I have an Acer Aspire 1800 17" laptop, used to be running Windows XP, but I have installed Linux Mint 16 Cinnamon, since Windows will soon not be supporting XP.

According to the Acer website, I have a Foxconn wifi card in the laptop, but Linux only shows an ethernet connection.
I have the driver for the wifi card (windows only install, not found a linux version) but I can't install it to see if that would solve anything....