[ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

[Barry Drake]

On 01/02/13 19:28, Paula Graham wrote:
> So, less confusingly chatty recap: 1. find and download the driver 2. 
> change to driver's folder in a terminal 3. sudo make 4. sudo 
> make-install 5. sudo modprobe [module ID] Paula 

Paula ....  Thanks for talking this one through in such detail. I've 
saved it for future reference.  I know what you mean about the problems 
getting the driver in the first place.  A couple or three years ago I 
bought a wifi dongle and had to compile a module.  There were four 
different drivers I found on the internet for this chipset, and only one 
of them worked.  Next kernel update, the module would not compile 
because of a deprecated function that had been removed in a GCC update 
so I had to re-write a couple of lines in the source.  The following 
kernel update incorporated the wifi chipset so I haven't had to bother 
since, but it was a pain at the time.

Regards,        Barry

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