Wireless Connections

[nivrip]

My daughter has just acquired a laptop from a friend. It runs on Ubuntu which is a bit of a mystery to me. The internal wi fi card is kaput so we tried to get it going with a dongle. This has always been very easy, and successful, with Windows but not with Linux.

It took ages to find the driver for the dongle but eventually I got it downloaded. I thought that when I attached the dongle that some Wizard would appear as in Windows but oh no!

Basically I can't find a way of getting the dongle attached to the driver. Can't even find where the driver is! There is no Program Files section that I can find. I can't find anything like Network Connections in Windows either.

Anyone help me?

 

[Abarbarian]

What desktop Guessing KDE or Gnome

 

[Abarbarian]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs

This might help.

 

[nivrip]

I've got the wireless connection working now.

Thanks AB.