Installing driver for Ralink Realtek 8187 WiFi adapter

[simon174]

I purchased a WiFi adapter online, and it came with an installation CD with drivers. I installed it just fine on Windows, and am now trying on Ubuntu 10.10. The CD came with the driver files for Linux as well, but I have no idea why they aren't working - my guess is that I don't properly understand what to do with them.

I have uploaded the contents of the folder which came with the CD here (http://speedy.sh/7XqkP/Realtek8187L-Linux.zip). There is a README in there, but the instructions under the installation header didn't get me anywhere unfortunately.

The Device ID is:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp.

Thanks.

[ahallubuntu]

Ralink and Realtek are different companies (like Ford and GM).

Your device ID says it is a Ralink RT5370 chipset. This driver may work:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Tenda_W311M

Note that you may get limited support at this point now that Ubuntu 10.10 is no longer officially supported.

[simon174]

Cool, thanks for the reply. That encouraged me to try 12.04.1, and all is good now. Isn't it so nice when things work out in the end? :popcorn:

[kurt18947]

Cool, thanks for the reply. That encouraged me to try 12.04.1, and all is good now. Isn't it so nice when things work out in the end? :popcorn:

A very good reason to use a recent or current distro. I found my wifi adapters required work with 10.XX. They worked OOB with 11.04.