Hello,

I have a NetGear WG311v3 wireless card which I am trying to configure on an Arch Linux installation. I will need to use ndiswrapper to install it, but it's not in the official repository and the link to the arch user repository is broken.

How do I get ndiswrapper running on Arch Linux?

Thanks for the help.

Hi. If the install does not work with your repos and hardware,

make sure you have the appropiate repos, and sometimes you need to wait.

Arch have a great wiki, link...
That's a really old (2011) post. ...but do you have AUR on your repo list?

64bit (old too, 2009) https://sites.google.com/site/subtle...or-linux-amd64

This post is a few days old, but this is the way I did it. This article is for ubuntu but a few changes
and it worked on slackware with the same card that you have. So it will surely work on arch with a few changes!

For the first I removed ndiswrapper
$ sudo apt-get --purge remove ndiswrapper-*
after I went http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/files/
and I downloaded the testing version (but I think the stable work well too)
I unpack the file and copy the directory in my home user /home/luca
now with bash I reach the directory
$ cd /home/luca/ndiswrapper
do the command :
$ make distclean
$ make -C driver clean
now install with commands
$ make
$ sudo make install
now reach the windows files
$ sudo ndiswrapper -i /home/luca/wg111t/netwg11t.inf
I check
$ ndiswrapper -l
netwg11t : driver installed
device (1385:4251) present
I mount the drivers
$ sudo depmod -a
(was here the errore Fatal etc.)
$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
now my wifi card is lighting
For run the wifi card on boot :
$ sudo nano /etc/modules
and write of the end ndiswrapper :
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

lp
ndiswrapper

I hope this is helpful for someone

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