Linux Mint Forums

Again, thanks. The Auto start on boot seems to work, just not consistently. I re installed bcmwl-kernel-source since after I removed it I was seeing it dropping connections. For now it seems to be consistently connecting (but I have no idea what might have changed!) So thanks to you, I'm marking thi...

It seems like such a simple thing. I have an external hard drive full of video collected over time while my Plex was running on this old Mac Pro Tower. The old El Capitan is getting long in the tooth so I figure I might eek a few more years out of the box by loading it up with Linux and having a go ...

Hi All! I'm kinda sorta a newbie. New to Mint. I was a hard-nosed Red Hat user for a couple of years nearly 20 years ago, then fell away. i dabbled for a month or so with Ubuntu about ten years ago, but this is my first time trying Mint. I'm hoping to resurrect this old Mac Pro 2009 tower as my medi...

well Thanks! I think uninstalling that may or may not have helped. It seems that it is something of a crap shoot whether the wireless will look (or display) possible connections and whether it will connect or not. Generally, if it does not connect on boot, rebooting will work. There is probably some...

Oh so close! Yet... so far! First, thanks so much! Your recommendation worked like a charm.. at first. After installing those items I rebooted and logged into my wireless. Perfect... until I rebooted again a little while later. Now it sees the wireless card, but isn't displaying the network. I tried...

Hi Folks. I'm wading into Linux again. Other than a very brief attempt at Ubuntu 10 years ago, I've not spent tons of time in Linux since the early days of Red Hat, so think of me as a clueless newbie with only a bit of very stale command line time. Mint looks beautiful and I expect I will have tons...