[colug-432] successfully installed Linux Mint.....

[Bill Baker]

I found this while searching the web for your issue.  Since Mint is derived
from Ubuntu, this may work for you, too:
http://datainfer.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/install-ubuntu-on-ideapad-yoga-2-pro/

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Dennis Reeder <reeder1968 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok successfully installed Linux Mint on the Lenovo Yoga Pro.  Easy as
> pie.  And even more importantly the machine actually boots into Mint.
> Looks good.  Runs nice blah blah blah.   Bluetooth works fine.  Wireless
> not so much.  In fact it doesn't work at all.  I cannot toggle the wireless
> on.
>
> Am guessing that maybe I need to hard wire the laptop via an ethernet
> cable.  Connect and download a driver that I might be missing.  Yeah,
> that's a great idea.  Wait.  WTF?  There is no ethernet port on the Lenovo
> Yoga 2 Pro.
>
> So definitely farther along than I was early this morning while sitting in
> Stauphs.  Yes Windows is gone.  Mint is looking good...apart from the
> wireless networking issue.  But then who needs to network.  The internet is
> grossly over-rated.
>
> Denny
>
>
>
> Hmmm.  Do a complete reinstall?  Seems to me that maybe I had the option
> to connect to a network during the install process.  So the device might
> connect to my wireless network during a re-install?
>
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