Recently installed 32-bit linux mint 11 (Katya), on a Sony Vaio VGN-N21E laptop.
I am unfamiliar with Linux, but so far I really like it. Only thing is I am having problems with my wireless, I've already done a (reasonably intensive) sweep of the forum/google and yet haven't found any successful solutions. However I hope with your help it shouldn't be a major problem.
So I can connect to wired alright, and every so often the wifi connects, but the connection is sporadic and requires to be close to the hot spot (in the rare times when it does work). Often I need to reboot and it will connect again, but only for about half an hour before cutting out. I've been led to believe this is a problem with the wireless driver (but possibly I'm wrong).
So here are some details:
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vanya@vanya-VGN-N21E-W ~ $ inxi -N lspci lsusb
Network: Card-1 Atheros AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter driver ath5k
Card-2 Marvell 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller driver sky2
vanya@vanya-VGN-N21E-W ~ $ Code: Select all
vanya@vanya-VGN-N21E-W ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"Eleanor's speedy network"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1F:1F:A6:7D:7F
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=52/70 Signal level=-58 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:27 Missed beacon:0
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:a9:81:3e:a5
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:16
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:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2880 (2.8 KB) TX bytes:2880 (2.8 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:7d:0e:74:26
inet addr:192.168.2.102 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::219:7dff:fe0e:7426/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:516 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:183 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:100634 (100.6 KB) TX bytes:38382 (38.3 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.2.1
Address: 192.168.2.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 209.85.143.99
Name: google.com
Address: 209.85.143.104 Thanks,
Vanya