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

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 29/01/13 12:04, Robert McWilliam wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013, at 09:43 AM, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>>   I assume that when
>> you are told to insert or change things in multiple files in the
>> operating system, it's no good just opening them with gedit and changing
>> them on the spot; you have to navigate to them and open them via the
>> terminal and change them with sudo. Is that right?
> To change the system level files (most things that aren't in your home
> directory) you usually need more permissions than your user will have.
> sudo gets you those permissions.
>
> If you're comfortable in a terminal then you can navigate around in
> there and open up an editor with sudo when needed.
>
> If you'd prefer to use gedit to locate and edit the files you can start
> an instance of gedit with the necessary permissions by opening the run
> dialogue with alt+F2 and then entering "gksudo gedit". You'll then
> (probably) be asked for your password and then you get gedit.
>
> Robert
Indeed, well, looking at the instructions on the Ubuntu Forums, there 
are simple examples of doing it from the terminal, which just go "sudo 
gedit..." and then the location. I understand the principle. But if you 
have the time, may I direct your attention to the first post on this 
thread, which is what I followed with the appropriate changes of driver 
name (and the omission of the blacklist instruction, which would have 
blacklisted my own new driver):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1850267
Now when I ran the sudo make and sudo make install instructions, the 
terminal churned out a hundred lines or so of responses, many of which 
were warnings of one sort or another, but eventually returned to its 
normal status, ready for further instructions. So something must have 
happened, approximately corresponding to an installation. But if I can't 
even find the driver with modinfo, under the name it is clearly given as 
having, I have a problem. Is there a master change log I can look at 
which will tell me what I actually achieved or failed to achieve yesterday?