TBCH does encryption of the installation and home folder really mean anything at all? No… > On Oct 23, 2016, at 7:34 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Iznogoud writes: > > >> I've installed Linux Mint on an Acer Travelmate laptop and am > >> having trouble getting the wireless stuff working. > >> > >> iwconfig says the access point is not associated. > >> > >> lspci says this: > >> > >> 01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb) > >> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-N 7260 > >> > >> dmesg says link is not ready. It seem like I've had a similar > >> problem at least once before and that I might have been able > >> to get it fixed one time. But I am not sure what to do next. > > > > There is most likely a module for hte wireless ethernet device 9card or > > itnernal) that has to be loaded. Some "bleeding edge" drivers are not yet > > in the kernel, depending on the age of the hardware and how popular it was > > in terms of volume sold. What we used to do is use "ndiswarpper" which is > > exactly that. an NDIS wrapper, to use drivers that come straight from > > Windows. You typically build the ndiswrapper with the drivers for the device > > you have. Look it up. > > I wound up installing True OS -- trueos.org <http://trueos.org/> -- and things are > working, including the wireless. > > The Linux Mint install encrypted the hard drive. I don't think > I have that with True OS. That encryption may have helped in > terms of browsing/popups. Does that ring any bells? Tia. > > -- > Brian > Ebenezer Enterprises - In G-d we trust. > http://webEbenezer.net <http://webebenezer.net/> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20161023/11108a49/attachment.html>