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Hello! I am new to the Linux word... so new!! I researched a lot and I saw that Mint was one of the best distros. I installed it. While trying to install my Wireless Card's drivers I went to many forums and none of them worked, but I think that while I was doing that, I messed up a couple of things of my distro. For example, I uninstalled the ndiswrapper, and when I try to install it again it doesnt let me, its giving me errors every time I try to install something after I compile it. I want to know if there is a way for me to reinstall Mint or at least put it in the previous state as when I installed it. I tried putting the LiveCD and install it in top of my current installation but it gave me an error. If anybody has a better solution than reinstalling Mint, my Wireless Card is an atheros ar5007eg. I have a Toshiba Satellite L305D-S5881 with Windows Vista as the other operative system. Thanks

What errors are you getting when trying to install ndiswrapper. It is in the repos, so you should be able to install it with the package manager without compiling anything. The driver for your card is already in /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/drivers/Atheros_AR5007eg after installation. The native ath_pci driver doesn't work. Once you get ndiswrapper installed, Go to Menu>Administration>Windows Wireless Drivers. When it asks for the driver, navigate to this folder and select the net5211.inf file. Then you have to edit a couple of files. Open a terminal and run Then add ndiswrapper to the end of the file and save it. Then run Then add to the end of this file and save it. Then go to Menu>Administration>Hardware Drivers and uncheck ath_pci. After a reboot, you should have wireless. Just click on the network manager icon to select a connection.

Without knowing what else you have tried, it is hard to say. Post the output of from a terminal so I can see if there are any other modules messing with ndiswrapper.

I see the r8169 module is being loaded. That is for Realtek cards. Are you sure it is really ar5007eg? Post the output of from a terminal.

What is the output of

I have to ask. Does your laptop have a switch for the wireless?