Hey, sorry, first post.

I'm installing Ubuntu on a second partition alongside my Windows 7 installation, and I recall last time, with several distributions, my WiFi adapter simply would not work on Linux.

The company (BrosTrend/Mediatek) says the dongle is compatible with Linux and provides drivers as seen here...

http://www.trendtechcn.com/Product.a...d=322&TypeId=2

Unfortunately, I have NO earthly idea how to install such drivers. I've looked this up countless times. I've been hesitant to put my question out online for fear people would say "UTFSE!" (use the flipping search engine), but here it goes.

Can someone tell me how I'm supposed to install these drivers? I'm certain I have long discarded the manual, although it was so poorly written I would have no use for it presently, I'm sure.

I cannot connect through ethernet cable, so I need to be able to install these drivers and connect with the dongle while being completely offline.

Thank you in advance, regards~

Nix

(the dongle works just fine in Windows, as does almost anything with double click install simplicity)

I believe the installation has something to do with this...
https://www.mediatek.com/products/broadbandWifi/mt7610u

I downloaded the linux package. You can open the file with ark ( it is a .zip archive ). There are several .pdf files included in the package.

This is source code, and has to be compiled on your system, and installed after the source code is compiled.

The place to start is to do some searching on how to compile source code on a linux system. It has been several years since I ran a buntu system. Back then, the tools to compile code were not included in the base system install. You may have to install them first.

Can you tell us why your ethernet adapter does not work? Most of them work with little or no effort. Post the output of the command 'sudo lspci' as a starting point. That will tell us what hardware is present.

Without the tools to compile, you are not going to have success without going online and installing them.