Help???

[jlgverrier]

Hello all.

I am very new to linux mint, having changed over from windows in november. I have a dated evesham laptop that i have installed mint onto, it seems to work but i am unable to get wireless working, i have connected to the internet through cabling but so far no luck with wireless, i had 3 different belkin cards, 2 did nt work at all, 1 found the internet but never actually connected so i treated myself to a netgear N300 and that does nt work either. I have tried to use ndiswrapper but i find the whole thing impossible, i do not understand all the commands you guys suggest, or the book i bought about Linux Mint. Please please someone help my before i pull the last remaining strands of hair from my head.

James

[seeley]

Hi James!
First we should know some details. Please open a Terminal / Konsole and type:

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lsb_release -rd

l is a lower case "L" like list.
Choose Code in your "POST A REPLY",
copy and paste the output between the two pairs of [] [] brackets - to format and better read it.
Then:

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iwconfig

seeley

[jlgverrier]

hi seeley

i am unable to access the internet on the comp in question, so i am unable to copy the details you request.

[jlgverrier]

lsb_release -rd

description:Linux Mint 9 Isadora
Release: 9

[jlgverrier]

iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.

I hope this helps

[seeley]

Hi!
If "iwconfig" does not show more, then there is a big problem.
Let's see, if

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ifconfig

shows a hardware address.
seeley

[jlgverrier]

ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:d0:7e:53:3a
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
colllisions:0 txqueuelen: 1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt: 16 Base address:0x2300

lo Link encap:local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inent addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:336 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:336 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:25368 (25.3 KB) TX bytes:25368 (25.3KB)

I hope this helps, sorry for the delay in my replys.

[seeley]

Hi!
As you see, there is a hardware address (eth0/ Ethernet/ cable): 00:40:d0:7e:53:3a, but no address for wireless (e.g. eth1 or wlan0);
it is a hardware problem - sorry, that i can't give further help.
seeley

[jlgverrier]

ok Seeley, thank you very much for your help, i will keep looking