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Where to get a .inf file

Asked by chuckmagic

Well, I'm still noobing around being nooby...

So, I have been having problems with the wireless on my pc. I've been doing some research and apparently, ubuntu recognizes the wireless card and the status is "UNCLAIMED". The pc uses a lite-on wireless card (i have no idea how this could be) and a driver by ralink. When I look up the driver it is "netr28x.sys" but there is no .inf file at all when I look for one. I went to ralink's website and it makes no sense to me.

I managed to get the ndisgtk/ndiswrapper installed in ubuntu (i think i did it right). But where on earth do i get the .inf?

I cannot run a LAN cable from my router to my pc...

Thanks for all the help,
chuck

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#1

please post the output of

lspci

command here please

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chuckmagic (cmazed) said : 		#2

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus (rev a1)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor (rev a2)
00:01.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Realtek ALC1200 8-Channel High Definition Audio Codec (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 RAID bus controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0ad8 (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Ethernet (rev a2)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:12.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 077a (rev a1)
00:14.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Device 077a (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control
01:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 70)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0601 (rev a2)
04:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. Device 8880 (rev 0f)
05:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Device 0781

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nhasian (nhasian) said : 		#3

RALink provides linux drivers here: http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html

alternatively you can find the .inf file in the Windows driver download from the manufacturer's website.

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