Sorry Mark,
Been right busy lately and forgot to reply to this. Always on the Chromebook and sometimes the Android tablet ( that can be very annoying though as it has so many ads, and adblockers don't get rid of them!)

matildaw@ASUS-X102BA ~ $ inxi -Fz
System:    Host: ASUS-X102BA Kernel: 4.15.0-48-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: N/A
           Distro: Peppermint Nine
Machine:   Device: laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X102BA v: 1.0 serial: N/A
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X102BA v: 1.0 serial: N/A
           UEFI: American Megatrends v: X102BA.212 date: 08/30/2013
Battery    BAT0: charge: 0.0 Wh 0.0% condition: 32.7/33.5 Wh (98%)
CPU:       Dual core AMD A4-1200 APU with Radeon HD Graphics (-MCP-)
           cache: 1024 KB
           clock speeds: max: 1000 MHz 1: 883 MHz 2: 926 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini [Radeon HD 8180]
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
           drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1366x768@60.00hz
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD KABINI (DRM 2.50.0, 4.15.0-48-generic, LLVM 7.0.0)
           version: 4.5 Mesa 18.2.8
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Kabini HDMI/DP Audio
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.15.0-48-generic
Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
           IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCIE Fast Ethernet controller driver: r8169
           IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
           Card-3: Atmel
           IF: null-if-id state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (2.4% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: HGST_HTS545050A7 size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 457G used: 12G (3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 68.8C mobo: N/A gpu: 68.0
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 4600
Info:      Processes: 172 Uptime: 39 min Memory: 1623.4/3381.8MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.56
matildaw@ASUS-X102BA ~ $ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: no
   Hard blocked: no
matildaw@ASUS-X102BA ~ $ dmesg | grep -i blue
matildaw@ASUS-X102BA ~ $ hciconfig
matildaw@ASUS-X102BA ~ $ service bluetooth status
? bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: enab
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:bluetoothd(
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I'll be using this notebook over the weekend because my Chromebook's keyboard isn't working properly- so many keys just do nothing when pressed, and not spilled anything over it ever, and never had a problem with it until Google gave me an update notification!!! I rang the Polish computer shop and he said it might be new drivers needed ( it's a fairly old one) so he said to bring it down on Mon and he wil look at it, but said probably I will be best getting a wireless keyboard from Chlas Ohlsen. I don't mind that- they are those better keyboards for typing on anyway.

When I looked it up online it said it did. Mark my computer mouse died last night so I cannot post those commands you gave me until I get another one. I find trackpads imnpossible to cut and paste with. Sorry for typos, I can't use trackpads easily for editing, this has teensy screen so bad typing sorry. And to add insult to injury I woke up to find my Chromebook is dead again and won't charge!!!! I had taken it to the comuter shop and got a new charger for it. It has been working great for 3 days and now it is not. I have to take it to the computer repair shop again this afternoon.

Anyone know how to get my bluetooth speaker to work please? I've been trying and trying since yesterday and it will not work, just a message about a daemon.

Hey guys for some reason I cannot get Bluetooth to work on my Peppermint notebook- there is an icon there but it just comes up with a weird dialogue box and says the "daemon" is not there.

I got a little netbook on Peppermint 9 and just can't figure out how to get to the network manager to connect it. Usually netbooks and laptops automatically have a box that pops up and starts searching for the wi fi. This does not happen.

Sorry once again Mark- just had a lot to do and been unwell again. I have tried 3 times to do what you told me in that link but it  won't go to the boot device selection screen.

What happens is that I tap tap tap the F9 key and the Ubuntu logo flashes like crazy and then a black screen comes up with tons of white writing and it will not do anything else after that and needs to be powered off.

The machine is useless - I think we should admit defeat and I will toss it in the local recycling centre.

I will just have to wait til I can save up or get that grant for the Dell latitude laptop.

It's finally done it! My broadband is so slow these days. I need to ring my internet provider and get it sorted out. I read a router older than 5 years ( which mine is) will not perform properly.

You obviously don't have that file on this PC, so go ahead and download it.

Yes, doing it- it says one hour left- hope it doesn't take that long!