After the fight with this netgear wnda3100 driver myself, I decided to see the size that the internet contribute as I saw many people with the same problem and different solutions offered online that not everyone understand.
The button with the installation is that you have to leave Windows the necessary files and then make them compatible with Linux, which is made by using ndiswrapper
This is written for absolute Linux or Ubuntu beginners so far advanced, do not complain.
Netgear
The button with the installation is that you have to leave Windows the necessary files and then make them compatible with Linux, which is made by using ndiswrapper
This is written for absolute Linux or Ubuntu beginners so far advanced, do not complain.
Netgear
- How to use your .sys and .inf files (completed on Windows)
- Since most Linux noobs like I come from Windows I assume you have the adapter installed on a Windows system. Navigate to your Applications directory (under Windows) and locate the NETGEAR folder. Look for the Windows 2000 or XP folder and copy all files there.
- If you do not have access to a Windows systems to extract the driver files, there is a way to do this directly in Ubuntu using "wine". Since this requires more handling on the Ubuntu system, and since this is written for absolute beginners, I will not discuss that.
- Getting the ndiswrapper package files
- These files can be found here. You need all three.
- Put the files on your Ubuntu system
- After you have the files you put them in a folder on you Ubuntu system. Note that the driver files must remain their permanently so chose a location that you will not remove later.
- Install the ndiswrapper packages
- Open the terminal window. There are several ways to do this. The simplest is the key combination Ctrl + Alt + T. Further possibilities are available here .
- Navigate to your directory where you are, the ndiswrapper files with the "cd" command.
- Run the following Linux commands:
Sudo dpkg -i ndiswrapper-common Sudo dpkg -i ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 Sudo dpkg -i ndisgtk
Make sure you do it in this order. If you have any errors check the names after the '-i' command, since you may have your files have a different name or download server.
- Installing the drivers on Ubuntu
- Navigate to your System Settings (top right) and search for Windows Wireless Drivers. This can also be performed by applications -> System -> Windows Wireless Drivers.
- Type your password, and then use the menu to select the. Inf file (step 1), which you saved to Ubuntu to the driver installation.
- Check the installation
- Reach your terminal again and type: sudo lshw-c network. Next, to the Ethernet interface, you should now see something like this:
- -network
- Description: Wireless interface
- Physical id: 1
- Logical name: wlan0
- Your network configuration
- Navigate to your Network Manager by clicking one of the icons in the upper right corner. Here you can now select the desired network and configure it. You can use the same data as in Windows.
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