at least you can still watch allen and kris... great show. On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Then, the kernel will load the module properly (the ndiswrapper), and the > module will essentially use the configuration of your wrapper to direct > kernel functions to the object code that is found in the .dll. (Confused > yet?) > > Read about it, try it and report back. That is how I got my wireless device > on my Compaq laptop from 2005 to work. > > > > And, I'm having trouble getting Ben Shapiro podcasts to play > > on this machine. (I'm using an ethernet connection while the > > wireless is down,) > > > > I'm able for example, to watch bsdnow.tv podcasts without a > > problem. But I'm not getting any sound when I try to listen to > > to this. > > > > http://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/8606/ben-shapiro- > show-ep-170-hillary-clinton-opens-ben-shapiro > > > > I'v tried two ways to get it to work. > > 1. Clicking on the links.. > > 2. Downloading an mp3 file. > > > > When I downloaded the mp3, it said it needed to install > > gstreamer. So I let it do that, but that didn't seem to help. > > I've tried both of the above things several times, but I haven't > > tried rebooting. > > > > As an FYI, "MPlayer" is the _best_ player for both archived (on your drive) > and streaming media. You want that, and you can easily build it from > source. > It has "skins" and GUIs that go with it for people who do not like the CLI. > > But your core problem is in ALSA, the Advanced Linux Sounds System, > configuration. In a terminal hit "alsamixer' and see the graphical sliders. > Move left right with the cursor keys and keep hitting "M" to mute and > unmute > channels. The issue, I think, is that one way of palying the stream uses a > PCM ALSA device and another something else. The one that plays is not muted > and the other one is. It can also be the "jack sense" that needs to be > muted. > That is just the sensor that tries to figure out if you have plugged in the > jack for headphones or not. > > Looks like you need to do some reading on that as well. Report back. > > > And of course, I could be dead-wrong about all of this. > _______________________________________________ > 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/20160824/6573b95a/attachment-0001.html>