[aklug] Re: Linux help for UAA student

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Sat Nov 19 2011 - 11:27:15 AKST

On Saturday, November 19, 2011, Jim Gribbin elucidated thus:
> Hooked up with your buddy Joel at our Friday night session. Got his
> wireless working easily. Almost a no-brainer compiling the Realtek
> driver. Only had to compile as the LTS version of Ubuntu he has
> installed doesn't have quite new enough drivers.

Yeah, we did that when we were up in Fairbanks (a couple times), and I
was able to talk him through the process over the phone, but I couldn't
determine (over the phone) what the driver name was, so I couldn't get
it modprobe'd. Did you also add the driver to /etc/modules so it will
load on boot?

j

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