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

[Robert McWilliam]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013, at 08:31 AM, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> So, if you please, what should I do next?

With the wireless card being listed as unclaimed there will be no loaded
driver for it. 

I think the reasons split along two lines: the driver you installed
doesn't work with the card or the driver isn't getting loaded. We can
hopefully figure out which it is by manually loading the driver. 

If the driver is properly installed then `sudo insmod <module name>`
should insert it - it will then be shown in the list from `lsmod`. After
that check again with `lshw` to see if the wireless card is still listed
as unclaimed. If so, that isn't the driver for this card (or has some
bug such that it isn't picking it up). If it is now claimed then check
if it's working and we can sort out getting the module loaded
automatically in future.

Robert

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