WiFi driver problem Netgear

[Aravind Singh]

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Dear Friends,

i have a WG311V3 Netgear 54Mbps WiFi card and have no linux driver for it. can any one help me with how to get this driver and installing it and having my wireless connection up and running. i have downloaded some driver but am not sure about it that it is the required driver or not or will it work or not. i am working on Mandriva 2008.
waiting for respose

Aravind Singh

[waterhead]

First, I must tell you that multiple threads about the same problem or subject are not allowed. Besides, it is just plain confusing!

Now about the wireless. You will need to know more about the wireless in order to set it up. Enter this into a terminal (as root) and post the output.

# lspci

Unless it is a USB wireless.

# lsusb

[Aravind Singh]

Well more details about my wi fi card is it is Wireless - G PCI adapter WG311 with 54MBPS

[root@localhost aravind]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)00:02.0
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE
Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
00:1d.0
USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)00:1d.1
USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)00:1d.2
USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)00:1d.7
USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)00:1e.0
PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)00:1f.0
ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1
IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)00:1f.3
SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5
Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M)
AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0
Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)

[root@localhost aravind]# lsusb
Unknown line at line 2389
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:0084 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Whta should i do

Aravind Singh

[waterhead]

This would be the wireless.

 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)

A little searching found that this card should work with NDISwrapper
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/j...3/id,list_0-9/
Look at cards #6, #7 and #10. Since NDISwrapper uses the WinXP driver, if you hve one that came with your wireless, I would try that one first.

There also appears to be a new Linux driver for some Marvel Libertas chips.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_....html#Libertas

I don't know if it supports your card or not.
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers

It seems to work only in Ad-hoc mode. So it may not be a viable choice. If it is showing up as a network connection, then there is a Linux driver that is already loading for it.

I also see a mention of it needing firmware loaded to work. You could run this command, and then check for any mention of the wireless and firmware. It will output a lot, so check it all.

lspci

Post any relevant messages.

[waterhead]

Check out this listing for NDISwrapper, look at card #29.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/j...3/id,list_m-n/

[Aravind Singh]

Thank you all,
After reading an article on the wifi in the article section i was able to solve the problem and have installed the WIFI driver sucessfuly and now internet is working fine if any problem arise i will certainly ask the questions.

Thank you all
Aravind Kumar Singh

[waterhead]

Please tell us how you solved the problem.

[LuisC-SM]

This is an update to this thread

Please tell us how you solved the problem.

I believe we will never get an answer from the original poster, however, the only way I know is with NDISwrapper so steps are as follows. (BTW I'm using openSuSE 11 GNOME x86)

1. install ndiswraper
2. Download the driver from this address:
NDISwrapper
(I used Nr. 4 BTW)
3. Extract it in Desktop (or any other place you like)
4. Open a terminal/Konsole change to the extracted directory and; as ROOT, type:

ndiswrapper -i Mrv8000c.inf

and to check if it's installed

ndiswrapper -l

that should display something like this:

mrv8000c : driver installed
device (11AB:1FAA) present

5. Type

 modprobe -m 
depmod -a  # and the last
modprobe ndiswrapper  # this will load the module

6. Enjoy surfing

Luis

[dougspeak]

LouisC-SM If you would please help again... I believe I have eEthernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 802.11b/g Wireless in an EMachine W3644 box

My lspci shows:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2)

00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2)

00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2)

00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)

00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI Express bridge (rev a2)
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6100 nForce 405] (rev a2)

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:07.0 Communication controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. Device 2f40
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless (rev 03)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

The wireless internet was working fine under Windows XP, but I would like to move to Linux. The link in step 2 above takes me to ndiswrapper's wiki - I do not see a Nr. 4. Any help would be great. Doug

[oz]

Welcome to the forums, dougspeak!

Please start a new thread with the details of any issues that you are having. This thread is two years old, and LouisC-SM hasn't logged in for nearly 19 months, now.