[ubuntu-uk] Netgear WPN111 on ndiswrapper

Roberto Sarrionandia rbs.tito at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Feb 14 10:20:23 GMT 2007


Anything from here

http://linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/


Andrew Gee wrote:
> What one do you recommend to work straight away?
>
> On 13/02/07, *Roberto Sarrionandia* <rbs.tito at yahoo.co.uk 
> <mailto:rbs.tito at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     I couldn't get mine working, I bought a new one.
>
>     Andrew Gee wrote:
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>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > 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 <mailto:andrew at webspot.co.uk>
>     > http://www.webspot.co.uk
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