Mint Live CD - Wireless not recognized
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Mint Live CD - Wireless not recognized
Several times before this has come up. It's not convenient for me to have to solve this in a virtual machine-I am experimenting with the Live CD of Mint 14 XFCE-64bit. I find it hard to copy and paste between OS so I am just asking for instructions in simple terms to figure out how and if I can get the Netgear WNA3100 USB adapter running in Live CD mode. I can't afford to install it on my HDD unless I know for sure it'll work.
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Re: Mint Live CD - Wireless not recognized
The download link shown in the link above is invalid. Just thought I'd clear that up.
Re: Mint Live CD - Wireless not recognized
Ouch, my bad!seanlinux wrote:The download link shown in the link above is invalid. Just thought I'd clear that up.
You can now get the driver from here.
Make sure that neccesary kernel module is installed:
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sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-dkms
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tar xzvf 2612284-Broadcom_bcm43xx_USB_32_64bit_v2.tar.gz
cd Broadcom_bcm43xx_USB_32_64bit_v2
Note: if you are using 64-bit system substitute bcmn43xx32.inf with bcmn43xx64.inf in the command below.
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sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmn43xx32.inf
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sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
For more information on using ndiswrapper see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=885847
Re: Mint Live CD - Wireless not recognized
I want to thumbs up the above. I followed the instructions and it solved my initial problem. But now I have to keep entering my security code since it won't take my code. I know what my secure WiFi code is, but the OS just won't use it.
Re: Mint Live CD - Wireless not recognized
So you can't connect to your wireless network?seanlinux wrote:I followed the instructions and it solved my initial problem. But now I have to keep entering my security code since it won't take my code. I know what my secure WiFi code is, but the OS just won't use it.
Post the results of each of these:
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lsusb
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ndiswrapper -l
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dmesg | grep ndis
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iwconfig
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sudo echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules
Re: Mint Live CD - Wireless not recognized
Thanks, I'll do so. I think I'll need to re-do everything since before, since it was a Live session.