On 27/01/13 19:26, Phil Dobbin wrote:
On 01/27/2013 06:52 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Hi,
As you may recall, I bought a Compaq CQ58 with Windows 8 on it, and
converted it to Ubuntu 12.10 using a USB stick. I have tried to follow
the instructions given here in rather scattered form:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2103062
I installed linux-headers-generic build-essential, as they say to do,
then I downloaded what is apparently the most recent driver:
http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.6/compat-wireless-3.6.8-1-snpc.tar.bz2
and the terminal said it had saved it with exactly that title. But I
can't extract it with a cd command, no matter how I phrase it, because I
get "no such file or directory". Why is that?
cd won't extract the file. For a 'tar.bz2' extension you need to pass
the following command:
'$ tar -jxvf compat-wireless-3.6.8-1-snpc.tar.bz2'
whilst you're in the directory that contains the above file.
Cheers,
Phil...
Well, thank you. I don't know how to navigate back there, it will be
simpler to download the driver again. It may be that this particular
model of CQ58 uses a Racal driver; there's a french Ubuntu forum where
the user says that his model does. HP don't give detailed specs anywhere
on their website. But unused drivers lying around don't do any harm (and
hopefully neither do irrelevant Linux headers). Isn't it odd that most
of the code given in that Ubuntu forums solution is wrong, yet the
questioner says it worked for him? Or would it have been not wrong in
earlier Ubuntu versions?
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