Return-path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:37987 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751776Ab1GYBNR (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:13:17 -0400 Received: by iyb12 with SMTP id 12so4036921iyb.19 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:13:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E2CC32C.4050201@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20110725_031326_081284_833846AB) Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:13:16 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ZacapuESL M CC: wireless Subject: Re: r8712u driver References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/22/2011 09:42 PM, ZacapuESL M wrote: > Larry, > I'm hoping you can/will help me. I bought an Ansel wireless usb card here in > Mexico. It's a Realtek from what I can gather. The company has a Powerpoint > presentation for installing Linux drivers. It doesn't work for me. I know > nothing about programming but love Linux Mint. The Powerpoint says i386, but the > computer I'm trying to install on is an AMD duo 64. Will that driver work? The > Powerpoint is written for Fedora but as mentioned I'm using Mint. I don't know > if there is other syntax but once I get to the 'ismod 8712u.ko' the computer > locks up. In 'Hardware Drivers' the computer shows I have an rtl871x (written by > Mint) driver activated but can't find it or figure out how to get it to > recognize the usb card. Any help is greatly appreciated. > Leif I need two pieces of information: (1) The USB IDs as shown by lsusb, and (2) the kernel version as shown by 'uname -r'. Larry