Wireless Card drivers
 

I need the drivers for a wireless card.
The card is an Encore electronics 802.11 N wireless
Guess a better question would be is there a way to use the cd and install it?
Any help is greatly appreciated

NVM I found the drivers

but how would I go installing them if they aren't tar.gz ...they came from a windows .zip file

You probably have to login as root to install it.

From the command line 'cd' to the folder where the tar.gz file is, then run: "tar -xvf ./<tar.gz filename>"

Check if there is a readme file in there with further instructions. It would normally be.

Mons

Here is a tutorial from ubuntu using the ndiswrapper with windows drivers. There is also a link at the bottom to check and see if you have a native driver availible. I am referring you to this tutorial because it is written more complete than I could have done.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=112526

If there is something in the tutorial you do not understand post a question back and I will try and answer.

Ok I have no idea how to load the drivers with out a working internet connection...I have downloaded them with the laptop and moved them to the Tower. I would have to build the drivers if I follow what the readme file says and again ...lots easier with a wired internet connection. (think this might be one of those instances when Windows has the upper hand) I tried compiling since I have all the compilers but I continue to receive errors

Unfortunately, wireless is probably the worst area and it still require lots of work. Some wireless cards are better supported than others.
My guess is that you are missing some dependency. Try to post the error here. And yes, you do have to follow the readme file as closely as possible.
E.g. to compile a driver like this you often require the source code for your current driver to be installed too. Don't know if that is the case with this one.

Mons

If you are using windows drivers you need to have "ndiswrapper" installed.

ok I will do that ....no I don't have the Windows drivers, I downloaded the Linux package from the site.

So after installing nswrapper....use that to compile the files and install the drivers? Or use nswrapper much like envyng to find the appropriate drivers? Thought about it but I am getting kind of confused lol. Still trying though haha

Stop, did you already install a linux driver for the wireless card? If so we need to get it working. In your earlier post you said you downloaded and could not get it working. What working?

I was thinking you had downloaded 'Windows drivers'.

Take 2 steps back and post the output of lspci so we can see what chip is actually in the wireless card.

NOOO I didn't download the windows drivers....I downloaded the Linux ones from the site. No I have not gotten then installed that is what is confusing me. I went through the step by step instructions and it just confused me. It tells me basically to make any changes I deem necessary and then compile the drivers and then install them so yeah I got a little confised lol. Here is where I found the instructions for the drivers for
Linux:
http://www.encore-usa.com/product_do...d=81_2&pid=269

That is pretty much exactly where I am right now....just have the drivers downloaded and not installed.

Oh and I think why everyone is confused including me is that the file that was downloaded when I dwnlded from the site ...all of them were .zip files and I just extracted them to a location.

Ok do as farslayer says - first do you know how to get to 'terminal' and use it as 'root'?

HOW-TO RT2860 Wireless Driver with Linux Kernel 2.6.27
http://www.ab9il.net/linuxwireless/rt2860.html


You will need to compile those drivers.

I'm a bit confused why your Wired internet is not working on that system and also why you can't compile the drivers on the system you wish to use them on...

The Wired connection is 2 floors below me lol in my dad's computer room and the desktop is WAY to big to lug down there.

Yes I know how to do things like leave GUI and use the sudo command...from there is where I get confused.

Ok I followed your tutorial and it helped quite a bit and I thank you for that....but I have a small problem...I got to the modprobe section annnnd it suddenly can't find the file it should be able to find
I ran the make && make install command and it ran and just as the tutorial said there was a couple errors and I went on and it was seeming to load. Then I hit the modprobe -a and nothing is found....even when I installed the ndiswrapper as well.

Here is the output: