Caution: I'm a newb.
Hardware: Giada i35G, cedar trail atom with Nvidia gf119, railtek ethernet and Ralink 3290 for wireless.
Already accomplished: Installed Ubuntu 12.10, loaded GPU drivers and redirected sound out through GPU card to HDMI. Ethernet works like a charm.
Issue: Can't get my wireless up and running. There seems to be no package to which I can simply run a sudo apt-get install
.
I found the corresponding Linux driver from the manufacturer's site, but I have not managed to find out what to with the file.
Here's the manufacturers site.
I get a file with the following name: \2012_0508_RT3290_Linux_STA_v2.6.0.0.bz2
I hope somebody might be able to tell me what to do next.
Thanks for reading and apologies for potentially asking a trivial question.
Best regards,
Matt
Best Answer
First, right-click the file and select Rename. Rename it to
2012_0508_RT3290_Linux_STA_v2.6.0.0.tar.bz2
; that is, without the leading slash and adding .tar. Now right-click it and select Extract Here. Open the fileos/linux/config.mk
with any text editor and change the line:...to
Proofread, save and close the text editor. Now, with a temporary ethernet connection, do:
...or wherever you extracted the package, if not your desktop.
Please post any errors, questions, etc. Warnings are alright. Your question and this process are in no way trivial.