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Re: [LUG] Installing Tenda W311U wireless dongle drivers

 

On 26 November 2012 09:26, Brown Richard <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Hope you had a good weekend. I'm trying to follow this install for the wireless 
> adapter but not having a cable I can connect the pi with I am hoping that I will 
> be able to download the drivers using a different machine. But it doesn't seem 
> that easy! I have a mac and follow the link but it lists numerous directories. Is 
> there a way in which I can download these drivers please?
>

You should have been able to walk through the directories and  would
have expected it to live under pool/non-free/f/firmware-ralink but i
could not see it there either. As you are just after a binary firmware
blob and not something arm specific for the pi using the debian
package search tool will get you where you need to be from the
official debian mirrors and land you on
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/all/firmware-ralink/download which
gives links to the .deb files from the mirrors.

Don't try this for non arch independent things as pulling in debs in
this way could lead to much head banging and confusion later but for
this particular .deb which is just binary blobs for the kernel
firmware loader to use it should be safe enough.

Robin

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