new install of Mint 19.1 will not connect to either wifi or ethernet
PROBLEM SOLVED here is how I did it: https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspo...ltek.html#ID10
Hello all, I can not get online with my newly installed Mint 19.1 Yesterday I installed Mint on my old laptop successfully. I did so with a USB stick. I wiped the drive clean of windows 7 and made it a Mint machine. Today I partitioned the hard drive on my desktop for dual boot window 10 and Mint. Both OS's work but the Mint will not connect to either WiFi or Ethernet. I installed Mint on my Lenovo 310S ideacentre desktop with the same USB stick as with my laptop. What should I do now? On the advice of a helping individual I am re-posting this here in hopes that more feedback will be forthcoming. dc.901 said- <Does the OS (Mint 19) see the Wireless adapter? Can you open a terminal and type in "sudo lspci -v", review the output and see if you can find wireless adapter>. I did that and I see both a wireless network adapter and ethernet controller. I have tried to get online using both. Neither worked for me. Now what? |
Try looking for a driver for you wireless card and install it.
Once you get the driver installed, reboot. |
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Well, I can't get online and the usb stick does nothing. How do I tell the computer to look for drivers on the USB stick? I inserted the USB stick and clicked on the driver manager to search for drivers. All it did was try to get online. A window opened that said- Failed to download repository info. In the detail is says Mint etc, does not have release file. I have no idea what that means. Do you? I am about to attempt re-installing Mint. Is that a good idea? Thank a lot for taking some time to help me. It is much appreciated. |
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Use the device that you are using to post this post to find the driver for your wifi card. Run this command and tell me what card you have and I'll try to find the driver for you. Code:
lspci | grep -i network |
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I found out that it may not work with LM 19-
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=281231 Here's the driver here: https://github.com/tomaspinho/rtl8821ce |
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Just to be sure I know what this is all about- so I can enter data into the terminal window and that will install a driver? I don't need to download a file? |
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Than you will have to unzip the file and than read the "README" file to install the driver. OR you can try installing Ubuntu and see if the wifi works out of the box with Ubuntu 18.04:- |
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Just to be clear- I have a Lenovo desktop that I have partitioned the hard drive for dual boot of Win 10 and Mint 19.1 That is the machine that Mint will not work on. Cheers and thanks for the help |
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The only way that I know of to carry the driver over to Mint is via a usb stick. If you don't have another usb stick than you may want to pick one up. |
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Caio |
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Since you already have Mint installed you can remove the Mint .iso from the usb stick. Than, you can carry the rtl8821ce driver and it's folder over to your Mint install.
That way you won't have to purchase another usb stick. |
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