Newbie - Wireless Device "Not ready"

[harryjamesuk]

Hi,

I am new to Linux, Using Ubuntu but when I tried to go on the Networking information, It says my device is "Not ready".

By this, I know it means the Driver isn't installed so I looked online and found this driver: http://www.wireless-driver.com/realt...macos-drivers/ for my device.

I read the readme which said " 1. In order to make the driver to work, the fold under firmware need
to be put under the fold of /lib/firmware/ or
/lib/firmware/(KERNEL_VERSION)/"

So I tried to copy the folder "firmware" into /lib/firmware/ but I don't have permission to do so.

Hope you can help!

[chili555]

Assuming the firmware file you downloaded is on your desktop, then open a terminal and do:

sudo cp Desktop/firmware/* /lib/firmware

However, I doubt the answer is precisely that. I assume the driver in question is r8192u_usb. If so, check:

modinfo r8192u_usb

It says, in part:

filename: /lib/modules/3.5.0-23-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192u_usb.ko
description: Linux driver for Realtek RTL8192 USB WiFi cards
version: V 1.1
license: GPL
firmware: RTL8192U/data.img
firmware: RTL8192U/main.img
firmware: RTL8192U/boot.img
license: GPL

That means the driver will look for the firmware files in /lib/firmware/RTL8192U. Therefor, what you probably really want to do is:

sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/RTL8192U
sudo cp Desktop/firmware/* /lib/firmware/RTL8192U

As you might expect, the wildcard * means copy all the files in the folder.

Please post back if you get stuck.