EDIMAX EW7811un installation

[rhyssarge]

Hey guys,

I am new to Ubuntu and not at all familiar with the terminal and the commands but my windows has started becoming slow and wanted to try this out. However, I can only connect to the internet using my EdimaX ew7811un wireless usb adapter because my laptop is that bad!

The problem is, I cannot find the disk to install the edimax software on my ubuntu (linux) and do not have a clue where to go from here when it comes to downloading drivers or using commands etc. I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 if that helps.

If anyone can help me, it would be soooo great!

Cheers,
Rhys

[praseodym]

Hi,

please open a terminal with CTRL+ALT+T and show the outputs of these commands:

uname -r
lsusb
rfkill list
iwconfig
lsmod

Copy the outputs to a text file and upload the content. Do you have the chance to connect via cable?

[rhyssarge]

yoo man, I have attached a file with all my details from the termianl. And to your question, I cannot use a wired connection as the lead is too small!

Im using wireless now, but i wont have it for long in my bedroom!

Thanks for the help man

Rhys

[praseodym]

Obviously, there is a wireless card inside? Module "b43" is for Broadcom devices. Lets check:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net

[rhyssarge]

rhyssarge@ubuntu:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [11ab:4354] (rev 13)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02aa]
Kernel driver in use: sky2
--
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

[praseodym]

Here we are

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer

Wireless card should work now.

[rhyssarge]

cheers mate, what else will i need to do now?

[praseodym]

Unplug the stick and setup a new wireless connection after reloading the driver (or rebooting):

sudo modprobe -rfv b43
sudo modprobe -v b43

For the stick you may want to update the driver. Please show:

uname -r

[rhyssarge]

"rhyssarge@ubuntu:~$ uname -r
3.5.0-17-generic"

and

[sudo] password for rhyssarge:
rmmod /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/bcma/bcma.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko

This is all that happened..

I'm sorry if im doing stuff wrong haha

[rhyssarge]

oh, and

"rhyssarge@ubuntu:~$ sudo modprobe -v b43
insmod /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/bcma/bcma.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko"