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

[Robert McWilliam]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> Maybe I'm being unfair; it's much more probable I'm misunderstanding the 
> statements made on the Ubuntu Forums. Now the driver itself is 
> apparently called rt2860sta. When I do "modinfo rt2860sta" I get "could 
> not find module rt2860sta". Whether correctly installed or not, the 
> whole package is sitting in my Home directory, so why can't modinfo find 
> it? It may sometimes appear with a suffix, viz .o or .ko, but the search 
> should still find it.

modinfo doesn't search the whole filesystem for modules so wouldn't find
one in your home directory. 

You can still test the module from there before installing it properly:
find the rt2860sta.ko file and then run `sudo insmod <path to module>`
The path can be relative so if it's in your shells current directory
./rt2860sta.ko will work.

There probably wont be a built module in the driver package you
downloaded though - it's likely to be source that you need to build.

Robert
 
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