Lubuntu 14.04 installing wine or driver?

[aandril]

I'm relatively new to linux/Ubuntu in that I've never gotten past to actually using it.

 

I now have Lubuntu 14.04 Core Trusty on my system.

I pulled a WiFi driver and wine3.0 over onto my desktop from my external drive.

 

I'm just trying to get internet.

I also have my WiFi adapter driver exe on my external.

 

I've tried doing (from putting these folders in downloads directory)

sudo tar xvf ~/Downloads/*foldername.ext* -C /lib/firmware

 

And the terminal had then shown (read) all the files in those folders.

 

Apparently according to the Ubuntu forums all I had to do was reboot.

But no WiFi found and I can't seem to locate Wine.

 

I just need to get my WiFi up so I can download the new wine, or install wine3.0 so I can use it to install my WiFi driver exe.

 

Someone's help please?

 

[Sauron]

Is there a reason you went for 14.04 instead of 18.04? 14.04 is 4.5 years old at this point, it's almost end of life. There's a chance the newer version will have the driver you need by default.

 

Also, you can't use wine by itself for a system driver. You need ndiswrapper.

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/43752/how-to-install-a-wireless-card-in-linux-using-windows-drivers/

 

although I'm not sure it's still supported, that article is from 2011...

[aandril]

8 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Is there a reason you went for 14.04 instead of 18.04? 14.04 is 4.5 years old at this point, it's almost end of life. There's a chance the newer version will have the driver you need by default.

 

Also, you can't use wine by itself for a system driver. You need ndiswrapper.

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/43752/how-to-install-a-wireless-card-in-linux-using-windows-drivers/

 

although I'm not sure it's still supported, that article is from 2011...

I want to have a system with the lowest possible ram usage.

 

Ndiswrapper.  I'll try that later.

 

 

[Sauron]

14 minutes ago, aandril said:

I want to have a system with the lowest possible ram usage.

The newer versions don't use any more ram.

[aandril]

3 minutes ago, Sauron said:

The newer versions don't use any more ram.

From what I've read they use 1-1.5GB of ram...

 

Lubuntu 14.04 uses 128-275mb

[Sauron]

Just now, aandril said:

From what I've read they use 1-1.5GB of ram...

Definitely not, I don't know where you read that.

[Radium_Angel]

34 minutes ago, aandril said:

I also have my WiFi adapter

What model Wifi card do you have?

[aandril]

9 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Definitely not, I don't know where you read that.

https://linuxhint.com/check-ram-ubuntu/

 

And other Google results tell me around 1GB 

[aandril]

7 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

What model Wifi card do you have?

Dunno.

I've got a Gigabyte B360N mobo that includes a WiFi adapter. And my WiFi adapter driver exe when installing says Intel pro series

 

I went to the Linux website with network adapter and downloaded 3 different ones from different versions of the pro series links. 

[Sauron]

2 hours ago, aandril said:

https://linuxhint.com/check-ram-ubuntu/

 

And other Google results tell me around 1GB 

That's "regular" Ubuntu, not Lubuntu. The screenshot I posted is from Lubuntu.

[Guest]

Ubuntu 18.04/10 uses 1.1GB, Kubuntu 0.5, Lubuntu and Xubuntu 0.3