A lot of info appeared when I put the dpkg command in terminal. What am I looking for?

If you want to see the whole report I will have to write it to USB for transfer.

If it returned a lot of information than dkms is most likely installed.
Thanks for running that command.

It's getting late, almost 2 o'clock a.m. here. I'll have to go to bed soon.

Where in the world is it 2am right now.? Its 930 PM here in WA state. I dont want to impose on you and keep you awake. I will follow your instructions and go from there

One more thing if you are still up. I guess the file master zip is the one as you said. How do I unzip it?

Right click on it and open it with the program that Mint uses to unzip it.

If that fails open the terminal cd to the directory that the master.zip is in and type:

and hit Enter.

Where you able to unzip that file?

Going to bed real soon-
I'm on the east coast so it's almost 2 a.m. here.

I'm gonna keep muddling through here. No need to reply now but I will post this for talk tomorrow.. if you are into that.
I guess that I unzip in the terminal. I did a search and was told to do that. The window where the file is found has a extract option. Seems I remember you said to do it in terminal. I will look back in this thread to review all that you've told me to do. Hopefully I won't do anything stupid.
It's not the easiest thing to converse on this site. I have to go to email to see if there's been a reply. Sleep well braddah. Thank you !!!

Yes. Its unzipped.

Good:-

Now click on that folder and read the "README" file. That will tell you how to install the driver.

I downloaded that file to my pc too and have already read the instructions. Follow the instruction for Ubuntu.
Let me know if you have trouble.

Yes still have problems. Cant get online.I have a rehearsal for the next few hours. I just don't know enough to make it work. Im having a hard time following instructions. Thank you for being patient. Cheers.. gotta go play music. That's something I can do... sort of ��

It could be as simple as a typo. In the following <unzip rtl8821ce master.zip> I don't know what the third letter or number that it.. rtl8821ce. Is it a l. Sure looks that way on this screen. It looked like a large number one last night. In any case I did try to follow the 'readme' instructions. I think I failed though.
I unzipped the file but the instructions said to open terminal in an application. I don't know what that means. Today as I look around in Mint I can't find what I did yesterday.

Perhaps I should just choose another version of Linux. Yesterday I tried another thing. I bought a USB wifi adapter on the advice of someone on the other thread I started. It too requires downloading a driver, although one guy said that the driver I need might already be on Mint. If it is I don't know enough to find and activate it.

The README file says:
## Installation of Driver
Make sure you have a proper build environment and `dkms` installed.

### Ubuntu
```
sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential dkms

Run that command in the terminal.

Than run the next command but make sure your in the directory with the source code-


In order to install the driver open a terminal in the directory with the source code and execute the following command:
```
sudo ./dkms-install.sh

I have not been able to find what I did yesterday on my Mint machine. What does 'open a terminal in the directory with the source code mean? I know how to open a terminal easy enough but the phrase that confuses me is 'open terminal in the directory'. Whats that mean?
First things first.. where's the extracted files? Do I need to do this over again- plug in USB stick with driver on it and unzip?
I don't know how you put up with a bone head like me but thanks for doing so. :)

While looking for the driver file I saw this crash report. It reads:
mar 22 _usr _bin_ bt-adapter.1000.crash
Does this mean anything?