I can't get my Netgear adapter working

al75275

I just installed Ubuntu on my girlfriend's desktop. I'm a total newbie, I don't even run Linux on my machine, this is my very first install. It works great, except that I can't get it to recognize her Netgear wireless adapter. Can you help me, please? Thanks!

jabirali

Do you know the model of the adapter? And can you please go to Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal in the menu, type the following commands into the terminal that appears, and post the output here?

ifconfig
lspci
lsusb

That might provide us with some useful information about your system

Using a native Linux driver for your wireless adapter is usually the preferred alternative, but in the event that we should not find a suitable one, you should know that it is also possible to load the Windows driver in Linux; this page might provide more information:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper

mfillpot

I agree with Jabir, we need to know the model information to help you locate and activate the proper driver module to make the wireless adapter work. Please provide the information he requested and include the model information from the wireless adapter itself.

marc

jabirali wrote:

ifconfig
lspci
lsusb

As he is running Ubuntu he might need to use:

sudo ifconfig
sudo lspci
sudo lsusb

As well as checking if there is related information in

sudo cat /var/log/messages
sudo dmesg

al75275

It's a WNDA3100. I'll check the code thing tomorrow.

gomer

I'm afraid that netgear has not yet produceda driver for that thing, yet. However, some folks running Ubuntu have had luck w/ NDIS wrapper, though it's a rather involved process:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=690699