Acer Aspire 5733 wireless not working

[jedimaster007]

Hi, I really need some help please. I just bought a brand new Acer Aspire 5733 laptop and have installed mint (ver. 10) on it. Its all running really well and I have installed all updates but the only thing I cannot get working is wireless. The laptop has Nplify 802.11b wireless. Any help to get this working would be greatly appreciated.I have spent ages trying to get it working

[dagon]

If you haven't used the "Additional Drivers" in Menu > Control Centre > Hardware
Then here is to run it from the command line.

Open a terminal.
type this and hit return:

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jockey-gtk

[jedimaster007]

Hi,

Thanks for helping me. I typed the code and it searched for Additional Drivers - the reply was 'No Proprietary Drivers are in use on this system'. Also I have manually used the 'Additional Drivers' in Menu > Control Centre > Hardware and got the same.

Do you have any other ideas I can try?

Thanks.

[dagon]

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[TBABill]

We would need to know what wireless adapter is in the machine and not just its brand and commercial model number, but rather its chipset as Linux sees it. You can just open a terminal and type in "lspci" which is LSPCI in lowercase (and without quotes) and past the entire output here. That will list all your PCI devices, such as video, ethernet, wifi, etc.

Just for general knowledge, if you enter "lsmod" (LSMOD in lowercase) it will list all active drivers currently in use. No need to do so now probably, but good to know as you troubleshoot hardware issues.