Does Not Detect Wireless Card

[johnywhy]

i'm uninstalling mint because it will not detect my wifi card. i'm disappointed, because i've read great mint is at detecting hardware automatically.

i tried installing the drivers downloaded from the wifi card maker, but they do not provide linux drivers, only windows. i tried installing the windows drivers with the mint windows drivers installer, and that did not work either. i messed around with ndis-- no dice.

further research uncovered some complex, time-consuming steps involving builds and compiling and command line stuff that i have no time or interest in doing. that's what mint is supposed to handle for me. maybe wine-doors or virtual box would help.

but no matter. something in grub or mint has gone awry, so now the X graphical interface will not load. i'm done with mint.

my card is a realtek RTL8187B on a new gateway laptop.

back to vista.

-disappointed

[nac]

Linux at one end, and Vista at the other, eh? lol

[Edit] Don't mind me. It will never happen again, I promise.