No wifi on Linux Mint

Retro6

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I've just installed Linux Mint to a laptop and I'm having issues trying to connect it to my wifi.

At the beginning of the installation I tried to connect to the wifi when prompted and it took forever and just hung so I restarted the installation again I chose not to connect to get Linux Mint to install. Now its installed I try to connect to my wifi and it wont connect?

I've put in the correct passkey but it just doesn't want to connect.

I heard good things about Linux Mint and did not expect to run into issues straight away.

I'm already thinking about ditching it for Ubuntu but before I do is there a way to fix the wifi connectivity issue in Linux Mint?
 
Nah I wont bother, I'm ditching it, its rubbish. Linux Mint has a sea of issues, I went with a wired connection and installed some apps then couldn't launch them. If this is what Linux Mint is going to work like I'll just go for a less problematic OS that actually works. Thanks for your reply tho I appreciate it.
 
Yeesh that went south awfully quickly. I'm curious to know what programmes you had issues with.
As a complete Linux noob I tried out Mint last year and loved it. I've only gone back to Windoze because of anti-cheat in one or two games that I wanted to play with friends.
 
Retro6 said:
I've just installed Linux Mint to a laptop and I'm having issues trying to connect it to my wifi.

At the beginning of the installation I tried to connect to the wifi when prompted and it took forever and just hung so I restarted the installation again I chose not to connect to get Linux Mint to install. Now its installed I try to connect to my wifi and it wont connect?

I've put in the correct passkey but it just doesn't want to connect.

I heard good things about Linux Mint and did not expect to run into issues straight away.

I'm already thinking about ditching it for Ubuntu but before I do is there a way to fix the wifi connectivity issue in Linux Mint?
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Linux Mint Ubuntu base or Linux Mint (LMDE) Debian base?
 
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Ice Tea said:
Linux Mint Ubuntu base or Linux Mint (LMDE) Debian base?
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I know nothing about Linux but I did pick up from a recent Chris Barnat "Explaing Computers" youtube vid that yeah, Linux Mint comes in two flavours with the Debian based one being the most recent, and if I remember the video correctly he did say the Debian based version doesn't come with an automatic driver download manager, or some such easy sounding feature that sounds like it does driver stuff for you, which the Ubuntu based Mint version does, and so is more easy to set up. He did have some issues with it himself I think. Apparently the Mint developers want to divorce themselves from the Ubuntu base for reasons, so their is a choice now.
 
iamgigglz said:
Yeesh that went south awfully quickly. I'm curious to know what programmes you had issues with.
As a complete Linux noob I tried out Mint last year and loved it. I've only gone back to Windoze because of anti-cheat in one or two games that I wanted to play with friends.
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The older version seemed to work reasonably well but the new updated versions seem to be unnecessarily bloated with issues.

I found one issue and that was the laptops wifi driver wasn't compatible with Mint or Ubuntu, why.... I do not know because the older versions supported it. I remember a time when Linux was light weight and just worked.

Lubuntu was one of my go to operating systems until that got bloated up with the new updated versions. Its got to a point now where Windows is actually lighter than the commonly used Linux distros like the different flavors of Ubuntu based Linux operating systems. I do like the terminal but I don't really want to be in the terminal constantly fixing, or attempting to fix issues and spending hours online looking up fixes that should just work for simple things like it used to. Maybe Linux Mint works fine on some computers but not all and the fact that I couldn't even launch any apps just got annoying and just wanted something that was without all the issues and bugs. My guess is probably to do with hardware compatibility messing things up.
 
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Ice Tea said:
Linux Mint Ubuntu base or Linux Mint (LMDE) Debian base?
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Its Ubuntu based.

I've put Ubuntu on it, touch screen can be iffy if ran in tablet mode, lots of freezes. Works fine otherwise but I have to use a wifi dongle because the built in wifi isn't supported by Ubuntu. It will just keep disconnecting then reconnecting constantly and it looks to be a common issue from what I've seen in the Ubuntu forum. Also issues with updates not completing then getting the error message that it can only do partial updates.
 
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Retro6 said:
Its Ubuntu based.

I've put Ubuntu on it, touch screen can be iffy if ran in tablet mode, lots of freezes. Works fine otherwise but I have to use a wifi dongle because the built in wifi isn't supported by Ubuntu. It will just keep disconnecting then reconnecting constantly and it looks to be a common issue from what I've seen in the Ubuntu forum. Also issues with updates not completing then getting the error message that it can only do partial updates.
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I've had similar with a HP stream, wanted to put Xubuntu on but the wifi kit onboard was some weird hp prep thing so gave up in the end. Largely I think this issues falls more with the hardware vendor than with Linux "not being what it was". How much new hardware in how many differing flavours is there now compared to what was? WiFi 4,5,6,7 with 8 coming. Gb network ports are now slowly moving to 2.5 with some 5 and 10 coming about. It's all more and more code the devs need to work in.
 
At least you got it installed I couldn't even get it to boot on my old laptop its supposed to install for legacy bios but completely failed to boot managed to switch to EFI mode where it boots, kind of, still get a missing UBUNTU/EFI config on boot or something but at least it fires up, eventually.

Retro6 said:
The older version seemed to work reasonably well but the new updated versions seem to be unnecessarily bloated with issues.
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I had an older version installed from '23 and that installed/works fine but this latest one seems to have problems
 
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