Hello,
Wonder if anyone can help me.
I had an old Thinkpad 240 laptop going spare, so I thought I would plunge into the world of Linux.
Downloaded the latest Kubuntu distro (not the Beta one) Edgy Eft.
I must say that I was impressed with the ease that it installed, and whilst my little 'ol laptop is not the greatest, it runs pretty well! LOVE the fuzzy clock!
Everything went fine, except for my WiFi.
I have a PCMCIA 802.11g card, and from the FCCID I *think* its RALINK RT2500 (made by Edimax), but I can't be sure as my knowledge of Linux is rather newbie...
I can see the adaptor under system settings, but when I try and enable it I get an error saying that it could not and has to be done manually.
Now coming from Windowz (yes I know - groan), my first thought was drivers. Therefore I hit google and found what I thought were the correct drivers.
I managed to get the TAR file, stuck it on a pen drive, and transferred it to a directory on the linux lappy (and wow, how easy my pen drive was recognised!).
Now I am a bit stuck. It came with basic instructions, and I managed to unTAR the image, and run various commands that I now cannot remember. I do remember submitting a MAKE and MAKE INSTALL command that worked (after logging in as root), but it still is not recognised.
Is anyone out there willing to push me in the right direction, or give me some *basic* instruction, or tell me I am being stupid! I don't mind!
Thank you so much in advance.
Pete
Wonder if anyone can help me.
I had an old Thinkpad 240 laptop going spare, so I thought I would plunge into the world of Linux.
Downloaded the latest Kubuntu distro (not the Beta one) Edgy Eft.
I must say that I was impressed with the ease that it installed, and whilst my little 'ol laptop is not the greatest, it runs pretty well! LOVE the fuzzy clock!
Everything went fine, except for my WiFi.
I have a PCMCIA 802.11g card, and from the FCCID I *think* its RALINK RT2500 (made by Edimax), but I can't be sure as my knowledge of Linux is rather newbie...
I can see the adaptor under system settings, but when I try and enable it I get an error saying that it could not and has to be done manually.
Now coming from Windowz (yes I know - groan), my first thought was drivers. Therefore I hit google and found what I thought were the correct drivers.
I managed to get the TAR file, stuck it on a pen drive, and transferred it to a directory on the linux lappy (and wow, how easy my pen drive was recognised!).
Now I am a bit stuck. It came with basic instructions, and I managed to unTAR the image, and run various commands that I now cannot remember. I do remember submitting a MAKE and MAKE INSTALL command that worked (after logging in as root), but it still is not recognised.
Is anyone out there willing to push me in the right direction, or give me some *basic* instruction, or tell me I am being stupid! I don't mind!
Thank you so much in advance.
Pete
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