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