Wireless PCI Ubuntu#

Daughter love now has her own dekstop op de zolder. I don't want to hassle with cables, so I bought a wireless PCI card.

It is NetGear WG311 V3.
This card works only with ndiswrapper

Installation steps#

• First make a wired connection
• Install all latest Ubuntu maintenance (there was something broken in kernel 2.6.22 regarding ndiswrapper)
• Install ndiswrapper tools, the usual Ubuntu way
• Figure out what the proper drivers are, I tried several versions (before and after the kernel upgrade), and i found this one successful
• further instructions are available on many websites, I found these ones usefull:
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Netgear_WG311_v3
• http://www.jimbo7.com/wiki/index.php?title=WG311v3

In short it comes down to this:

• install ndiswrapper software(as above mentioned)
• sudo ndiswrapper -i WG311v3.INF
• sudo ndiswrapper -l ==> should give you a listing of loaded driver
• modinfo ndiswrapper ==> should give you information on the ndiswrapper kernel module, if not, then your kernel or the ndiswrapper module is broken
• iwconfig should give you a wlan0 device ==> if no wlan0 device, try first iwlist wlan0 scanning
• ndiswrapper -m to ensure that this is loaded each time you boot your computer
• iwlist wlan0 scan should give you a list of availabel access points
• add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules to make sure the kernel module is loaded at boottime

Your config is save in /etc/ndiswrapper

And finally you do the regular IP configuration, ip-adres, default gateway, DNS servers, hosts