[ubuntu-uk] Netgear WPN111 on ndiswrapper

[Andrew Gee]

What one do you recommend to work straight away?

On 13/02/07, Roberto Sarrionandia <rbs.tito at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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> I couldn't get mine working, I bought a new one.
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> Andrew Gee wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > I've converted my mate to linux when his windows install kept mucking
> > up. He's very impressed so far, especially with the installer! But he
> > has a problem.
> >
> > He owns a WPN111 usb wireless adapter which didn't work "out of the box"
> > on ubuntu. It showed up on System -> Admin -> Networking as a Wireless
> > adapter. But going into the properties of this wireless adapter, didn't
> > show the wireless settings part of the properties that is usually there.
> >
> > So the computer had no network connection. So I got him the DVD version
> > of ubuntu, which included ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper was installed, the
> > driver files were copied to the user folder and they were installed into
> > ubuntu with the:
> >       sudo ndiswrapper -i netwpn11.inf
> >
> > Then added the ndiswrapper kernel module to run. But running iwconfig
> > didn't show any new network adapters. Nothing like ath0 or wlan0.
> >
> > "sudo ndiswrapper -l" shows the network adapter as driver present,
> > hardware present. But still no new network adapter there. Only lo, eth0,
> > and sit0.
> >
> > So... I'm stuck :)
> >
> > Please help!
> > - --
> > Andrew Gee
> > andrew at webspot.co.uk
> > http://www.webspot.co.uk
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Andrew Gee
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