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?
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