On 28/01/13 07:45, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 28 January 2013 03:16, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 27/01/13 19:26, Phil Dobbin wrote:
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...
Well, thank you. I don't know how to navigate back there, it will
be simpler to download the driver again. It may be that this
particular model of CQ58 uses a Racal driver; there's a french
Ubuntu forum where the user says that his model does. HP don't
give detailed specs anywhere on their website. But unused drivers
lying around don't do any harm (and hopefully neither do
irrelevant Linux headers). Isn't it odd that most of the code
given in that Ubuntu forums solution is wrong, yet the questioner
says it worked for him? Or would it have been not wrong in earlier
Ubuntu versions?
The driver code tarball is most likely to be in your Downloads
directory if you used a browser to download it. You will have to
access it and build it from a terminal.
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.
Installing linux headers won't affect the OS.
Um, yes.
Ethernet controller is Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express (rev 05)
Network controller is Ralink 3290
So the thing I downloaded from Orbit labs was wrong. Honestly, HP
themselves do not specify any of this in their online so-called specs.
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