Mint linux wireless problems

[davholla]

I have a new install of Mint and I set up wireless and it worked fine.
But now it doesn't come on automatically or at all.
Any ideas?

cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:09:93:d2:39  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:20 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:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1680 (1.6 KB)  TX bytes:1680 (1.6 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 80:1f:02:4b:51:6d  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

[davholla]

Any ideas anyone? Is there a different wireless card that I could buy that would work? I want to use Linux again

[MichaelFindlay]

It would depend on the network card you used, I believe the Realtek cards have good support within most Linux distributions. I have used these for sometime and not had any issues.

[davholla]

How do I find out which network card to use?

[MichaelFindlay]

Hello Davholla,

I found the below URL that may be of a help to you:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-...pter-list.html

The site is very useful and has never let me down in the past, this should help you with finding a USB adaptor.

[davholla]

Thanks