Xanth
September 6th, 2009, 11:53 AM
Hi,
I bought a Laptop and have been trying to install Ubuntu on it, I'm having a problem with the wireless. It will display the list of wireless networks but hangs and asks for the password again when I try to connect. I googled around for a while and found this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1110957.html
In particular:
"April 6th, 2009, 08:19 AM
A solution involves downgrading the RT2860 driver to version 1.7.1.1 (the last know fully working driver). It seems to work much more reliably for me at least on 1000h.
1) Get the driver from http://www.array.org/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/eeepc/binary-i386/rt2860-dkms_1.7.1.1_all.deb
2) Go to terminal, and move the pre-installed driver so it won't get loaded.
cd /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/rt2860/
sudo mv rt2860sta.ko rt2860sta.bak
3) Install rt2860-dkms_1.7.1.1_all.deb. It will also install dependencies needed to compile the driver. If it doesn't retrieve the right packages, make sure "build-essential", "linux-header-generic" and "dkms" is installed. Let it run and it should complete without a problem.
4) Restart. The new driver should work automatically."
I'm using 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04. The laptop is MSI EX630.
I get to step 3) and it says: "install: missing destination file operand after 'rt2860-dkms_1.7.1.1_all_deb'" The help menu is confusing and I have no idea what to make of it.
If you can't tell already, I'm a complete noob with Ubuntu.
Any help appreciated
I bought a Laptop and have been trying to install Ubuntu on it, I'm having a problem with the wireless. It will display the list of wireless networks but hangs and asks for the password again when I try to connect. I googled around for a while and found this:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1110957.html
In particular:
"April 6th, 2009, 08:19 AM
A solution involves downgrading the RT2860 driver to version 1.7.1.1 (the last know fully working driver). It seems to work much more reliably for me at least on 1000h.
1) Get the driver from http://www.array.org/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/eeepc/binary-i386/rt2860-dkms_1.7.1.1_all.deb
2) Go to terminal, and move the pre-installed driver so it won't get loaded.
cd /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/drivers/staging/rt2860/
sudo mv rt2860sta.ko rt2860sta.bak
3) Install rt2860-dkms_1.7.1.1_all.deb. It will also install dependencies needed to compile the driver. If it doesn't retrieve the right packages, make sure "build-essential", "linux-header-generic" and "dkms" is installed. Let it run and it should complete without a problem.
4) Restart. The new driver should work automatically."
I'm using 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04. The laptop is MSI EX630.
I get to step 3) and it says: "install: missing destination file operand after 'rt2860-dkms_1.7.1.1_all_deb'" The help menu is confusing and I have no idea what to make of it.
If you can't tell already, I'm a complete noob with Ubuntu.
Any help appreciated