[Preston] Help Needed: Installing Wireless Software

Georgina Joyce gena at mga.demon.co.uk
Thu May 22 18:55:37 BST 2008


Hi

Could you paste the installation instructions in a post here?

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 18:27 +0100, Chris Tompkins wrote:
> The cunning plan is to install a Wireless LAN USB Adapter ("Dongle"?). 
> The package states that the driver supports (amongst other things) Linux 
> Debian, so I am assuming that I can install it on my Ubuntu systems 
> (version 8.04)
> 
> The problem is one of knowledge, attempts at things like RTFM are 
> currently beyond me.  The task is, as far as I can tell, to add some 
> software in a directory called: /etc/Wireless/RT73STA/.
> 
> The request is for someone with knowledge of this sort of thing to 
> explain what the words in the "Build Instructions" mean.  (All of the 
> documentation and software exists on a CD.)
> 
> The way my brain works, I'm a slow learner and I think I'm a couple of 
> stages before I can go to a typical help forum.
> 
> I'd be grateful,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
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