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It's in the router that the SSID of a network can be hidden. Or made visible again. Some people think that a hidden SSID is more secure, but that's a mistake. It's even *less* secure than a visible SSID: https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/securitywireless#TOC-Myth-1:-not-broadcastin...

It seems that JeremyB had the right hunch.... Try this: rfkill unblock all Well, at first I thought I had no success. I typed the code and rebooted but it didn't show up. Then I went into "connect to hidden networks" and it did connect this time. (Previously I had tried this and it didn't...

You might try the rtlwifi_new driver package from lwfinger, like this: https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/reserve-7#TOC-The-rtlwifi_new-driver-from-lwfinger (item 8, right column) Ok, I did try this one Pjotr, but it did not seem to help. I'm including screenshots of how my Network ...

JeremyB wrote:

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rfkill list all

please post the output

This is what I got with the command:

$ rfkill list all

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no


Of course, I have no idea what it means.

Pjotr wrote:You might try the rtlwifi_new driver package from lwfinger, like this:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... m-lwfinger
(item 8, right column)

Thank you for your response. I will check out the link!

So far, no help here. I am requesting if someone can take a look and give me some ideas as to how I might fix this situation. Thank you.

So far, no help here. I am requesting if someone can take a look and give me some ideas as to how I might fix this situation. Thank you.

After scouring around the forum I have seen this code and decided to run it in case it would help give context to my situation: sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py And to clarify: I cannot see the wireless in Network Settings (except when clicking the button 'Known Networks'. There's no sta...

Using Mint 17.2 I am connected via Ethernet to the Internet, and I am connected somehow to wireless on my laptop but when I open the Network settings -- there is nothing in the box under Wifi. If I click the button that says "Known networks" I can see the wireless network, but I can't get ...

Thank you so much, Karl, for your response. I went to the link you suggested and from there elsewhere, and I got rid of the bad sig error. However, the hash- sum mismatch error remains: W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/rebecca/import/binary-amd64/Packages Hash Sum mismatch E: S...

Hi I just installed Rebecca (17.01) and when doing the sudo apt-get update command, at the end I got: W: GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com trusty Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 16126D3A3E5C1192 Ubuntu Extras Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com> W: Failed to...

Thank you so much! I really appreciate your suggestions and helpfulness.

I feel frustrated by this feature, too. I've used Mint since the early days and it seems that one didn't always have to continually authenticate (but maybe I'm not remembering correctly since I've used Min alongside other distros). Now I'm using 12/Lisa and I wish there was more of a grace period be...

I have no effects turned on.... Actually, Mint wouldn't even let me enable any effects :shock: It says "Desktop effects could not be enabled" whenever I try to enamble either Normal, Extra or Custom effects :? However I think I managed to get rid of this ghost-like-things after disabling ...

I'm having this very problem, too using Julia . I've never had it with any other Mint version. But this is happening everyday and the images stay stuck on the screen until I reboot. I would really appreciate knowing how to solve it. It's quite distracting.

bob5 wrote:hi

-no probs , mark this post as solved !

I was wondering how to do that?

Bob5,

Thank you so much. This did the trick!

Now I'm off to investigate the wicd you mentioned.

Hello! I am running Isadora. When I start up and login I go to the desktop, then I get a box asking me for login password. I changed my password and the password for root and now every time I login, I get this message: "Enter Password for Default Keyring to Unlock" The password it wants is...

Thanks, fredbird67

So, according to richy-rich's statement, then, and what you're saying, I would uncheck everything except the medibuntu repo?

richyrich--which one is the Medibuntu repo?