ndiswrapper troubles. Netgear wg311v3 does not show up as wlan0 (or anything else)

wutzu · 11-23-2009, 12:57 AM

Hi all,

I'm trying to get a netgear wg311v3 to work on my desktop computer. I'm running Fedora 12 64-bit, which makes this even more complicated from what I've read.

Quote:

Kernel: 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64
# lspci
...
01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
...

I've tried the Marvell Windows XP 64 drivers thus far.

Quote:

[root@Hammer ~]# ndiswrapper -i /home/User/Downloads/Marvell/Inf/WinX64/netmw126.inf
driver netmw126 is already installed
[root@Hammer ~]# ndiswrapper -l
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
netmw126 : driver installed
device (11AB:1FAA) present
[root@Hammer ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

[root@Hammer ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:01:23:45
inet addr:192.168.2.108 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::204:61ff:fe01:2345/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5373 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4209623 (4.0 MiB) TX bytes:1093871 (1.0 MiB)
Interrupt:29 Base address:0xc000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:01:23:46
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:30 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:240 (240.0 b) TX bytes:240 (240.0 b)

After setting up ndiswrapper, I still have no wireless. Does the warning message in red have anything to do with it?

I've done this exact same thing and rebooted, but that didn't help at all.

chiragrk · 11-23-2009, 04:31 AM

My 1st impression is that item in red isn't a problem. Can you check `dmesg | grep eth` and see what device is your wireless card?

wutzu · 11-23-2009, 01:26 PM

Quote:

[root@Hammer ~]# dmesg | grep eth
forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.64.
forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: PCI INT A -> Link[APCH] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: setting latency timer to 64
forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x5043 @ 19, addr 00:04:61:01:23:45
forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: highdma csum vlan pwrctl mgmt gbit lnktim msi desc-v3
forcedeth 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[AMC1] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
forcedeth 0000:00:09.0: setting latency timer to 64
forcedeth 0000:00:09.0: ifname eth1, PHY OUI 0x5043 @ 19, addr 00:04:61:01:23:46
forcedeth 0000:00:09.0: highdma csum vlan pwrctl mgmt gbit lnktim msi desc-v3
forcedeth 0000:00:08.0: irq 29 for MSI/MSI-X
forcedeth 0000:00:09.0: irq 30 for MSI/MSI-X
eth1: no link during initialization.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

It's showing eth0 and eth1, which are onboard Nvidia ports. Nothing I can see about ndiswrapper or wireless anything.

Redaphex · 12-27-2009, 11:49 AM

The red is not the case here - it's just a warning message. You can actually fix it if you navigate to /etc/modprobe.d/ and rename ndiswrapper to ndiswrapper.conf (doing this will require you to modify ownership of the file.)

konsolebox · 01-04-2010, 02:48 AM

Probably it means that use of config file /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper is already deprecated and might no longer be used in the next newer versions of ndiswrapper so as Redaphex suggested, renaming it might just fix it.