Wireless problems on a Gateway Series M computer

[Eino]

This computer had Windows Vista. The hole drive was formated, and Ubuntu 11.04 installed. I have tried multipliable drivers, found one that works but, it doesn't show any extensions. Here is the setup text, I would like to here any input on the subject.

[jayd512]

Take a look at this thread.
It seems you may need to install Ndiswrapper to get things going.

[Eino]

I have just done the same thing for the third time, It shows the hardware being present. It still don't show it the network connections. It must be something I'm missing like a change in a sys file. In the windows files. At this point I'm just guessing.

[rokytnji]

It shows the hardware being present. It still don't show it the network connections.

what does

sudo ifconfig -a

show?

Your wireless chip is

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:2a08] (rev 03)
	Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [11ab:2a08]
06:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Gateway 2000 Device [107b:0380]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169

your original ifconfig -a showed no wireless.

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:b8:e4:d0:17  
          inet addr:192.168.1.7  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:b8ff:fee4:d017/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:4083 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3757 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:3737280 (3.7 MB)  TX bytes:776089 (776.0 KB)
          Interrupt:43 Base address:0x4000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:720 (720.0 B)  TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)

If you installed ndiswrapper correctly. Something like wlan0 or Eth1 or ra0 may show up for wireless.

[MikeTbob]

Did you do a

modprobe ndiswrapper

Any errors?
Check the output of

dmesg

and post any relevant messages about the card.

[Eino]

Thanks everyone, Oh Ya !!! I got it working !!!
Gee the site won't let me post the url that I followed.

[MikeTbob]

Send me a Private message and I will include the link for you. Thanks for posting.

[Eino]

Here is all the steps to get the wireless working.
First I had to install wine because the driver was an windows exe file. After opening the program, and the files i closed wine.
1. opened the terminal
2. entered in "cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/NETGEAR/WN511T/" to change the directory.
3. sudo ndiswrapper -i NetMW14x.inf
4. sudo ndiswrapper -a 11ab:2a08 netmw14x This came up with a warning just ignore it, and move on.
5. sudo ndiswrapper -m
6. sudo depmod -a
7. sudo modprobe ndiswrapper


I had a problem with the wireless after reboot or shutdown. I had to run modprobe ndiswrapper in the terminal. I tried a script with just the modprobe ndiswrapper, but it didn't work this is what worked.


gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/wirelessfix.sh

when the file pops up type in:

#!/bin/bash
cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/NETGEAR/WN511T/
sudo ndiswrapper -i NetMW14x.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -a 11ab:2a08 netmw14x
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

then save the file and go back into the terminal

cd /etc/init.d/

sudo chmod 755 wirelessfix.sh

sudo update-rc.d wirelessfix.sh defaults

The system take a few more seconds to start, But I have a reliable connection. I haven't tested to see what happens after the notebook goes to sleep.

[jayd512]

Good deal!
Thanks for posting the steps. This may help others who are running into the same issue.