Building a new PC with various inherited components including Netgear WG311v3 card (Marvell Chipset). This card works OK in XP with supplied native drivers. No Linux native drivers so I am trying ndiswrapper. This almost works, but not quite. ndiswrapper loads the XP driver and sees the hardware according to . When the module is loaded at boot time, dmesg reveals that it initially treats the card as wlan0 and then renames it to wlan1 - I am not sure why this happens and it might be a clue as to what is going wrong. I have fixed rc.inet1.conf and wireless.conf to refer to wlan1 instead of the more usual wlan0. But whatever I do the system just does not seem to be able to use this interface. shows that the card is working and displaying a signal strength of 20-30/100. But shows no signal strength at all for wlan1. just times out like and eth0 with no cable plugged in.

Grateful if anybody can point me in the right direction.

Hi,

You could try the win2k driver for this device. Download it and use it with ndiswrapper.

Thanks for the reply, Onebuck. I tried the win2k driver instead of the XP one but I had the same problems. Was about to give up and then I realised that the WEP encryption mode was set to "restricted" and should have been "open". was all that was needed. Win2k and XP drivers both working now with this setting.

Hi,

Glad to hear your up an running. I try the Win2k drivers whenever the WinXp don't fully work or just down out don't.