<div dir="ltr">at least you can still watch allen and kris... great show. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Iznogoud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iznogoud@nobelware.com" target="_blank">iznogoud@nobelware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> I've installed Linux Mint on an Acer Travelmate laptop and am<br>
> having trouble getting the wireless stuff working.<br>
><br>
> iwconfig says the access point is not associated.<br>
><br>
> lspci says this:<br>
><br>
> 01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb)<br>
> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-N 7260<br>
><br>
> dmesg says link is not ready. It seem like I've had a similar<br>
> problem at least once before and that I might have been able<br>
> to get it fixed one time. But I am not sure what to do next.<br>
<br>
<br>
</span>There is most likely a module for hte wireless ethernet device 9card or<br>
itnernal) that has to be loaded. Some "bleeding edge" drivers are not yet<br>
in the kernel, depending on the age of the hardware and how popular it was<br>
in terms of volume sold. What we used to do is use "ndiswarpper" which is<br>
exactly that. an NDIS wrapper, to use drivers that come straight from<br>
Windows. You typically build the ndiswrapper with the drivers for the device<br>
you have. Look it up.<br>
<br>
Then, the kernel will load the module properly (the ndiswrapper), and the<br>
module will essentially use the configuration of your wrapper to direct<br>
kernel functions to the object code that is found in the .dll. (Confused<br>
yet?)<br>
<br>
Read about it, try it and report back. That is how I got my wireless device<br>
on my Compaq laptop from 2005 to work.<br>
<span class=""><br>
<br>
> And, I'm having trouble getting Ben Shapiro podcasts to play<br>
> on this machine. (I'm using an ethernet connection while the<br>
> wireless is down,)<br>
><br>
> I'm able for example, to watch <a href="http://bsdnow.tv" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bsdnow.tv</a> podcasts without a<br>
> problem. But I'm not getting any sound when I try to listen to<br>
> to this.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/8606/ben-shapiro-show-ep-170-hillary-clinton-opens-ben-shapiro" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.dailywire.com/<wbr>podcasts/8606/ben-shapiro-<wbr>show-ep-170-hillary-clinton-<wbr>opens-ben-shapiro</a><br>
><br>
> I'v tried two ways to get it to work.<br>
> 1. Clicking on the links..<br>
> 2. Downloading an mp3 file.<br>
><br>
> When I downloaded the mp3, it said it needed to install<br>
> gstreamer. So I let it do that, but that didn't seem to help.<br>
> I've tried both of the above things several times, but I haven't<br>
> tried rebooting.<br>
><br>
<br>
</span>As an FYI, "MPlayer" is the _best_ player for both archived (on your drive)<br>
and streaming media. You want that, and you can easily build it from source.<br>
It has "skins" and GUIs that go with it for people who do not like the CLI.<br>
<br>
But your core problem is in ALSA, the Advanced Linux Sounds System,<br>
configuration. In a terminal hit "alsamixer' and see the graphical sliders.<br>
Move left right with the cursor keys and keep hitting "M" to mute and unmute<br>
channels. The issue, I think, is that one way of palying the stream uses a<br>
PCM ALSA device and another something else. The one that plays is not muted<br>
and the other one is. It can also be the "jack sense" that needs to be muted.<br>
That is just the sensor that tries to figure out if you have plugged in the<br>
jack for headphones or not.<br>
<br>
Looks like you need to do some reading on that as well. Report back.<br>
<br>
<br>
And of course, I could be dead-wrong about all of this.<br>
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