Mint 10 Enable Wireless Greyed Out

[paulreg]

Hi
Last year I tried Mint 9 on an old Dell Latitude D600. This was my first foray into the world of Linux and I was impressed.
The wireless nic was automatically detected and I was able to connect to the web through it. Before this I did not realise that this laptop had a wireless nic. Windows didn't detect it !
I decided to try Linux again this year and loaded Mint 10 on the same laptop.
Now I have no wireless connection. and Enable Wireless is greyed out.
Any ideas anyone ?
Many thanks
Paulreg

[seeley]

Hi!
Maybe you find a hint here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=64310
seeley

Edit.
Or: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... er#p338872

[paulreg]

Egg on face for me.
Fn + F2 enabled the wireless
BUT
I still can't connect to or see any wireless networks.

58: None 01.0: 10701 Ethernet
[Created at net.124]
Unique ID: L2Ua.ndpeucax6V1
Parent ID: JNkJ.v1rcWA3YbyC
SysFS ID: /class/net/eth1
SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:03.0
Hardware Class: network interface
Model: "Ethernet network interface"
Driver: "ipw2100"
Driver Modules: "ipw2100"
Device File: eth1
HW Address: 00:04:23:8b:df:51
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #26 (WLAN controller)

[Eden]

Egg on face for me.
Fn + F2 enabled the wireless
BUT
I still can't connect to or see any wireless networks.

We can soon make an omelette

I had similar problem and realized that
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=141&t=55066
is exactly what I need for my HP.

Well it didn't work until you helped me to turn the damn thing on

[paulreg]

Guys, thanks for the posts but what confuses me is why I need to make all these changes when wifi works fine when I boot from the CD ?