Installing Netgear WG311v3 wireless card in 10.10

neal12 · 10-04-2011, 04:14 AM

I've found some articles elsewhere, but they refer to 10.04, and don't give me the right options..

corp769 · 10-05-2011, 12:55 PM

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...tgear_WG311_v3
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...0-10-a-876878/

I posted the first link because it contains a link to the drivers made for XP, which should be good, seeing as I have come across success stories with using the XP driver and ndiswrapper. Have you tried this yet?

Cheers,

Josh

H_TeXMeX_H · 10-06-2011, 04:26 AM

I have the same card and I use the RTL8187 drivers (may also be r8187).

I'm not sure why people like to use ndiswrapper when native drivers exist. It must be in the same vein as using unrar instead of 7zip and that proprietary HJsplit instead of split and cat.

corp769 · 10-06-2011, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

I have the same card and I use the RTL8187 drivers (may also be r8187).

I'm not sure why people like to use ndiswrapper when native drivers exist. It must be in the same vein as using unrar instead of 7zip and that proprietary HJsplit instead of split and cat.

I didn't know that... Good to know about the native drivers. Did you get it through your distro, or did you have to manually download them?

H_TeXMeX_H · 10-06-2011, 11:07 AM

On slackware64 13.37 the huge kernel has this driver as a module and the generic kernel as well. So, yes it does come with the distro. I always use a custom kernel, and it is enabled there as well. The drivers work quite well from what I see.

P.S. Sorry for sounding a bit pissed off, it does annoy me tho if people know about a native FLOSS solution and yet choose and recommend a proprietary solution. This is not the case here tho, because you didn't know. It's my fault really, I subscribed to this thread, but because it was Ubuntu-specific I didn't have the courage to reply, so I waited for someone else to do it.