Debian don't find my WPN311

[traeskapa]

Hiya!
I recently installed Debian etch AMD64-version on my computer.
The installation went good, I guess.
But there is a slight problem, the network thingy don't detect my wireless Netgear WPN311 PCI card :/
I know the card is working, because I'm using it now, in Windows to type this, and it worked with Ubuntu AMD64-version a while ago, without having to install any extra drivers.

So I ask you guys, why don't Debian detect it?
And how do I get it to detect it/work?

thanks!

[soccercisco]

ndiswrapper uses you windows drivers for setting up the card under linux.

First, apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils

(The above should install 3 packages)


Then try to follow the instructions beginning at the installation section in this link:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation

[traeskapa]

Thank you very much, I'll try it

[soccercisco]

Please let us know how it goes. And if it works you should update the wiki (or send the folks from ndiswrapper an email) saying that your card model worked (if you browse the wiki you'll see a list of cards, sadly, I couldn't find yours on the list, which means that hopefully you'll be the first one to get it working!!! )

Regards,

[montikiki]

Hi,

Excusez my english I am Francais.

Well,
I spend a long time to make my WPN311 work on an AMD64 Debian Etch configuration.
My WPN311 use an ATHEROS chipset so I used the madwifi-ng drivers that you can find at http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-ng/.

After the classical ./configure make and make install, I used the description of this driver at http://madwifi.org/wiki/ngFeatures.

Now it works fine at a distance of 30 meters of my access point and with the rate 54Mbps

Hope it will work for you

Bye

montikiki

[traeskapa]

Well, I didn't got it to work, because I can't make anything without the kernel source.
apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) just don't work, coz it doesn't find the package :/
E: Kunde inte hitta paketet linux-headers-2.6.17-2-amd64
translated: Couldn't find the package linux-headers-2.6.17-2-amd64
What to do?

[montikiki]

Hi

You have to first upgrade your kernel to 2.6.18.

Have you try apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, another way is to use synaptic.

After upgrading your kernel will be changed and you will have a new line in Grub with 2.6.18

after that you wikk easely find linux-headers-2.6.18-x-amd64 with apt-get or synaptic.

Bye

[traeskapa]

soccercisco: I'll try to get it working the montikiki-way first, then I'll try the wrapper
And, when I try to do it, when I do: "wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta"
It says "lanconfig: ioctl: Input/output error".
Did I do something wrong?

[traeskapa]

Yay, I got it to work with the madwifi-drivers, thanks for your help!