<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">TBCH does encryption of the installation and home folder really mean anything at all? No…<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 23, 2016, at 7:34 PM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com" class="">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">Iznogoud writes:<br class="">
<br class="">>> I've installed Linux Mint on an Acer Travelmate laptop and am<br class="">
>> having trouble getting the <span class="gmail-il">wireless</span> stuff working.<br class="">
>><br class="">>> iwconfig says the access point is not associated.<br class="">
>><br class="">
>> lspci says this:<br class="">>><br class="">
>> 01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation <span class="gmail-il">Wireless</span> 7260 (rev bb)<br class="">
>> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band <span class="gmail-il">Wireless</span>-N 7260<br class="">
>><br class="">
>> dmesg says link is not ready. It seem like I've had a similar<br class="">
>> problem at least once before and that I might have been able<br class="">
>> to get it fixed one time. But I am not sure what to do next.<br class="">
><br class="">> There is most likely a module for hte <span class="gmail-il">wireless</span> ethernet device 9card or<br class="">> itnernal) that has to be loaded. Some "bleeding edge" drivers are not yet<br class="">> in the kernel, depending on the age of the hardware and how popular it was<br class="">> in terms of volume sold. What we used to do is use "ndiswarpper" which is<br class="">> exactly that. an NDIS wrapper, to use drivers that come straight from<br class="">> Windows. You typically build the ndiswrapper with the drivers for the device<br class="">> you have. Look it up.<br class="">
<br class=""></div>I wound up installing True OS -- <a href="http://trueos.org/" class="">trueos.org</a> -- and things are<br class=""></div><div class="">working, including the wireless. <br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Linux Mint install encrypted the hard drive. I don't think <br class="">I have that with True OS. That encryption may have helped in <br class="">terms of browsing/popups. Does that ring any bells? Tia.<br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Brian<br class=""></div><div class="">Ebenezer Enterprises - In G-d we trust.<br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://webebenezer.net/" class="">http://webEbenezer.net</a><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div>
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