[Solved] Linux Mint can't detect WiFi connections

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SunnyLinux

Re: Linux Mint can't detect WiFi connections

Post by SunnyLinux »

Marziano wrote: Tue Apr 03, 2018 2:01 pm My last shot at it:

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sudo mokutil --disable-validation
and then:

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sudo modprobe wl
It says the same. :roll:
Anyways, thank you! And thank you all for all your time! I think that this doesn't have any solution out there and I'm not really an expert so I think I will install another distro and after that I will try Linux Mint (on another version) again.
One more time, thank you guys! :wink:
Sir Charles

Re: Linux Mint can't detect WiFi connections

Post by Sir Charles »

Just hang in there a bit more if you want/can for others to have a look at it. They might be able to come up with some solution.
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Re: Linux Mint can't detect WiFi connections

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Give me the output of

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uname -r
also again

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rfkill list
P.S. still believe it's a secure boot problem, one op said he actually had to disconnect the laptops battery for a bit then go into bios and disable secure boot and it started working.
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SunnyLinux

Re: Linux Mint can't detect WiFi connections

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kc1di wrote: Tue Apr 03, 2018 2:23 pm Give me the output of

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uname -r
also again

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rfkill list
P.S. still believe it's a secure boot problem, one op said he actually had to disconnect the laptops battery for a bit then go into bios and disable secure boot and it started working.
The first:
4.13.0-37-generic

And the other one:
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
SunnyLinux

Re: Linux Mint can't detect WiFi connections

Post by SunnyLinux »

Anyways, I'm starting to think that maybe my laptop can't run any Linux distro?? I have tried with Ubuntu and it was the same problem. That didn't happened in Windows. My laptop is an ASUS one. Can this be true?
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Re: Linux Mint can't detect WiFi connections

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your particular wireless card is problematic with secure boot and ubuntu based distros. I even have seen threads with problems on Fedora same thing.
But ubuntu ones seemed to be fixed with disabling secure boot and that should work in Mint also.
Will keep looking there must be a solution.
Easy tips : https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/ Pjotr's Great Linux projects page.
Linux Mint Installation Guide: http://linuxmint-installation-guide.rea ... en/latest/
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SunnyLinux

Re: Linux Mint can't detect WiFi connections

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kc1di wrote: Tue Apr 03, 2018 2:39 pm your particular wireless card is problematic with secure boot and ubuntu based distros. I even have seen threads with problems on Fedora same thing.
But ubuntu ones seemed to be fixed with disabling secure boot and that should work in Mint also.
Will keep looking there must be a solution.
WAIT!
I did a mistake. Your solution was the right one, the secure boot was enabled. Thank you, thank you, thank you! :o I'm really happy I can finally use Linux Mint.
Thanks to everybody!
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Re: Linux Mint can't detect WiFi connections

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Glad it's working :)
please take a moment and edit the subject line of your original post by adding [Solved]
thanks.
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Re: [Solved] Linux Mint can't detect WiFi connections

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I had this problem today as well and this post fixed it! Now I can use my old laptop again as good as new.
Thanks!
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