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Re: [LUG] Mint XFCE4 wireless connection

 

Oh Urgh! I had a wifi dongle with the Realtek 8139. Pain in the rear.
Not very stable, needed NDISWRAPPER to load windows drivers into it
before it would work.

On 17 January 2010 07:45, Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Grant Sewell wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I have found the SSID of my router, in my case the ESSID. The encryption
>>>  is not set up, so no type or password. I have tried putting this in the
>>> wireless set up in XFCE but to no avail. No wireless connections found.
>>>
>>
>>  you OK - "no wireless connections found" is the clue here.  It may well
>> be
>> that your wireless adapter is not 'fully' supported.  I have had a
>> number of devices that, although it *seems* to be supported, actually
>> needs a 'firmware' file in order to work.
>>
>> Do you know what wireless adapter you have?
>>
>> Grant.
>>
>>
>
> I have run lspci. This is what I assume in the relevant part of the output
>
> 06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g]
> 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
> 06:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
>
> is that what you need?
>
> Neil
>
>
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