new install- getting wireless to work

[Stephen Partington]

Have you connected to wired to do your apt-get update/upgrade and then open
up your restricted drivers. Inspirons usually detect pretty well with the
Ubuntu/Mint tools for such things.

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> --snip--
>   *-network
>              description: Ethernet interface
>              product: SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet
>              vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
>              physical id: 4
>              bus info: pci at 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
> --snip--
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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