No wireless

[keithclark]

I see that Gloria offers no wireless. Strange as Ubuntu 9.04 does with no issues. Anyways...I have no idea how to find my card information, or nor do I want to. Ubuntu oringinal works. Thanks. Carry on.............

[lanrun]

I have Mint 7 main edition on my EeePC 901,and am wireless as I write this reply.
Could you describe your problem a bit more specific?

[keithclark]

Yes, no BCM 43XX driver by default. Ah well. Good attempt.

Keith

[keithclark]

I hooked up to a wireless connection and installed what was required. Still no luck. It does not see wireless connections. ubuntu does.

Also, from the www.linuxmint.com website, the community, the irc link does not work. it just brings up mysql error messages.

Not good first impressions.

Keith

[rovingsign]

I just did my first Mint7 install last night...

To get wireless working - I had to connect via ethernet cable, which instantly prompted me to download/activate a Restricted Broadcom driver...

reboot. make sure "enable wireless" is checked. I forget the exact series of steps from there - "Find wireless networks" or some such language.

But - point is, mine didnt work out of the box either, but the fix seemed simple. Could be a problem if you have no hardwire connection.

[oakhilltop]

I have a similar problem with the Mint 7 livecd and a Broadcom BCM43xx driver. I opened the control center and selected hardware drivers and tried to activate the BCM driver. It fails with a message saying that jockey backend crashed. I have my laptop connected with a wired connection, until I can get the wireless to work.

Is there a fix for this?

[Pierre]

The 1st time that I configured my WiFi, it offered to use the propitiatory drivers, i declined, & it didn't work.
since I hadn't done much, I re-installed the whole thing, & this time downloaded the propitiatory drivers.

Then it worked ok.
thats laptop's for you.