[ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 27/01/13 19:26, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> On 01/27/2013 06:52 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> As you may recall, I bought a Compaq CQ58 with Windows 8 on it, and
>> converted it to Ubuntu 12.10 using a USB stick. I have tried to follow
>> the instructions given here in rather scattered form:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2103062
>> I installed linux-headers-generic build-essential, as they say to do,
>> then I downloaded what is apparently the most recent driver:
>> http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.6/compat-wireless-3.6.8-1-snpc.tar.bz2
>>
>> and the terminal said it had saved it with exactly that title. But I
>> can't extract it with a cd command, no matter how I phrase it, because I
>> get "no such file or directory". Why is that?
> cd won't extract the file. For a 'tar.bz2' extension you need to pass
> the following command:
>
> '$ tar -jxvf compat-wireless-3.6.8-1-snpc.tar.bz2'
>
> whilst you're in the directory that contains the above file.
>
> Cheers,
>
>    Phil...
>
Well, thank you. I don't know how to navigate back there, it will be 
simpler to download the driver again. It may be that this particular 
model of CQ58 uses a Racal driver; there's a french Ubuntu forum where 
the user says that his model does. HP don't give detailed specs anywhere 
on their website. But unused drivers lying around don't do any harm (and 
hopefully neither do irrelevant Linux headers). Isn't it odd that most 
of the code given in that Ubuntu forums solution is wrong, yet the 
questioner says it worked for him? Or would it have been not wrong in 
earlier Ubuntu versions?