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[cismarel]

Hi guis. This is my first tutorial and i hope it will be useful for ubuntu beginners users.
Source: https://help.ubuntu....vice/CompaqW200

First you must to launch a terminal window (The terminal can be found at Applications menu -> Accessories -> Terminal)

Copy and paste this, line by line ( in termninal the paste shorcut is Shift+ Insert):

sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion linux-headers-`uname -r` gcc-3.4-base cpp-3.4 curl

For those who have ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10:

svn co -r 1273 https://orinoco.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/orinoco/branches/usb/

For 7.04:

svn co -r 1276 https://orinoco.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/orinoco/branches/usb/

For 7.10:

svn co -r 1297 https://orinoco.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/orinoco/branches/usb/

For 8.04 (2.6.24-16-generic), 8.10 (2.6.27-7-generic) and 9.04:

svn co -r 1300 https://orinoco.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/orinoco/branches/usb/

Download this: http://sourceforge.n...l.com&counter=1
and save it in home-> your user-> usb

Then put in console line by line:

cd usb
patch -p0 <orinoco_usb-2.6.27.patch

make
sudo make install

 cd firmware
  ./get_ezusb_fw

For 6.06 and higher:

  sudo cp orinoco_ezusb_fw /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/

For 5.04 and 5.10:

  sudo cp orinoco_ezusb_fw /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware

To activate the adapter do:

  sudo modprobe -v orinoco_usb

After a kernel update you must to repeat this steps. For more detaills you can see the ubuntu official site.
I wish you a productive day! ;)