[SOLVED] Searching for WiFi drivers for LinuxMint

Machine is a A505-S6005, and LinuxMint is based on Ubuntu distro (which is one of the Debian family of Linux distros).
This is not a rewrite of the HDD; Windows 7 Home Premium/64 is still on the machine. This is a second OS on the same HDD.
Also: Anyone know why the A505-S6005 cannot boot into Ubuntu 10.x? Is it a display-driver issue, as a few have suggested?
Everything except the multimedia keys seems to work, and (since I'm often not at home, but at various places with WiFi) I need the WiFi to simply work. (Linux seems to be much more energy-efficient than Windows, which should extend battery life past the 6+ hours I can occasionally get under Windows 7)
UPDATE:
Linux Mint 10 simply works. Not sure if LM11 will, as I haven't the inclination to break what ain't broke.

tlaloc Thank You, I didn't think of pluralizing it . Can you tell me how you found it so I will know how to better use the repo search command
pacman -Ss
next time?
Also, I used
pacman -Si
pacman -Qi
to find out more about the package and this is the output:
$ pacman -Si units
Repository : community
Name : units
Version : 1.87-1
URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/units/units.html
Licenses : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : readline
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 93.30 K
Installed Size : 275.56 K
Packager : Jeff Mickey <[email protected]>
Architecture : i686
Build Date : Sun 28 Oct 2007 06:56:18 AM MDT
MD5 Sum : 633c38088c3aa6003a95a74277b85101
Description : converts between different units
$ pacman -Qi units
error: package "units" not found
I got those commands from here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … e_Database
I wonder why
pacman -Qi
would tell me there is no such package ? EDIT: Never mind this question, once the package was installed, that command worked
Thanks, I am installing "units" now
Last edited by jackrat (2009-02-01 00:57:46)

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