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  1. #1
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    Set up wireless on mint

    I am thinking of trying mint on my PC. I am using the latest version
    and I just have one problem I cannot use wireless.

    Now by the way wireless have never worked but I have only just started trying.
    This card is Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]
    My questions are
    1) Can this card work (I guess not)
    2) Can anyone suggest a card that will work?
    3) Would Kbuntu be better?

    I used this guide
    http://www.wikihow.com/Set-up-a-Wireless-Network-in-Linux

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    Continued from the 1st post because of size problems

    # Type iwconfig into the terminal to see what wireless network interfaces have been detected.
    #
    3
    Type sudo lshw (or lspci or lsusb) to list hardware and get details on the chipset that your card uses. Try searching the Internet or posting in the help forums for your Linux distribution to see if there's support for the chipset your card uses.
    #
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    If you're using Linux Mint, try MintWifi.
    Here is the output
    Code:
    iwconfig
    lo        no wireless extensions.
    
    eth0      no wireless extensions.
    Code:
    mintwifi
    -------------------------
    * I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
    sh: cannot create /tmp/detected_wireless_devices: Permission denied
    -------------------------
    * II. querying ndiswrapper...
    -------------------------
    * III. querying iwconfig...
    lo        no wireless extensions.
    
    eth0      no wireless extensions.
    
    -------------------------
    * IV. querying ifconfig...
    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:09:93:d2:39  
              inet addr:192.168.2.4  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
              inet6 addr: fe80::21d:9ff:fe93:d239/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
              RX packets:40335 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:31316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
              RX bytes:48683381 (48.6 MB)  TX bytes:6393016 (6.3 MB)
              Memory:fdfc0000-fdfe0000 
    
    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
              inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
              RX packets:318 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:318 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
              RX bytes:20404 (20.4 KB)  TX bytes:20404 (20.4 KB)
    
    -------------------------
    * V. querying DHCP...
    There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 4665
    killed old client process, removed PID file
    Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
    Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
    All rights reserved.
    For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
    
    Listening on LPF/eth0/00:1d:09:93:d2:39
    Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:1d:09:93:d2:39
    Sending on   Socket/fallback
    DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.2.4 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
    DHCPACK of 192.168.2.4 from 192.168.2.1
    bound to 192.168.2.4 -- renewal in 796646274 seconds.
    -------------------------
    * VI. querying nslookup google.com...
    Server:         192.168.2.1
    Address:        192.168.2.1#53
    
    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name:   google.com
    Address: 173.194.34.65
    Name:   google.com

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    That card should work.
    First, check & post output of "lspci" ("lsusb" if it's a usb-device)
    Support for the card should be in the kernel, maybe you need to get firmware.
    I found a few threads about this card:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1739743&page=2
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1878955
    http://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,1598
    http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...rue#RTL8188CUS
    In pingvino veritas!

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    Thanks I am ill today but I will try soon.

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