can't find asus wifi after wiping W10 for mint

[Mike Marchywka]

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>From: ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> on behalf of Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie>
>Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2019 7:17 PM
>To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: can't find asus wifi after wiping W10 for mint
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>On 24/03/2019 22:52, geek at uniserve.com wrote:
>>
>> my friend said sure go ahead and wipe windows 10 and install mint just
>> so you save my files and put them back on. all of that was routine and
>> worked ok except that the wifi quit.
>
>Oh dear. I'm sorry about that. Somewhere at the entrance to Linuxland
>there should be a large sign which says never to do this with Asus. A
>lot of their stuff is designed specifically to be Windows-only, and will
>either never work with Linux or only after a few years when enough is
>known about the devices for one of the driver gurus to be able to write
>the necessary code.


What ever happened with ndiswrapper? Can you wrap a 'dohs driver? 


>
>As Liam said, it's possible that that has now happened, so a firmware
>upgrade may fix the problem.
>
>Asus machines should come with a warning label.
>
>P
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