Wifi not working on Tosiba C660D Linux Mint 9 Isadora
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Wifi not working on Tosiba C660D Linux Mint 9 Isadora
Hi,
I installed Linux Mint 9 Isadora on my old Toshiba C660D laptop. The Wifi seems to connect but as soon as i open a link in the browser, the connections disconnects.
Please find results for this command
Thanks in advance.
lspci -vnn
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:fdc0]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 26
I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
Memory at d0004000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Kernel modules: r8169
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8176] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8184]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
Memory at fea00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: rtl8192CE
Kernel modules: r8192ce_pci
My problem is, if i install anything above Linux Mint 9 the display does not work. I am not able to explain technically, but i have tried several distributions and they all have the same problem, this is the latest version that my laptop works (Toshiba C660D - screen damaged, so using an old Benq FP91G+ monitor, i have tried other monitors all have same problem.) The display is unreadable.
You are running wireless N which is newer than the kernel in Mint 9 and Libraries in Mint 9 are going to stop you also maybe from getting that wireless N usb chip to work in Mint 9 to work.
Here is what you can do in Mint 9 to give info on your graphics for members to give a informed recommendation for a distro on what you should do on the boot screen for a live session. Using Boot cheat codes for using Vesa driver.
But I cannot guarantee that any of this will work on Mint 9. You present so many problems in this thread to overcome.
So this will be my only post in this thread. I think I provided enough info that you left out for other members to help you.
I am an absolute beginner and want to apologise for the nature of the quires.
I was trying to use the wireless that came with the Laptop and not anything external.
I tried all the commands mentioned and had saved the outputs in a file on my system.
Not sure what happened, but now the keyboard and mouse becomes inactive soon after the login screen appears, i have tried several times but no success.
I will now try to recover my laptop and when successful, get back on the result so of the commands.
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