wireless and sound not working

[Husse]

Which model?
Which wifi and which sound
For sound - you may need to have the modem turned on (switch on the bottom sometimes)
for wifi - check the wiki
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/MintWifi

[MagnusB]

You need to up the flux in order to capacitate the incoming candela... Or post the output of

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lspci

If you have a Broadcom wifi card look check out ndiswrapper or bcm43xx-fwcutter.

[MagnusB]

what happens if you run:

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alsamixer

in a terminal? There should be no [MM] below the bars (means they are muted)

[Husse]

I believe this is a case where you have to enable the modem to get sound...

[Husse]

How do I enable the modem

Unfortunately hard to say - many laptops has a switch on the bottom (or on a side)

[Husse]

This might work

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sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-generic

I've seen it mentioned as a separate solution but also as follows

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
Enter the following line at the bottom:
options snd-hda-intel model=acer

Now you don't have an acer but a gateway so change acer to gateway
Can't guarantee it works, but it should not break your system on the other hand