Hadn’t used laptop in a while and the battery was dead. After charging, I started it and Mint wasn’t finding built in Wi-Fi adapter. It doesn’t have Ethernet so I need Wi-Fi. What to do…what to do? I had an old Canakit USB Wi-Fi adapter that I got with my Pi. I tried that but the laptop didn’t even see it. Luckily I had another USB Wi-Fi adapter (even older and much bigger), that did work. I had to use a USB cable because it was too fat, to allow my USB mouse adapter to be next to it. So now I’m downloading 931 MB of updates. Hopefully an update will fix my internal Wi-Fi adapter problem.
Well that was different!
During the update I got…
UEFI Secure Boot requires additional configuration to work with third-party drivers. The system will assist you in configuring UEFI Secure Boot. To permit the use of third-party drivers, a new Machine-Owner Key (MOK) has been generated. This key now needs to be enrolled in your system's firmware. To ensure that this change is being made by you as an authorized user, and not by an attacker, you must choose a password now and then confirm the change after reboot using the same password, in both the "Enroll MOK" and "Change Secure Boot state" menus that will be presented to you when this system reboots. If you proceed but do not confirm the password upon reboot, Ubuntu will still be able to boot on your system but any hardware that requires third-party drivers to work correctly may not be usable.
It asked me for a password…finished the update, and I rebooted!
OK! However at re-boot, It asked me for the password, it’s all text based, and when typing the password it doesn’t show asterisks, as I was expecting. So I wasn’t sure I was typing. So after the first screw up. I re-entered it and assume it was OK.
And Wi-Fi worked!