That is to say, get the file, put it on a USB, then install the file in (for example) the downloads directory and then install it from there. I think what I need to do is perform these tasks manually without internet access. My laptop does not have a female connector for a patch cable. So all these suggestions of using this command, or plugging in a patch cable to access the internet is not working for me.

I have to get the internet first, then I can download and install the driver. None of these solutions will work for me simply because I have no internet. Wget -N -t 5 T 10 & chmod +X wireless-info &. In general, every single one of them says use some version of one of these commands: git clone -b v5.6.4.2 cd rtl* Not even a CAT patch connector) and came up with a number of pages where people had this same problem. Remember this LinuxMint computer has no internet at all. So I tried to find out what kind of software drivers I could use, and so I searched the internet (on a different computer. It needs some software drivers to make it work. However there isn't any software associated with it. It is my understanding that this tells me that there is hardware installed. It's perfect except that it cannot detect any wireless signals.

So I deleted the entire system, and installed Linux Mint. It ran perfectly for one whole month,then updated, and went into 'Not an authorized Microsoft Product' mode and locked me out. I bought a new laptop, and my IT guy installed Windows 10 on it.

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