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I have posted this on other sites and have not had anyone able to help me. I bought a new Gateway laptop with an internal Realtek Wireless card. Linux does not recognize the card so I contacted the vendor and was given the Linux driver. Now that I have the driver I don't know what directory to install it in to, or what I need to do to install the card so Linux will recognize it.
Some people may or may not agree with me and I've never had a sufficient reason to do it any other way, but I'm sure you can create a hidden directory within /home and install it from there.
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