I wanted to install elementary on my Dell Mini 1012 but it won't recognize it's wifi (nor does Linux Mint, or Peppermint :(
I had a similar issue but my wifi card was fully supported, trouble was my distro (Mint) found another wifi card and then it proceeded to hard block mine. Try using rfkill list in a terminal to see how many wifi devices elementary finds, you may find that your wifi card is either hard o soft blocked, then you can use rfkill unblock your-wifi-card. If any other device is found you can block it with rfkill. I had a laptop dell and i had to schedule a script to do so at start up. Hope this helps :).
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