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I bought 10Mbps ADSL network connection from Saunalahti . It works all perfect except for this little glitch I had with it: from my Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) or Ubuntu machine, I could not get the wireless network. While a windows machine and two android phones can access the wifi signals from the modem, the Linux machines can't even see the SSID of my network. In the beginning when I had just setup the modem I could access the wireless network from my LMDE machine. I started noticing the problem with the network, when I turned off my ADSL modem one day and in the evening turned it on. While all other machines got the connection as soon as the modem was up, my Linux machine could not detect the signal. After a little bit of messing around, I concluded that, for Linux to receive the wireless signal without a problem and to get the connection after the modem restarts, I need to follow the following protocol. I need to turn the wifi off on the modem by pressing a blue butto

Google turns up many posts explaining how to install the ATI catalyst proprietary drivers on LMDE. Take this post as just an additional information. In my case, the installation did not work until I accidentally installed another package, x11-xserver-utils.  Thus, in my case, the installation of the drivers was as follows: sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx* sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install fglrx-driver fglrx-control sudo /usr/bin/aticonfig --initial sudo reboot I think the reason it worked this way was because computer couldn't recognize the correct graphic device version before the installation of x11-xserver-utils.