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On 17/09/2019 16:54, mr meowski wrote:
> On 17/09/2019 16:06, George Parker wrote:
>> I've just bought a Lenovo V145-15AST, cheap and cheerful which has a
>> Realtek network card. Works fine in Windows on wireless and ethernet. I
>> fired up a copy of Mint 19.2 and it didn't find any wireless network.
>>
>> No problem, I thought and plugged in an ethernet connection at which
>> mint went into a sulk and refused to work at all. If I plug in the
>> ethernet and boot into mint it loads OK until it normally opens the
>> desktop at which it sits there with the mint logo up but nothing else
>> and refuses to do anything or respond to anything. If I boot into mint,
>> get to the desktop and plug in the ethernet the desktop locks up solid,
>> no response. So I can't look at any log files either.
>>
>> Any suggestions before I go finding Wifi drivers and trying to load them
>> from a usb stick?
>>
>> Frustrated regards, George
>>
>>
> See here:
>
> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=297510
> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=297105
>
> TLDR: install a 5.x series kernel or fiddle with manual compile and
> install of drivers. Lenovo Yogas/IdeaPads are uniquely poorly made and
> badly supported by Linux (I have one that needs special attention to
> boot normal Ubuntu without throwing ACPI errors so I sympathise).
>
> If you know what you're doing the quickest way to do this and avoid the
> catch 22 of not having working network access to download is boot a more
> up to date but largely compatible flavour of Linux with newer software
> support and a 5.x kernel - I'd use an Ubuntu 19.10 daily iso. Boot that
> from USB and chroot into the existing Mint install which will give you
> root on Mint with network access via the host Linux. Apt install a
> suitable 5.x kernel for Mint and reboot. Upgrade the BIOS/UEFI if
> applicable as the next job.
>
> Cheers
Thank you sir, ever the fount of all knowledge. I'll let you know if I'm
successful/competent enough.
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