![]() So I downloaded it from a not so shady website and got on with it. I decided to look for a download once more, seeing as I have a Macbook, and I do have the legitimate DVD too, there wasn’t anything I was doing wrong here. So that gave me a fair share of trouble, so I decided to ditch that. However seeing as I had a dvd, I tried giving it a go on my VMWare on windows, knowing full well VMWare doesn’t support it. There were a few fake downloads for it, and a few shady ones too, so didn’t do that. So I took my Mac DVD and found that wasn’t good enough, but didn’t want to install Mac OS X on my laptop again. wait what? really? I don’t have that anymore. Apparently I needed a file from my Mac Partition, no. I found out that the module wasn’t loaded. So the next line gave me “60” as the page said: This I could understand, and it was easy enough too. Oh wait, should have known to read before I act, now I read that “decreasing the Swap” was important. I’m hoping that was the last of updates I needed, and went for another reboot. Right, might as well install that, and so I did using the Driver Manager (it actually worked! It didn’t in Mint 13). Installing missing drivers? Ohw, right, so I would want “nvidia-current” then? It did say that that one was recommended in the Driver Manager. ![]() Apart from some text while loading being bigger? Oh well. After a reboot I didn’t really notice anything different though. I thought that was a change big enough, so I installed it. So yeah, I was running -37, and now 43 was available. According to the man (or woman) only to “look for the latest 3.13.x kernels, because older versions are of no use”. I didn’t really know what that meant, so took a peek. Then it said something about installing kernel updates. ![]() ![]() So yeah, that was a good one, And changed that to 1 day The Windows Updates annoyed me enough and to think about it I don’t even check my email that often. The update interval I thought was too soon as it is, it was every 30 minutes or so I believe. And apparently it’s a good thing too, I had a laptop, with Broadcom, from before 2010 and something about “better not to update”, great. Having this laptop will be going to be hard enough as is, and don’t want any strange updates causing harm I can’t fix (yet). So I ended up doing a few of those too, Apply all the updates, well I did that, but I didn’t improve or changed the update manager, neither did I enable security updates for level 4 and/or 5. (for more of the steps, please read here, it was very detailed about the things you need to do: However while looking up a few things, I came across a website “10 things to do first in Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon” In the previous post, I updated my installation of Linux Mint and got my Wireless working. There are 2 easy ways to untar, either you type in "tar xzf " and follow up with the ' The readme was very useful actually, so I was pleased with that, however it contained a whole lot more information than I needed, so here is a shrunk down version įirst of all you create a directory, change into that directory and then untar the file. I downloaded the 64-bit driver and readme files here: And there is an official download available for that (which you can download using another system and usb devices, or using a network cable. Since it's a macbook, it's using a Broadcom driver. What are those steps you say, well I'll even write them down: I have had a few problems with this one in the past, so I had learned how to "make" a new wireless driver. Okay, so first up, what I did was running all the updates quite simple, just run the next bit a few times, until it's up to date:Ĭode: Select all ~ $ sudo apt-get updateĪfterwards it's checkable by running "Driver Manager" I found this in the start menu later today. Now, at this moment my laptop is running a dual boot of Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon and Windows 7, that's right, no mac partition anymore (note1: yeah, I found out this would indeed bite me in the rear a few hours later today, but oh well). This being a few of my first things I do within Linux (only have only basic knowledge of Linux so far), I decided to write this, both as a documentation for myself as for other people having the same transtional problems, and as a bit of entertainment. But hey, I like a challenge so here goes: I'm an avid reader here and have found an answer to previous problems here repeatedly, now I haveįinally decided to actually join and tell you my story about my experience with Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon, on a MacBook 2009 early model no less (slightly advanced people think: ‘oh oh.
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