No Option for wireless connection

[Husse]

Undoubtedly you had the wired connection connected when you ran mintWifi...
Follow the wiki
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/MintWifi
If you read french a solution here (I think you can make something of it even without understanding french)
http://www.bivouak.fr/post/2007/12/02/H ... fi-3945ABG
(Lots of hits in Google that are not in english)

[MagnusB]

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lsmod | grep iwl

http://www.intellinuxwireless.org

[Husse]

Of course - how could I forget http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/
Thanks MagnusB

[MagnusB]

Well, Husse, I have had some troubles with the iwl module, so I will not forget it You are very much forgiven, we do not expect you to remember every solution to every problem
As for for the trouble at hand, iwl module is included in the kernel, so it should work at boot, so somehow Mint screwed that up, it could happen for no appear ant reason.
The module is called ipw3945 (I use iwl4965, that is why I screwed that up).
First, it depends on two modules, iwlwifi and mac80211. First you need to see if the microcode is present:

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% sudo updatedb
% locate iwlwifi-3945.ucode

It should be located at /lib/firmware/2.6.22-14-generic (in Daryna without an updated kernel), if it isn't:

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% wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-3945-ucode-2.14.4.tgz
% tar xvf iwlwifi-3945-ucode-2.14.4.tgz
% sudo cp  iwlwifi-3945-ucode-2.14.4/iwlwifi-3945.ucode /lib/firmware/2.6.22-14-generic

Then see if iwlwifi is loaded:

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lsmod | grep iwl

if that returns squilch, try:

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sudo modprobe iwlwifi

Then check for mac80211:

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lsmod | grep mac

Again, if that returns zero:

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sudo modprobe mac80211

If everything went successful, reboot and you should have wifi If not, and you have some troubles compiling the modules, please feel free to ask