidia driver for your graphics card? If so, install it and reboot.

[rwg279]

How do i do that with no internet to it?

[rwg279]

I installed Mint. It didnt see my wifi so i looked up how to get mine working and i havent even touched anything else. just trying to get internet first.

[Pjotr]

I installed Mint. It didnt see my wifi so i looked up how to get mine working and i havent even touched anything else. just trying to get internet first.

Establish temporary internet connection by means of ethernet (wired).

[rwg279]

I installed Mint. It didnt see my wifi so i looked up how to get mine working and i havent even touched anything else. just trying to get internet first.

Establish temporary internet connection by means of ethernet (wired).

give me another option. because that's not possible

[Pjotr]

Temporary internet by means of a wireless USB dongle that's supported out of the box in Linux?

[rwg279]

ok well i dont have access to a hardline to the internet only wifi. so I have Mint and Win7 dual boot trying to get Mint to authorise a connect that i get perfectly fine as you see from my posts on this forums

[rwg279]

Can someone help me? i can download stuff in Win7 to be installed on Mint... Icant find a fix or anything because im not sure what im looking for. I googled how to get this usb stick to work with mint but now i have this issue.

[JeremyB]

Please read http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... ht=WNA3100

I bought a TP-Link WN722N 150 Mbps USB wifi adapter to use as backup

you can check some things with

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ndiswrapper -l

It should tell you if the device is there and what windows driver is being used

[rwg279]

so linux doesnt work with this. so untill i can afford a different one i cant go to linux... great...