I have a refurbished Dell Optiplex GX-620 with Linux Mint Mate 17.3 32-bit installed. There is an ethernet port built onto the mother board but that appears to be dead. I never tried to use it under Windows so I'm not sure if it ever worked. My ethernet cable to my router is a couple days old and works on my laptop so I know the cable is okay. I'm more interested in adding this to my home network via wifi.
First, I downloaded the latest drivers from Netgear for an A6210 USB dongle. This worked quite well under Windows XP and Windows Vista but I'm having a bit of trouble getting it running in Linux Mint 17.3 that I just installed.
I've tried to get as much information as possible in hopes of getting help and hopefully all the terminal commands in the suggestions:
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administrator@administrator ~ $ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: administrator Kernel: 3.19.0-32-generic i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.8.2)
Desktop: MATE 1.12.0 (Gtk 3.10.8~8+qiana) Distro: Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa
Machine: System: Dell product: OptiPlex GX620
Mobo: Dell model: 0FH884 Bios: Dell v: A11 date: 11/30/2006
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (-HT-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3) bmips: 5984
clock speeds: max: 2992 MHz 1: 2992 MHz 2: 2992 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.17.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1680x1050@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945G x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 1.4 Mesa 10.5.9 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller
driver: snd_intel8x0 ports: ec00 e8c0 bus-ID: 00:1e.2
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.19.0-32-generic
Network: Card: NetGear usb-ID: 001-007
IF: null-if-id state: N/A speed: 480 Mbps duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (0.8% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST31000524AS size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 914G used: 4.4G (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 3.75GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 145 Uptime: 1 day Memory: 252.1/3526.6MB Init: Upstart runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.4
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.111) inxi: 2.2.28 I managed to download ndiswrapper from another machine and installed it. I followed the instructions for ndiswrapper and pointed it to the directory which included the .inf and .sys files. These show as RT2870 so I presume it's some type of RealTek technology inside the dongle. ? ? Then I checked to see if it was installed.
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administrator@administrator ~ $ ndiswrapper -l
bcmwlhigh5 : driver installed
rt2870 : driver installed
device (0846:9053) presentThe RT2870 is for the Netgear A6210 wireless dongle appears to be recognized.
In the unlikely event the first driver I loaded was causing a problem, I removed it with:
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administrator@administrator / $ sudo ndiswrapper -r bcmwlhigh5
[sudo] password for administrator:
administrator@administrator / $ ndiswrapper -l
rt2870 : driver installed
device (0846:9053) present
Then I tried mintwifi.
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administrator@administrator ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
rt2870 : driver installed
device (0846:9053) present
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
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:816 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:816 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:65024 (65.0 KB) TX bytes:65024 (65.0 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
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administrator@administrator ~ $ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
administrator@administrator ~ $ ndiswrapper -l
rt2870 : driver installed
device (0846:9053) present
administrator@administrator ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0846:9053 NetGear, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0930:6545 Toshiba Corp. Kingston DataTraveler 102 Flash Drive / HEMA Flash Drive 2 GB / PNY Attache 4GB Stick
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Below are some commands from a different thread on wifi drivers not working.
administrator@administrator ~ $ modprobe ndiswrapper
administrator@administrator ~ $ ndiswrapper -m alias "eth1" >> wlan0
administrator@administrator ~ $ sudo ndiswrapper -mi
module configuration information is stored in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf
administrator@administrator ~ $ sudo ndiswrapper -ma
module configuration information is stored in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf
administrator@administrator ~ $ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.I hope someone can fill in the missing piece as I'd love to get this up and running.
Ke welalin/Thank you very much!
