I'm putting Linux Mint 17.1 On a friends Inspiron 1000 and it isn't seeing the wireless. Does anyone have any experience with this? Could someone help?
this is all I can figure to do:
sudo lshw
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*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
logical name: eth0
version: 91
serial: 00:11:43:38:5e:9d
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sis900 driverversion=v1.08.10 Apr. 2 2006 duplex=full ip=192.168.0.20 latency=173 link=yes maxlatency=11 mingnt=52 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:19 ioport:1800(size=256) memory:e4003000-e4003fff memory:28000000-2801ffff