How to install compat-drivers or compat-wireless

Posted by Sasho on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Sasho
Published on 2013-06-25T10:04:22Z Indexed on 2013/06/25 10:28 UTC
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Could someone please explain me in detail how to install some of this drivers. I am running Ubuntu 12.04.2 and have the infamous (as I see everywhere in the net) problem with Atheros AR9462 wifi card. I tried everything to fix it and compat drivers are the only solution that I haven't tried. I tried to install some random package from kernel.org site and it couldn't make the driver (it threw some error). Then I updated the kernel to 3.10-rc7 and downloaded the last release of compat drivers and again the same problem occured. I reinstalled Ubuntu 12.04.2 and now I am using the 3.5 kernel because I don't know if rc7 is stable version. So my question is which compat wireless or compat drivers to download for this kernel and what is the process of installing. I tried with some command from the repository and it returned that it's not found.

PS I am new to Ubuntu and Linux in general so explaining at length the install process and which driver I should install would be appreciated.

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