[Preston] Help with Installing Wireless Software

[Chris Tompkins]

Firstly, big thanks for the comments so far.

Mike made a sensible suggestion, which was to buy a dongle that works 
out of the box.  I followed up his lead and well, that is the one I've 
got.  Allegedly it "works out of the box" with my current system.  So 
that has suggested some suitable "FM"s to read. (I'm assuming that it 
isn't just ignorance on my part, because the ethernet hardwired 
connection works perfectly.)

Georgina's reply forced me to do a bit of thinking in order to make a 
sensible statement of where I'm at.  One reason for my confusion is the 
information and files on the CD is a load of rubbish.  I went to the 
chip manufacturers website (http://www.ralinktech.com), navigated to the 
  Linux Support page and discovered that I was downloading the driver. 
On opening the .tar.bz I found files that related to the original build 
instructions.

And of course, there is the third option: to use a Windows driver. 
(Thanks for that Mark!)

Thanks again,

Chris