Netgear WG311v3 Problem
I just installed Ubuntu 6.10 and my wireless card doesn't seem to be recognised by Ubuntu :cry:.
Same happened when I had installed Fedora Core 6. After searching at the internet I have found out that installing ndiswrapper could be the solution. I just want to ask wether anyone had the same problem and had found other solutions. |
Good luck with that, I think you'll need it. According to http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_p...ndname=Netgear there's no support for your card (reported at least).
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Here is a wiki styled howto by someone who installed the same device on their Debian maching.
http://www.jimbo7.com/wiki/index.php?title=WG311v3 Double check however with lspci -v and lspci -n and what controller the device uses and what the unique number is for it. On my system, the lspci -v section of interest looks like this: Code:
03:0a.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) Code:
/sbin/lspci -n | grep 03:0a\.0 Now check out your device at the ndiswrapper wiki. Using the recommended windows driver may help also. http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List |
I have installed ndiswrapper and the wg311v3 drivers. But when i type:
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I found something which is really interesting about this topic. I would appreciate it if anyone reads this. A guy named :::mL::: found the solution by installing "linux-headers". Do you have any idea of how I will install these? |
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