Mint on Macbook Pro; No Wireless

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Re: Mint on Macbook Pro; No Wireless

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You might give ndiswrapper a try. Just follow the instructions here: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopi ... 49&t=13980
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Re: Mint on Macbook Pro; No Wireless

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Post the output of

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lspci
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Re: Mint on Macbook Pro; No Wireless

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You need the net5416 driver. Download it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.p...4&d=1199824855 Once you extract the driver, use the tutorial I linked to earlier and tell ndiswrapper to install the net.5416.inf instead of the net5211.inf. You will have to follow every step for it to work.
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