Hi I'm having problems with my netgear wg311v3 wireless card. I've installed ndiswrapper and I'm using a vista 64bit driver as I'm using 64 bit ubuntu 10.10. Also I have a ralink rt2400 based card in there which seems to work without drivers but it keeps dropping out and showing 14 % signal strength. When I run lshw -C network it shows that ralink card is registered with wlan0 and using driver rt2400pci and the netgear isnt registered to any interface and doesn't have any drivers. Also ndiswrapper is happy saying that the hardware is present.

Hello,

I found this thread for you - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...g311v3-400257/

Hope that helps, if not, let us know.

Cheers,

Josh

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Thanks Josh but that page explains what I have already done.

Ahh ok. Yeah the 64 bit drivers are flaky on linux systems via ndiswrapper. Check out the following link:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=320111

Hopefully that might help. I normally do not recommend using ndiswrapper, as you are not using linux specific drivers. I do recommend using a different chipset though. Good luck with everything, and maybe that link will give you what you need. Sorry bro!

Josh

Thanks again but I've already come across and tried that thread. I'm planning to buy a new wireless card, what would you recommend to work out I of the box on ubuntu 10.10?

That is really up to you. I have the alfa awus036nh, and it works without a hitch, running under Fedora 13. Read my blog about what I did in order to get it to work if you are interested

Can you find an XP driver instead of the Vista driver? I think I read somewhere that ndiswrapper is designed for XP drivers and very few if any Vista drivers will work.