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

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 28/01/13 07:45, Simon Greenwood wrote:
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> On 28 January 2013 03:16, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rowan.berkeley at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 27/01/13 19:26, Phil Dobbin wrote:
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>         On 01/27/2013 06:52 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
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>             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:
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>         '$ 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?
>
>
> The driver code tarball is most likely to be in your Downloads 
> directory if you used a browser to download it. You will have to 
> access it and build it from a terminal.
>
> I'm not sure how you get to questioning whether the solution works 
> without testing it and more to the point not knowing which network 
> your machine has. You can find that out by pasting the following code 
> in a terminal:
>
> lspci | egrep -i --color 'network|ethernet'
>
> Post the output here if you can't interpret it.
>
> Installing linux headers won't affect the OS.
>
Um, yes.
Ethernet controller is Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express (rev 05)
Network controller is Ralink 3290

So the thing I downloaded from Orbit labs was wrong. Honestly, HP 
themselves do not specify any of this in their online so-called specs.
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