Installing Network Card Driver

Tom56 · 04-28-2012, 09:50 AM

I purchased a D-Link DWA-525 desktop PCI adapter and installed it in one of desktops. It works fine with Windoes XP however not with Linux Mint 9 which I also just recently installed to test drive. I located information for installing the driver for this device however I must admit my ignorance with commands in the Linux environment. This is the site I found to help me with my problem: http://steveswinsburg.wordpress.com/...-a-d-link-dwa- Since my machine is not connected to the Internet by wire I used my other desktop that also runs Ubuntu to download the drivers as instructed and saved to a USB drive which I then installed on the desk top with the wireless card. I loaded what was on the USB to My Documents and extracted the file which it did to the My Documents folder. I now can see all the sub folders. Here is where I am going off the rails. The instructions say to extract the package and cd to the directory. I have a feeling the extraction should be to a different directory than My Documents. If I can get this part sorted out I should be able to follow through with the rest of the instructions. I think perhaps because I installed the file from a USB is the issue. Thanks for your assistance.

onebuck · 04-28-2012, 10:18 AM

Hi,

Let's say your download is to user's home directory '~/Desktop/downloads/testing';

Code:

From terminal command line(cli);

~$cd ~/Desktop/downloads/testing
~/Desktop/downloads/testing$tar -xvf tar -xvf DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217.tgz
~/Desktop/downloads/testing$ cd DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217

~/Desktop/downloads/testing/DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217$ pwd
/home/tom/Desktop/downloads/testing/DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217

Notice the last command ' pwd (print name of current/working directory)'. You are now in the directory to continue the instruction(s) an use 'nano' on the configuration(s) files and then perform the make(s).

HTH!

Tom56 · 04-29-2012, 12:34 PM

It took me while to figure out what I was to do with the directions you provided however with a little determination I was able to get where I neede to be. After doing all of that I have an error so I am going to go back and re-do to see if I missed something. I after I do the following: modprobe rt3562sta I received a list of errors so I didn't think that was correct. I like to know how things are done and not just ask and follow instructions in order to get something to work. I have the book "A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux" by Mark G. Sobell which I use often as well. Thanks for your guidance.

onebuck · 04-29-2012, 12:37 PM

Hi,

Just a few links to aid you to gaining some understanding;

  1 Linux Documentation Project 
2 Rute Tutorial & Exposition 
3 Linux Command Guide  
4 Bash Beginners Guide 
5 Bash Reference Manual 
6 Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide 
7 Linux Newbie Admin Guide 
8 LinuxSelfHelp 
9 Utimate Linux Newbie Guide
10 Linux Home Networking
11 Virtualization- Top 10

The above links and others can be found at 'Slackware-Links'. More than just Slackware® links!

HTH!

Tom56 · 04-29-2012, 06:24 PM

I tried to reinstall the drivers and everything seemed ok except after running make && make install the following error is displayed, I have placed an = at the start of each line:
= make -C tools
= make[1]: Entering directory '/home/tom/Documents/DPO_RT3562_3592_3062_LinuxSTA_V2.4.1.1_20101217/tools'
= gcc -g bin2h.c -o bin2h
= make[1]: gcc: Command not found
= make[1]: *** [all] Error 127
= make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/tom/Documents/ DPO...../tools'
= make: *** [build_tools] Error 2

When I run modprobe rt3562sta the following is displayed:

WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will ignored i