[SOLVED]No wifi since upgrade to Mint 17 kde

[Mikro]

I should probably print these instructions for use later. Which commands would I use if wired to the router?

[JeremyB]

I should probably print these instructions for use later. Which commands would I use if wired to the router?

You shouldn't need any internet to do it if you stay with the 3.13.0-* kernels and it might work with others
Just have to

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cd ~/Desktop/backports-3.16-1

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make defconfig-rtlwifi

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make

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sudo make install

I just had to do this for my LM13 laptop that I put an Intel 7260 card into and I updated the kernel this morning

[Mikro]

Should I just save (print) the instruction you gave me for doing the fix while wired to the router directly?

[JeremyB]

Should I just save (print) the instruction you gave me for doing the fix while wired to the router directly?

I would save them in a text file just in case you do need them again, call it wifi-fix.txt or whatever

[Timbot2000]

Hi Jeremy B, could you help me out?

make defconfig-rtlwifi

is now returning an error

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/--------------
| Your kernel headers are incomplete/not installed.
| Please install kernel headers, including a .config
| file or use the KLIB/KLIB_BUILD make variables to
| set the kernel to build against, e.g.
|   make KLIB=/lib/modules/3.1.7/
| to compile/install for the installed kernel 3.1.7
| (that isn't currently running.)
\--
make: *** [defconfig-rtlwifi] Error 1

Any way to recify this...right now I'm tethering wifi through my phone

[JeremyB]

Hi Jeremy B, could you help me out?

make defconfig-rtlwifi

is now returning an error

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/--------------
| Your kernel headers are incomplete/not installed.
| Please install kernel headers, including a .config
| file or use the KLIB/KLIB_BUILD make variables to
| set the kernel to build against, e.g.
|   make KLIB=/lib/modules/3.1.7/
| to compile/install for the installed kernel 3.1.7
| (that isn't currently running.)
\--
make: *** [defconfig-rtlwifi] Error 1

Any way to recify this...right now I'm tethering wifi through my phone

You might want to follow the instructions from this post- http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 85#p937262

[Timbot2000]

Well, that I did...but the procedure failed at the defconfig as noted...So not sure what is wrong since I do not know which pieces parts are missing from the setup

[JeremyB]

Well, that I did...but the procedure failed at the defconfig as noted...So not sure what is wrong since I do not know which pieces parts are missing from the setup

I am not sure what the cause is, what version of LM are you using and what kernel?