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i did a fresh install of mint 13 maya on an old acer aspire 1680, with a intel 2200bg wireless adaptor

i ran mintWifi has request by a pinned topic here's the result

the wireless worked in windows before a did the fresh install, and if i try to "activated" it with the button on the front of the laptop the light of wifi blinks once and thats it



alexandre@alexandre-Aspire-1680 ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py[sudo] password for alexandre:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
==> PCI ID = 8086:4220 (rev 05)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"\x95\xAA\x82\xCAlI\xAE\x90\xCD\x16h\xBA\xACz\xA6\xF2\xB4\xA8\xCA\x99\xB2\xC27*\xCB\x08\xCFa\xC9\xC3\x80^"
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:c0:9f:70:94:4f
inet addr:192.168.1.110 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:fe70:944f/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:322576 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:178369 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:482614120 (482.6 MB) TX bytes:13681385 (13.6 MB)
Interrupt:6

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:35:97:55:a7
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000 Memory:e0208000-e0208fff

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:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1573 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1573 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:129408 (129.4 KB) TX bytes:129408 (129.4 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload

Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.35
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.33
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.38
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.37
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.34
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.40
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.41
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.39
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.36
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.46
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.228.32

did a few trick explain here,

was tired close the laptop and when the wife tryed it 5 min later, its works

who knows