A few days ago, wireless was fine. Yesterday it was not. Yesterday the wireless tab was visible but I could not enable a wireless connection. Today, the wireless tab is completely misssing from Network Settings.
Basically, this is what I have
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wlan0 no wireless extensions
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
PS. One other thing is that the desktop has Win 7, so I am dual booting. Because of that, the wireless driver for the Windows7 side is a Ralink driver ( I was using the broadcom driver that comes with Mint without much problem until just recently) .
I have tried to go and see if it is possible to utilize the Windows Wireless Network Drivers to enable the Ralink 2870 drivers but this has been done without success. One of 2 reasons this has been unsucessful is because as it stands now, Mint does not show where Windows 7 drive is as it did before. So I cannot access the Win 7 drive. Also I need the fwcutter utitliy which requires network access.
I can not even have Mint see or recognize when a USB stick is inserted so this remains another problem. Otherwise, I might try the tutorial listed here to get wireless going:
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http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/692