Posted on 07/08/2021 7:42:57 PM PDT by daniel1212
Linux has always been free in their form of remaining free a lot of distros do not contain proprietary drivers video codex and many programs you must pay for, but most make it easy to find them and add them to your system.
I would say your best bet is to read about compiling a driver find the source code and compile it for your OS. You might do a search on Source forge as someone may have already compiled it and have it available for download..
Good luck! "
Thanks but I have seen such and which require a Internet connection to begin with. There should be detection of the adapters and a file that I can put on a USB and direct the OS to in order to configure it. The link to the driver seems to require compiling it. My favorite "fun" distro seems to offer the best hope if i can figure it out and find the actual file.
Thanks for your heart to help.
I do not intended to do the former and tried the latter without success, and I also tried another USB adapter to no avail, however I did get Mint online by borrowing the Alfa 8002.11 (model AWUSO36NH) USB wireless adapter from the rig running Mint that that I had found worked when I installed Linux on it about a year ago, thanks be to God. "Supports driver for Windows 2000, XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, Windows 7, Linux (2.4.x/2.6.x),and Mac (10.4.x/10.5.x)" 4.5 stars out of 1,113 ratings, but "Currently unavailable on Amazon." And I read there are fakes.
Going to leave it for now as I plan to install Linux Mint on a used SSD when it arrives, by the grace of God. Then use the above adapter to get one of the others to work, by the grace of God. Thanks for the help. |
Turn-off Win Update. Simple.
Sometimes you're the pigeon and sometimes you're the statue. If you think about it, the fact that it works almost all the time is marvelous, nobody knows what software you have, what changes to the hardware you made, what weird hardware you have that is failing... memory chips get weak, cpu's failing, all these things have to be,, well they can't all be taken into question. Sometimes this is just magic. Too many variables.
Let me wrap my head around the exact situation here... There is not a packaged .tar driver file you can download to your windows computer and then transfer over and extract it in the proper place in the Linux computer?
Well there is your answer my friend. Not all devices allow Linux compatibility in their proprietary policy. So it is not Linux, The device manufacturer has to agree to allow it to be used with Linux first. And many times they do not supply the drivers to Linux. Sometimes because they are paid by MS not to. And many times you just cannot get past that proprietary firmware. So give those away to someone who can use them and needs them and get one that will be compatible. Those who give generously receive more... :)
But it is not the Linux... The device has to agree to the handshake and mutual agreement.
OK, once again... “just install Linux” Please try Mint 18.3 Cinnamon and upgrade the Kernel. But Kubuntu is worth trying out. It is the one I have not tried yet. Haven’t needed to go shopping yet. :)
https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=246
The James Madison University mirror has been a proven stable download. Helps that they do not compress it, it is raw and uncompressed but will take just a little longer to download.
I responded to a post mentioning Linux.
(In your ‘tread’, are you ‘cancelling’ satisfied users of Linux, now?)
I don’t do anything ‘wireless’ except listening to the radio at night.
My setup looks like a Rube Goldberg contraption - but it works fine for me :-)
There is simply no shown detection any of the 3 USB wireless adapters, thus no "add driver" option. On my own PC I have found two files that I decompressed,
rtl88x2BU_WiFi_linux_v5.2.4.1_22719.20170613_COEX20170518-4444.tar
rtl8821AU_linux_v4.3.14_13455.20150212_BTCOEX20150128-51.tar
However, where to put them and how to make Linux work with them I know not, and think the Kubuntu solution would be better.
I get it... Let me know if it works. In the meantime I will indeed chase down where to stick a driver file. But usually there is a “readme” or “install” text file included with directions. Once moved over to a Linux folder, Linux will let you read that file even though it is still compressed in the Tar package and not extracted yet. It should tell you where to put it.
Thing is, they keep moving those folders around in different versions. Correct folder, it just might not always be where it was when the directions were written. So some digging around to find that right folder is a normal thing. Wish they would quit that... But MS does it too. :)
Once again, using a OS (and I tried 18.3, since I already had that one downloaded) that does not even show detection of any of 3 USB adapters means there is no Internet connection to upgrade the kernel unless I borrow one that works, but there is no assurance that is going to solve the issue, while Kubuntu shows the most promise, and I like its device manager and degree of options better.
Lol, in the meantime... look at the free very detailed tech support happening here and now.
For Linux... And this is a normal in the Linux world. No need to call MS tech support, just mention a problem and a hundred volunteers jump in with real world detailed cures... Not just “I run these three Antiviruses in hopes it will stop that”. lol
Well unless you call someone and have them send you a portable medium with the driver on it you need the net because it is the only easy and logical source. Do it on another machine and transfer it. I will look for the proper folder for you. Which version do you want this path for?
When we were kids on the ranch, we would hook a wire to an isolated top wire of a barbed wire fence five miles long. Used to get Wolfman Jack when he was broadcasting illegal stuff underground from Mexico...
“Radio at night...” :)
Well, I borrowed the USB adapter that works with Linux and then under Kubuntu Device Manager I choose to use the 8812AU adapter that Mint had detected as before and thus works under Linux, but this time I connected Kubuntu via that adapter and so I did not get the "cannot download packages when offline" when I chose to use it (see image in an above post) as instead it it downloaded it. Yet after I disconnected the working adapter there was no adapter and connection to choose.
Back to the drawing board.
No, no one needs send anything. I have at least one driver for at least one of the 3 adapters even if I do not know what to do with them, and being online with the borrowed Alfa 8002.11 adapter that works then I could try one of the "sudo" this and "sudo" that suggestions. However, in 2021 why it is that Linux will not even show detection of such a basic essential piece of hardware and enable to install a driver for it by pointing Linux to a bunch of files you gathered and let it choose the right one, as the competition does? I must say I am spoiled.
I remember my brother hooking up his first crystal radio to a radiator - voices coming out of the ‘air’.
Of course we had TV by then, for years; but it wasn’t nearly as fascinating or magical as hearing that home-made radio...
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