noviceuser's questions

I've got dual boot windows 7 and ubuntu 16.04 running on a Dell Optiplex. On both operating systems there is no indication of a dvd drive being installed at all. The drive will spin when a disk is inserted but nothing will ever pop up.

ls /dev

doesn't show anything relating to dvd or cdrom or dvdrw.

Windows device manager also doesn't have a category for the dvd drive.

I'm just wondering if there is a way to diagnose the issue, and if the cause of it could be the partitioned hard drive. I can't seem to get any information about the dvd drive in either windows or ubuntu.

Would an exterior disk drive perform better in this case?

Thanks!

I've noticed a lot of people having similar issues with finding a driver for NETGEAR A6100 AC600 WiFi Adapter.

I've been struggling with a lot of the threads and drivers posted on github. Many of the ones listed are referencing a rtl8812au driver while I believe my particular one is a rtl8811au.

I ran the wireless info script that is floating around and these are my results https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/XDnGNYcKPT/

I did get this driver to make and install but it doesn't seem to do anything. https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8812AU I still don't have any wireless connections popping up.

Any help on this matter would be much appreciated..