These are instructions to install the Buffalo WLI-USB-L11G under Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 + Hoary 5.04. I assume you have installed the kernel and have booted into it. You will need some packages from the internet so you have to find out a way to get them.

1. Download the driver from http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/orinoco-usb/RPMS/orinoco-usb-0.2.2-2_generic.src.rpm

2. Install the necessary packages for kernel module compilation with

   apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`  

3. Open the rpm with some application like FileRoller or if that doesn't work with unp:

   sudo apt-get install rpm unp
   unp orinoco-usb-0.2.2-2_generic.src.rpm

4. Unpack the archive to some handy location:

   tar jvxf orinoco-0.2.2.tar.bz2

5. Go into the new directory

   cd orinoco-0.2.2

   and run

   make && sudo make install

6. If there was no error message, you are done. Hotplug should load the module at the next startup. Alternatively, you can load the module by hand with

   modprobe orinoco_usb

   If you get an error at this point, you may need to unload the old module first

   rmmod orinoco hermes

   and try to load it again.

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