Steps to enable wireless driver in Linux Mint 14: 1. Connect with cable internet. Go to Menu -Preferences -Software Sources 3. Open Additional Drive.
1) Depending on your system download 32 or 64 bit package from 2) Go to a terminal to the dir with package. 3) tar -xvzf hybrid-portsrc.tar.gz Replace version with one you have 4) Install kernel headers (eg. In fedora “yum install kernel-headers”) 5) make -C /lib/modules/ uname -r/build M= pwd if There were no errors 6) Unload Modules from memory rmmod ndiswrapper b43 ssb bcm43xx b43legacy 7) For WPA modprobe ieee80211crypttkip 8)Check if Compiled Module is working insmod wl.ko Now Probably a new interface will be there for wireless (wlan0 or eth-1) To check it run iwconfig iwlist scanning Making it load on boot 1)cp wl.ko /lib/modules/ uname-r/kernel/net/wireless/ 2)depmod -a 3)rmmod wl 4)modprobe wl 5)Add following Lines to /etc/rc.local (in openSuse /etc/rc/rc.d/boot.local) modprobe wl.