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

[Rowan Berkeley]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Robert McWilliam <rmcw at allmail.net> wrote:

> 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
>
I'll try to figure that out the next time I have somethng really detailed
and not easily described on the terminal screen. Anyway, I attacked the
problem again this morning, and I noticed an interesting thing. The desired
driver, rt3562sta, is listed in the modules available under lsmod, but not
as used by anything. That, I think, means it's installed but unassigned. Am
I right? If so, what should I do to assign it?
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