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Here's the CF-31. These steps: 1. Set bios to defaults. 2. Set bios to boot from USB. [save] I use the rear USB 2.0 port out of habit. 3. Boot 4. When booted enable wireless. 5. Click install. 6. Check third party box. 7. Use password at boot setting. 8. Wait for install. 9. Shutdown and pull media ...

STICKY SHIFT KEY SO ALL CAPS. BOOTED FROM MINT USB. STARTED WIRELESS BEFORE TAPPING INSTALL. CHECKED THE THIRD PARTY BOX. LEFT PASSWORD AT BOOT ON. NOTES: TOUCH AND DIGITIZER WORK. FN [F1] AND [F2] DO NOT. NOW I NEED TO FIND THE CF-31 WITH DIFFERENT WIRELESS CARD. jay@jay196 ~ $ lsmod | grep iwl iwl...

Appreciate your patience and that you do your own research. Ima gonna :) install this on my MK6 when I find the spare caddy. 4 hour download last night. Thus far. Downloaded linuxmint-18-3 etc. to a Linux machine. (MX-17) First I shortened the name to 8 characters. (Just something I do....necessary ...

Since iwlwifi is being used how about rolling back to an earlier version of it? What is happening is the same thing I get with wl installed. Could also be in Network Manager....although the main card it doesn't like is a replacement 8260 Global replacement card. (Not original Panasonic card) Did we ...

O.K. different machine....just did 246 updates...wl came back or was there all the time. I blacklisted wl using MXtools and wireless auto started. Interesting....yesterday wireless worked fine. There's a glitch in the updates. System: Host: m17aa Kernel: 4.14.0-3-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce ...

here is output from CF-31 ...more appropriate. Last line is interesting. jay@mx17:~ $ modinfo iwldvm filename: /lib/modules/4.15.0-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/iwldvm.ko license: GPL author: Copyright(c) 2003- 2015 Intel Corporation <linuxwifi@intel.com> description: Intel(R...

I keep forgetting....auto connect.

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So wl is already missing in action, blacklisted, or not used by Mint. That's good. Assume kernel is misspelled...trying again. Yes I recognize this page. I like the way they write. You'll find disturbing information re: my 8260 card in the footnote.... Onward and upward, A comment I remember was one...

Here's advanced N6235 on CF-31 MK3. I had just blacklisted wl.

On one of these machines I have some info...when I find it I will send it. It was on a version of LMDE....hmmmmm.... I have had this happen and self repair itself after several cycles. Don't hold your breath. A battery pull reset won't hurt anything. Pull power and battery...hold on switch on for se...