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

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 28/01/13 09:53, Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>
It's still greyed out.