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

[Robert McWilliam]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013, at 08:05 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote:

If I might return to this issue I have with activating wireless on the
Compaq, I believe I have located the correct network driver and
installed it, but I'm still seeing no wireless option beneath the fan
symbol in the notifications bar. What I need to do is investigate from
the terminal, check that the driver is present, attempt to activate it,
and identify any rival, dysfunctional drivers that may be there unknown
to me and still need blacklisting. If anyone feels like walking me
through the code for all this, I hall be much obliged.



You can tell what driver is in use for the network card with lshw:
`sudo lshw -C network` will give a listing of all the network cards in
your system. In the configuration line for each one there will be an
entry "driver=something".



Robert



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