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Netgear WG311v3
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6 5576 09-08-2008
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83% of reviewers None indicated 9.0



Description: This is a PCI wireless network card for speeds up to 54 Mbps.

I managed to install it, but not without effort. Refer to this post:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=400257

I purchased this card because I needed a 54 Mbit card, and I checked for Linux compatibility before I bought it.

However, once I received the card it turned out that it was WG311v3, which is fully incompatible with WG311v2 and WG311v1.

The problem is, while purchasing it (over the Internet) you don't have ANY idea what version it is.

I do not recommend buying the WG311. Who knows will it be built using a different chip next time? Netgear simply does not deserve that you buy here if they reserve the right to change the hardware completely without specification, and providing Windows drivers only.

I know this is no problem for most consumers, as long as everybody uses Windows(R). Oh well... that was pretty much how Windows(R) was intended to be used.
Keywords: Netgear WG311v3 wireless network card 802.11/bg
/sbin/lspci output: 0000:00:0e.0 0200: 11ab:1faa (rev 03)
Chipset: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g
Connection Type: PCI


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Old 09-17-2006, 06:10 AM   #1
jimbo7
 
Registered: Jun 2006
Posts: 19
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.17.7
Distribution: Debian



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Please see my WG311v3 LINUX WIKI here:
http://www.jimbo7.com/wiki/index.php...1v3_LINUX_WIKI
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Old 09-17-2006, 10:16 PM   #2
HoOLi
 
Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: SuSE 10.2
Posts: 17
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.16.13-4-default
Distribution: Mandriva 2006 / Suse 10.1


Along with wireless-tools, ndiswrapper rpm is needed to be installed. Then I copy the WindowsXP variant files as drivers, to a convenient location.

As root in a terminal:
ndiswrapper -i /install/path/wg/WG311v3.INF
ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper -m

Data transmission works well with encryption.

Negative aspect is that I don't seem to be able to use iwspy with the card
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Old 01-27-2007, 05:51 PM   #3
BraRice
 
Registered: Jan 2007
Distribution: FC6
Posts: 5
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6
Distribution: Fedora Core 6


Used Jimbos wiki with a little change since I wasn't running the same Distro and got it working in around 10 minutes. Only problem I am having is that I can connect using a browser but am having trouble with yum or any other terminal command that tries to access the web. This is a FC6 problem though. The card and drivers work great.
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Old 07-25-2007, 02:40 PM   #4
Dumfrey
 
Registered: Jan 2007
Posts: 9
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 6

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6-20.18
Distribution: Ubuntu 7.04


I had a ton of problems until I compiled the latest NDISWRAPPER from their sourceforge page. I used the chipset drivers downloaded from the marvell site, and had a wpa2 connection in 10 min. Box is only 15 yards from router, so signal is good. No noticed problems with the card since install of latest ndiswrapper.
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Old 07-05-2008, 08:46 PM   #5
pietro
 
Registered: Jul 2008
Posts: 0
Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 0

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64
Distribution: fedora9


I installed ndiswrapper as described elsewhere. ndiswrapper -l shows

wg311v3: driver installed
device (11AB:1FAA) present

modprobe ndiswrapper seems to work but dmesg reports an error

kernel is 64-bit, but Windows driver is not 64-bit;bad magic: 010B

I cannot find any way round this so will be installing some other device.
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Old 09-08-2008, 06:31 AM   #6
kazuni
 
Registered: May 2003
Distribution: Linux Knoppix 2.4.22-xfs #1 SMP Fr Okt 3 20:36:25 CEST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
Posts: 248
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.24-19-generic
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04LTS Installed


ndiswrapper works fine.

All I had to do is install wine, let it run the installation CD, then point tho the inf file with the ndiswrapper (I had ndisgtk/ndiswrapper-common/ndiswrapper-utils installed) and it works flawlessly. Better than my previous RTL8185L Trash that crashes my pc all the time with linux and windows xp.

ndiswrapper -l shows:
_______________________________________________________________________
wg311v3 : driver installed
device (11AB:1FAA) present


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ndiswrapper -v shows:
_______________________________________________________________________
utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '1.9'
module details:
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/ubuntu/misc/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
version: 1.52
vermagic: 2.6.24-19-generic SMP mod_unload 586
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