my linuxmint 16 experience... 48hr downtime...

it started like this...

at first, it's just one of those usual update/upgrade...

but i was playing with .wine stuff and things... and they weren't working... so, i was doing some autoclean...

then, suddenly, all gone,

i could login to the desktop, but there's no launcher bar and so on, ie. i can't launch a thing...,

then, the rightclick didn't give me much choice either...

therefore, it started the 48hr downtime,

i gotta move my nearly 450G data somewhere,

luckily i bought a new 1T HDD, else... (down the drain!)

and of course, it took some time,

cos, i gotta move the files, and also, gotta find out what to move, not to say that, i'm so familiar with linux, right???

so, in between, there're quite a bit of research to be done,

while on my windows PC, i gotta look for new linuxmint, or new ubuntu...

then, I installed linuxmint 16, ooi?? network doesn't work, it wasn't detecting my wifi...

i panicked a little bit... seriously i don't quite like to "solve" problem, especially my brain's trained to be a mother/housewife type of thinking, rather than err... looking a script and troubleshooting...

anyway,

after checking here and there, and with my brother...

and after doing a few installation of either linuxmint 15, 16, 14, and ubuntu 13.10...

all failed...

my brother told me, it's driver's problem, but then, why do i see my wireless detecting other networks except my own one??

however, it IS the wireless card's driver's problem... ie. my broadcom 4313, on my compaq notebook... hm!

i finally found it on the linuxmint forum,

and... mm... cos, i somehow need a connection, so, i used my handphone as the hotspot, download the patch from the linuxmint onboard software centre,

everything solved, everything done...

now, it's still in the midst of restoration, mind you!