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

[Robert McWilliam]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013, at 02:35 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> I dunno, I just give up on this. I ran through the whole install 
> sequence again, and I didn't see any warnings or errors at all. I don't 
> know how you select all to cut and paste from the terminal, but there 
> wasn't anything to see except textbook commands and responses. 
> Unfortunately, after this supposed perfect installation, the driver 
> still isn't there, and the wireless hardware is still unclaimed. Maybe 
> it's something simple, like a conflicting driver left over from the 
> original Windows set-up. But I'm sick of wrestling with it, at least for 
> a while.

If/when you come back to this: I find it easiest when I want to capture
the output from a command to redirect it to a file with ">":

   commad > file_name

This will overwrite the output file, if you want to collect the output
from multiple commands you can use ">>" in place of ">" which will then
append the output to the end of the file without overwriting what was
already there. 

Another useful option is "tee" which writes it's input to a file and
standard output, so if you want to run a command and both see it's
output in your terminal and capture it in a file:

    command | tee file_name

Robert

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