[Bradford] Install a wireless device on linux machine

[David Carpenter]

Hi Paddy.

Wayne's response is quite 'techy'. It's good, but if you're not sure
about using the terminal, it can be quite daunting.

If you're up for learning a bit of terminal usage, then great get in
there, - it's not necessary, but sometimes it can be really useful.

Another place to look is under the System - Administration - Network
section.

That shows your network devices and the USB wifi thingy might just be
there.

If not, a reboot with the device attached might just bring it up.

If not, then someone running a dmesg would be useful! 

If you are on the internet via  a wired connection then someone could
even connect remotely to you and help you sort it out...

One thing from your other post...
.exe files won't execute on Linux, cos they're programs for Windows
machines. As this is one way virus are spread this is a very good thing!
With devices like this they are little programs that install the drivers
for the device - Ubuntu and Linux have their own versions of many
drivers already built in or easily available (sometimes they don't!). I
suspect Ubuntu already has the driver - we just need to get it  and the
device together.

Cheers
David
 
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 16:21 +0000, Wayne Hanley wrote:
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> Hi Paddy,
> 
> When you connect it via USB do you get anything at all? 
> 
> Have you tried looking to see if it is connected via dmesg?  If
> you don't know how to do this, drop to the terminal (gnome-terminal,
> xterm, eterm etc) and do something like
> 
> dmesg | grep usb 
> 
> Have a look through that and see if it's showing in the list.  It
> might also help if you could post that to the list as a attachment.
> 
> dmesg | grep usb > /home/YOUR_USER_NAME/usb.txt
> 
> Will do the trick, of course if you run the command from your home dir
> omit the path and just pipe it to a file.
> 
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>         Hi All
>         
>         
>         Not sure if I have asked this question at the right place or
>         not but here goes.
>         
>         
>         I have recently bought a wireless adaptor for my desktop and
>         as I am such a newbie, I am struggling to install it. Coming
>         from a windows background, I would just insert the CD and let
>         the auto run take care of it. However in Linux this of course
>         won't happen.
>         
>         
>         I have tried Googling, but maybe because of the words I am
>         using all I seem to ever get back is advice on
>         installing Linux from CD, not a device (and its drivers)
>         
>         
>         Can anyone give me some simple tips on how to do this.
>         
>         
>         The device in question can be got to from the below link and
>         is supported on Linux.
>         
>         
>         http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/6107087/-/Product.html?searchstring=Edimax+EW-7717UN+Wireless+N+USB+Network+Adaptor&amp;searchsource=0
>         
>         
>         This is actually something simple that might be worth noting
>         down for the next meeting, as after all, any newbies like
>         myself coming from windows will struggle to do this. Maybe
>         worth while adding it the Wiki.
>         
>         
>         Anyway, thanks all
>         
>         
>         Paddy
> 
> <snip /> 
> 
> 
> 
> Wayne
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