C64Whiz

Actually, yes, worry. Look at the Democrat history to "work across the aisle".

I'm don't believe a democratic president will go full anti-gop and repair all of dipshits failures.

I see them more "going easy to unite the country" and in turn, keeping the people screwed while politicians keep their jobs.

@Axolotl1

To be fair, you may just not have a Wifi network adapter in that computer. In which case, I don't know what that little antenna you spoke of is about.

@Axolotl1

Ok, thank you for that. It doesn't seem Mint is picking up your Wifi hardware.

If you'd like, here is a video showing how to take a look via the command line. Open a terminal and then type the same commands.

These commands look at the PCI bus (lspci) and USB device (lsusb) while searching for a couple of terms I've seen before. I leave off the first letter of the terms because sometimes the descriptions use capital and sometime they don't. (You can add the -i switch to grep if you want to perform a case-INsensitive filter and use the entire word 'wireless' and 'network')

In the video, you'll see I have a USB wireless adapter. All the others are Ethernet (wired).

Command synopsis:

$ lspci | grep etwork
$ lspci | grep ireless
$ lsusb | grep etwork
$ lsusb | grep ireless

@Axolotl1

Close the dialog and left -click on the network icon on the task bar again. Are there any WiFi-anything showing up?

@Axolotl1

Small video, probably not necessary but in case you want...

(sorry, attached wrong video at first...)

@Axolotl1

Ok, this will allow us to create the connection, but I'm still not convinced Mint is detecting your HW.

So let's continue...oh, and by the way, since this is a "Live Boot", you'll need to do this every time you boot.

Alright, so you should be able to

• Specify a connection name, e.g. "My Wifi"
• On the "WiFi" tab, enter your Wifi's SSID (also known as the SID)
• Under the "Wifi Security" tab select what security you have on your wifi (I'm guessing "WPA & WPA2 Personal"...newer routers may have WPA3 but I honestly don't know at this point.)
• At the same time, enter your wifi password.

Finally you should be able to click on the "Save" button.

@Axolotl1

Ok, Click the '+' from there and you'll probably start a wizard where the first question is the type of network adapter. See if "WiFi" is on the list.

@Axolotl1

Ok, lets go there. Go back to the "network Connections" icon on the task tray and select "Network Connections" instead.

(I'm a little concerned Mint is not seeing your WiFi adapter. The HW network interface for Wifi.)

@Axolotl1

Ok, next question, are you currently running Mint via a Live boot? i.e. not yet installed on the computer?

@Axolotl1

Well a little good news...you're not going crazy, obviously there's not wifi showing up.

Since I'm not real familiar with Mint's GUI, what do you get if you click the '+'?

@Axolotl1

Probably looks something like this...

@Axolotl1

Not to worry. Based on your answer I'm going to guess you're using the default GUI - Cinnamon.

From what I'm seeing online (search), on your desktop environment you should have a "Network Icon" icon on your task bar. Clicking on it should pop up a menu to select "Network Settings".

Is this true and does it work to bring up a dialog with a "Wi-fi" tab?

@Axolotl1

Awesome. Now, I don't have experience with Mint but that's Ok.

Next question, are you using the Graphical User Interface (GUI) or are you a Command Line Interface (CLI) person? (Sorry if I'm talking too simple, I just don't know you're experience/skill level.)

@Axolotl1

Ugh, read through the replies and everyone thinks they have the solution. The short answer is: it depends. Different Linux distros use different methods/tools.

So the first question to be asked is: what Linux distribution are you using?