Making WiFi work in MSI Wind U130

Jul 26

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In my quest to convert windows users to linux, I installed Linux Mint Isadora ( based on Ubuntu Lucid ) on my wife’s MSI Wind U130 netbook.

Everything except WiFi worked out of the box, the chipset was detected, but it was disabled. Launchpad had a known bug filed for this and the following steps below “activated” the disabled wireless chipset.

As root, run the following commands.

mkdir -p /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/

touch /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat

service network-manager restart

Works extraordinary and even the updates don’t seem to break them.

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About C S Shyam Sundar

I'm a thief; I am the will of independence; I am the power of persona; I am the creation of my environment; I am the pursuit of more; I know this, because I thrive on intelligence.

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