Ubuntu – How to install wireless drivers for Ralink RT5370 offline

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little problem i want to transfer from my windows to ubuntu because its amazing but my wireless usb isnt picked up on ubuntu so its completely offline and i dont know how to download or transfer the driver for it over to ubuntu the computer calls the wireless 802.11n wireless LAN card although on the ralink website that doesnt come up but i think its a RT5370 which i can download on my windows computer but i cant transfer it over to ubuntu via memory stick etc so yeah any help would be appreciated kind of dont want to be forever doomed in windows:D

Best Answer

You are using RT5370 USB device. Download the driver from here.

Give you Name & E-mail address and press Accept.

I assume you download it in Downloads folder.

Now open a terminal by pressing Ctrl+alt+t and type...

cd ~/Downloads
unzip Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07.zip

it will unzip the arcive in same folder.

cd Realtek*

There is a tar.bz2 type file.. untar it by typing

tar jxvf rts*
cd rts*

Now the installation part.

UPDATE : I forgot to mention, you need some dependent package to install sudo apt-get install build-essential to solve this.

make    
make install    
sudo -s    
depmod    
reboot

Done. Hope it helps.

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