Wifi not working with Ubuntu

[sathyan]

Just installed Ubuntu 11.04 (64-bit) over the weekend as a dual boot with Win7. Everything is working except for wi-fi. My wi-fi dongle is Asus USB-N13 which works in Windows but was not detected by Ubuntu. Under the network indicator menu (or whatever you call that icon at the top right), it says firmware missing. I went to the Asus driver site to download a driver and it gives instructions about manually editing configuration, doing $make and to load the driver:
$/sbin/insmod rt3070sta.ko
(this file, rt3070sta.ko, is missing)
$/sbin/ifconfig ra0 inet YOUR_IP up
(this command, ifconfig, is missing)
(Installing a .deb I can do, but this is beyond me)

any help is appreciated

 

[ArisVer]

For my wireless driver i downloaded a .deb package from somewhere (don't remember now, i just searched for it). It was a contributors package, some companies don't give out their source code. It extracts the firmware files needed for the card to work.

 

[lxskllr]

Check out this thread...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1419504

People seemed to have luck with the instructions found in post #35. I'd carefully read the whole thread before starting though. You may find some other useful information, as well as an alternate install method I read in there.