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

[Rowan Berkeley]

On 29/01/13 09:18, Robert McWilliam wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013, at 08:31 AM, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> So, if you please, what should I do next?
> With the wireless card being listed as unclaimed there will be no loaded
> driver for it.
>
> I think the reasons split along two lines: the driver you installed
> doesn't work with the card or the driver isn't getting loaded. We can
> hopefully figure out which it is by manually loading the driver.
>
> If the driver is properly installed then `sudo insmod <module name>`
> should insert it - it will then be shown in the list from `lsmod`. After
> that check again with `lshw` to see if the wireless card is still listed
> as unclaimed. If so, that isn't the driver for this card (or has some
> bug such that it isn't picking it up). If it is now claimed then check
> if it's working and we can sort out getting the module loaded
> automatically in future.
Sadly, it isn't installed or anywhere near it. This is the second time I 
have followed instructions found on an Ubuntu Forum thread and acclaimed 
by the original questioner there as the answer to his problem, but found 
that they seem to have no relation to the world I and my machines 
inhabit. The driver package I have downloaded is the correct one, I'm 
fairly certain, and I have extracted it to my Home folder, but the 
driver package is a whole folder in itself, containing among other 
things an incredibly long notepad file giving very lengthy but 
presumably executable instructions for building and installing the 
driver. So I shall have to try and slog through that. I assume that when 
you are told to insert or change things in multiple files in the 
operating system, it's no good just opening them with gedit and changing 
them on the spot; you have to navigate to them and open them via the 
terminal and change them with sudo. Is that right?