Driver installed, but no Wireless on the networks list

[Nickpick]

I've recently installed Mint on a friends laptop and, in contrast to my own installation, the WLAN didn't work out of the box.

The Wireless Connection was not on the networks list (Wired was on there alright though). What I did then was using the Windows Wireless Drivers tool for adding the driver to Mint. Finding the driver was no big issue either; the utility added the driver to the list and reported that the corresponding hardware was indeed found. My guess was that it would then add the Wireless Connection as an option to the networks list, which it didn't.

I tried reloging, rebooting, etc to no avail. Is there anything else I have to do to actually activate the wireless option?

[Nickpick]

I think I've tried that already, but I can try again.

- Upon startup run
- sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

Do you mean after start-up in the terminal or during the GRUB?

[Nickpick]

After startup, in the terminal.

Alright, thanks a bunch. Now I just have to get hold of that machine again.

[ganga]

^^ I am facing the same problem, did this solution work? In my case it didn't :

amit@amit-laptop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
net5211 : driver installed
device (168C:001C) present (alternate driver: ath_pci)
amit@amit-laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

amit@amit-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

bash: a29b08up: command not found
amit@amit-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

amit@amit-laptop:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -m
module configuration already contains alias directive

amit@amit-laptop:~$

[chattr]

^^ I am facing the same problem, did this solution work? In my case it didn't :

amit@amit-laptop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
net5211 : driver installed
device (168C:001C) present (alternate driver: ath_pci)
amit@amit-laptop:~$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

amit@amit-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

bash: a29b08up: command not found
amit@amit-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

amit@amit-laptop:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -m
module configuration already contains alias directive

amit@amit-laptop:~$

It looks as if the wireless interface is down.

If the name of your wireless interface is wlan0, do in a terminal

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sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

then do

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sudo iwconfig wlan0

and report the results.

If the wlan0 interface comes if (you'll know it's up if it's listed when you do ' sudo ifconfig ' and it shows), you might next try

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sudo dhclient wlan0

to get an IP address.