driver load

[eltechoyqr]

how do I add a driver:
I have a dlink  dwa-140b2
the driver is downloaded in my download directory
/home/wayne/Downloads/D_LINK/dwa140_revB_linux_drivers_2130/2010_0413_RT3070_Linux_STA_v2.1.3.0.tar.gz
how and where do I actually get the driver in the system

tried menu  settings  install driver    (Now confused how I actually get thi into the system

using Linux lite 2.2 on dell inspiron b130

[rokytnji]

Be right back tomorrow with the

http://www.ebay.com/itm/181843307607?_tr...EBIDX%3AIT

That I have running in LL 2.6 on the M/C shop computer. I am running the 4.2 kernel though and no driver or firmware install was needed. It works out of the box for me.

[torreydale]

You may have to extract the tar.gz file. 

Then open a terminal in the folder created by the extraction.

In the terminal, type in

Code:

make
sudo make install

Similar instructions for a driver are taken from this link:  http://wiki.lm-technologies.com/display/...ompilation

[eltechoyqr]

tried
1. extracted
tried make and make install as follows

wayne@wayne-celeron:~/Downloads/D_LINK/dwa140_revB_linux_drivers_2130$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
wayne@wayne-celeron:~/Downloads/D_LINK/dwa140_revB_linux_drivers_2130$ make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.


do I need to set a directory  eg  ./

[rokytnji]

As promised. Here is mine.

Code:

~$ inxi -N
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
           Card-2: D-Link System DWA-140 RangeBooster N Adapter(rev.B2) [Ralink RT3072]
           driver: rt2800usb
$ sudo lshw
<snip>
*-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       bus info: usb@2:5
       logical name: wlan1
       serial: 70:62:b8:28:42:dd
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=4.2.0-linuxlite firmware=0.29 ip=<filtered>[code] link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

You need build-essential installed to run make and make  install. I'll let others handle that since mine just works without jumping through hoops like you are doing.

Code:

$ apt-cache policy build-essential
build-essential:
  Installed: 11.6ubuntu6
  Candidate: 11.6ubuntu6
  Version table:
*** 11.6ubuntu6 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[torreydale]

You're in the same folder as the one where the tar.gz file exists.  You'd need to be in the folder created after extracting the tar.gz file. 

Actually, it looks like if you extracted the *.tar.gz file, it would create a *.tar file.  And then you'd have to extract that *.tar file as well.  That would probably create the folder I'm talking about.  Within that folder you'd open a terminal and run the make and sudo make install commands.

Nevertheless, rokytnji mentioned theirs worked right out of the box.  You might want to connect with rokytnji.

[torreydale]

Consider this link.  It is a few years old, but its suggestions might still be relevant:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/34742/how...an-working

Same thing here:
http://ubuntuqa.com/274938/how-do-i-get-...an-working

[rokytnji]

Code:

$ lsusb | grep RT
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 07d1:3c0a D-Link System DWA-140 RangeBooster N Adapter(rev.B2) [Ralink RT3072]
$ lsmod | grep rt
rt2800usb              28672  0
rt2x00usb              20480  1 rt2800usb
rt2800lib              81920  1 rt2800usb
rt2x00lib              49152  3 rt2x00usb,rt2800lib,rt2800usb
mac80211              638976  3 rt2x00lib,rt2x00usb,rt2800lib
cfg80211              466944  2 mac80211,rt2x00lib
crc_ccitt              16384  1 rt2800lib
parport_pc             32768  1
parport                45056  3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
~$

Code:

$ sudo ifconfig -a
[sudo] password for:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1e:xxxxxxx
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:21 Memory:fe9e0000-fea00000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:xxxxxxxx  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:2171 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2171 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:169349 (169.3 KB)  TX bytes:169349 (169.3 KB)

wlan1     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 7xxxxxxxxxx 
          inet addr:192.168.xxxxx0  Bcast:192.xxxxxxxx  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::7262:b8ff:fe28:42dd/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:8467 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8025 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4493852 (4.4 MB)  TX bytes:1319608 (1.3 MB)

[eltechoyqr]

okay it has been a long time since I used make
I am geeting closer with the help form this forum

I have attached two files the first is the output of make  >>  makerror
The second is called make_inst_err  which is the output of make install

make error 1 and 2 I am unsure of even looking in the GNU make manual

I have in etc 1. the directory wireless  which is empty
                    2. the directory Wireless which has RT3070STA
should I have both of these directories?

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[torreydale]

Please review the more recent posts by me and rokytnji.  I think your answer lies somewhere in them.