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

[Phil Dobbin]

On 01/27/2013 06:52 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote:

> Hi,
> As you may recall, I bought a Compaq CQ58 with Windows 8 on it, and
> converted it to Ubuntu 12.10 using a USB stick. I have tried to follow
> the instructions given here in rather scattered form:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2103062
> I installed linux-headers-generic build-essential, as they say to do,
> then I downloaded what is apparently the most recent driver:
> http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.6/compat-wireless-3.6.8-1-snpc.tar.bz2
> 
> and the terminal said it had saved it with exactly that title. But I
> can't extract it with a cd command, no matter how I phrase it, because I
> get "no such file or directory". Why is that?

cd won't extract the file. For a 'tar.bz2' extension you need to pass
the following command:

'$ tar -jxvf compat-wireless-3.6.8-1-snpc.tar.bz2'

whilst you're in the directory that contains the above file.

Cheers,

  Phil...

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