getting a netgear wg 311 v2 adapter to work
 

I have a compaq evo 2.4/512/27 computer, dual boot of win-xp and ubuntu 8.04. The problem is I have a wireless netgear wg311 v2 adapter, it works with win-xp, but can not get it to work with ubuntu 8.04 tried using ndiswrrapper using windows-xp drivers but still can't get it to works. Please can somebody walk me through it, Thanks in advance,leroyg

could you please run "lspci" in terminal and post the results here. This will show us if your desktop can see the card.

This is my lspci output:

leroyg@leroyg-desktop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
05:04.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
05:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VM (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)
05:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 09)
leroyg@leroyg-desktop:~$
Thank you Leroyg

Let me start over, I have a compaq evo d515 2.4/512/27 computer, dual boot of win-xp and ubuntu 8.04. With a netgear wg 311 v2 pci wireless adapter. The apartment I stay at has a wireless internet network that I want to hook up to. Was given a password using password and enter a little information was able to get on with my win-xp side. Now with Ubuntu 8.04 I install ndiswrapper ,in the terminal found my network card and chipset, install my win-xp netgear drivers, made sure ndiswapper and drivers are install, went to network window enter network name and password don't know what kind of WEP key it is need help to finish configuring network and card hookup, Thanks in advance Leroyg

Usually it can automatically detect what type of encryption it is. Is there any reason why you're using ubuntu 8.04? They're up to 9.10.

You could try installing wicd. (It's a network manager)
'sudo apt-get install wicd'

Sorry it took so long to get back, but is there another way of getting my netgear wg 311 adapter to run without using ndiswrapper. Which did not work for me. Thanks in advance, Lerpyg

Could you please do:

lspci -vv -s 05:04.0

And post output here.
Thanks

The output is
leroyg@leroyg-desktop:~$ sudo lspci -vv -s 05:04.0
[sudo] password for leroyg:
05:04.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface
Subsystem: Netgear Unknown device 4c00
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 66, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
Region 0: Memory at fc520000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Region 1: Memory at fc500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Thank you in advance, Leroyg

Why do you think that ndiswrapper doesn't work for you?

That was not all output for sudo lspci -vv -s 05:04.0.

Could you please post all output.

Thank you.

First if you could give me step by step instruction to get netgear wireless card program I might be able to get it to work, but the instruction I have doesn't work, if not instructions how about a link that might work for my oper system Ubuntu 8.04 thanks, Leroyg.

After going over my notes and googling again I tried again, make sure ndiswrapper is install, use my netgear cd and install win-xp drivers. Went to System-Administration-Network-Network Settings, click on Wireless Connection, then go to network icon on right top of monitior and right click icon and click on enable networking and enable wireless, then left click network icon click on network name, start up internet and after you connect to internet it might ask for login name and pass word. Thanks for help Leroyg

Well done getting it to finally work. I recommend marking this thread as solved, it is in the thread tools menu.