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Offline andreami

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How to install drivers from a CD
« on: January 13, 2014, 09:21:47 AM »
Hi everyone!

I recently bought the WL300G, an USB Wireless-N Adapter. I want to use it to connect my old NEC Versa Note VX to the internet, but I need to install drivers from the CD... How to do it?

Thank you in advance

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Re: How to install drivers from a CD
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2014, 11:55:26 AM »
Does the NIC work when you boot from the CD?
If so:
Boot from your USB/HD drive.
Mount youe CD.
Copy the files from cde/optional on the CD to your tce/optional.
copy the onboot.lst from the cde directory on the CD to your tce directory.
You can reboot and fine tune your onboot.lst to only include the extensions you need/want.

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Re: How to install drivers from a CD
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2014, 10:09:07 AM »
I mounted the CD but when I copied the files into my /home directory the terminal closed suddenly and the whole system was so slow that you couldn't do anything, so i rebooted it. Then the pc was fine but the files of the CD were not copied..

The content of the mounted CD is:

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Ralink & Realtek_User Guide/
Ralink 2070 3070 3072 5370 5372/
Realtek8187L 2000 XP/
Realtek8187L Linux/
Realtek8187L MacOS/
Realtek8187L Vista Win7/
Realtek8188CU/
Realtek8188SU 8191SU/
SIL3114/
SIL3114R/
Thumbs.db
autorun.apm
autorun.exe
autorun.inf
win-driver/

I tried to view the content of these directories but i couldn't
« Last Edit: January 20, 2014, 10:10:42 AM by andreami »

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Re: How to install drivers from a CD
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2014, 10:22:11 AM »
You don't install drivers from foreign CDs.
You need to use the drivers on the CorePlus CD or from the Core repos.

As I said.\, if the NIC works when you boot from the CD (  that means the CorePlus CD )
Copy the files from the cde directory on the CD to the tce directory on your hard drive.

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Re: How to install drivers from a CD
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2014, 05:58:49 AM »
What do you mean by NIC? The network card of the PC or the USB wireless adapter? How to control if it works when i boot from the CorePlus CD?