i did use the necessity to buy a new comp to switch from windows to linux. mint13 was advised and now i am having some trouble getting the wifi running. it did connect for a minute using WEP, then disconnected. upon searching the web, i read that WAP should be used and then PRESTO, but that didnt work, obviously.
cpu: i3-2100
board: P8H77-I
bios: AMI v0307
wifi adapter: TP-Link TL-WN823N
now if I make a wifi connecton in the network applet, it wont even show up in the connections icon in the status bar.
so I knew this wouldnt be easy, but please be nice, I'll try to learn.
mintWifi with ethernet connected and without any wireless connections configured in the applet:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 10:bf:48:7b:8d:da
inet addr:192.168.178.20 Bcast:192.168.178.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::12bf:48ff:fe7b:8dda/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:252972 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:147555 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:369824465 (369.8 MB) TX bytes:11859595 (11.8 MB)
Interrupt:43 Base address:0x6000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:412 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:412 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:35754 (35.7 KB) TX bytes:35754 (35.7 KB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 64:70:02:08:6b:56
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2064 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1795 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2513858 (2.5 MB) TX bytes:234664 (234.6 KB)
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* V. querying DHCP...
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service smbd reload
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the reload(8) utility, e.g. reload smbd
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.178.1
Address: 192.168.178.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.69.102
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.69.113
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.69.138
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.69.139
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.69.100
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.69.101