I've installed Mint17 32bit Cinnamon onto a 10yr old Toshiba Satellite Pro with an INPROCOMM wireless LAN card.
I've managed to install the WinXP drivers via NDISwrapper and its driver is installed.
However and after a lot of digging around in this forum, in order to enable WiFi I need to do the following:
$ sudo ndiswrapper -l ( confirms driver installed and WiFi device is recognized. The ndisgtk app also sees the driver and confirms installation. )
$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
$ sudo ifup wlan0
The latter gives message: Ignoring unknown interface wlan0=wlan0
Then, the WiFi connects and comes to life.
How can this be automated? It's my Dad's laptop and he'll never manage to run these terminal commands all the time, once I return it for a Win-free future for it.
Ethernet connection is fine, but I need wireless preferrably.
This may also be linked to the netbook's slow / hung shut-down so I'm hopeful that both problems are related.
Wi-Fi has to be manually enabled - what config? SOLVED
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Wi-Fi has to be manually enabled - what config? SOLVED
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---And I thought Windows 7 file structure was complicated .... Ignorance was bliss. But surviving on an old Dell Dim 3100 32-bit desktop (17.2 to 19.3 MATE) and an ASUS EeePC 64-bit XFCE.
automatically load ndiswrapper at startup: how-to
I wonder if some of this wiki would be of help to you?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... t_start-up
As ndiswrapper seems to work when prodded, I wonder if it can be automated to start.............at start-up .............
If the alchemy of this post is to be believed..................adding the word
Open the file with
..............do as above;
after editing, SAVE and CLOSE
any joy?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiD ... t_start-up
As ndiswrapper seems to work when prodded, I wonder if it can be automated to start.............at start-up .............
If the alchemy of this post is to be believed..................adding the word
to the file /etc/modules will workndiswrapper
Open the file with
gksudo gedit /etc/modules
..............do as above;
after editing, SAVE and CLOSE
any joy?
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Captain Contours
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Re: Wi-Fi has to be manually enabled - what config?
Much joy !!! 
Many thanks.
As I am having to learn about linux from scratch, it's a case of either spending hours trawling the 'net for solutions and/or knowing when and where to ask.
For anyone else with similar problems, there are a few you.tube tutorials out there. These can be very informative indeed but may now be out of date if they were based on earlier ubuntu versions.
In my case, Mint 17 did not have the same .conf files setup as those on the tutorial, so for a while, I was going round in circles.
Installing ndiswrapper-dkms, ndiswrapper-source and ndisgtk got my driver.INF file installed.
It just needed the final tweak, as above, to get it fully configured.
Many thanks.
As I am having to learn about linux from scratch, it's a case of either spending hours trawling the 'net for solutions and/or knowing when and where to ask.
For anyone else with similar problems, there are a few you.tube tutorials out there. These can be very informative indeed but may now be out of date if they were based on earlier ubuntu versions.
In my case, Mint 17 did not have the same .conf files setup as those on the tutorial, so for a while, I was going round in circles.
Installing ndiswrapper-dkms, ndiswrapper-source and ndisgtk got my driver.INF file installed.
It just needed the final tweak, as above, to get it fully configured.
---And I thought Windows 7 file structure was complicated .... Ignorance was bliss. But surviving on an old Dell Dim 3100 32-bit desktop (17.2 to 19.3 MATE) and an ASUS EeePC 64-bit XFCE.
automatically load ndiswrapper at startup: it works
that's great; hopefully it will all work smoothly for your dad