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

[Colin Law]

On 28 January 2013 09:45, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/01/13 07:45, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
> I'm not sure how you get to questioning whether the solution works without
> testing it and more to the point not knowing which network your machine has.
> You can find that out by pasting the following code in a terminal:
>
> lspci | egrep -i --color 'network|ethernet'
>
> Post the output here if you can't interpret it.
>
> Since the above indicated a Ralink network controller, I went looking for
> that. Ralink themselves have merged with another company and completely
> destroyed their old website, but I found a driver for the Ralink network
> controller, here:
> http://download.driverguide.com/driver/RT3060+RT3062+RT3562+RT3592/Ralink/d1803834.html
> I followed all the instructions given in the first post of this thread:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1850267
> But so far, no wireless connection on restart. All the commands in the
> terminal sequence seemed to run perfectly, but I suppose there might be yet
> more rival drivers to be blacklisted.

What does it say under "Wireless Networks" when you click on the
network icon in the top panel.

Colin