Netgear WG511 v3 HOWTO - Breezy Badger 5.10

*** I have edited this post to incorporate some of gt24's comments ***



I'm not sure how these instructions will work with other versions of Ubuntu. I used all of the following in Breezy 5.10.



1. Unload the prism54 module.



Before getting ndiswrapper, unload the prism54 module from your system. Ubuntu detects the WG511v3 on boot and loads the prism54 module. Although this card does have a Prism chipset (you can find out by typing "lspci" in the terminal), v3 is not currently supported by the prism54 project:

Code:



sudo modprobe -r prism54







Also, add a line containing the following to the /etc/hotplug/blacklist file using your favorite text editor (must have root privelages).



Code:



prism54



That will prevent your system from loading the prism54 module at boot. (Thanks bimberi)



2. Install ndiswrapper.



Code:



sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils





3. Download the driver.



cd into a directory you prefer and type in terminal and:

Code:



wget http://www.smc.com/files/AV%5CDR_2802wV.2_WHQL.zip





Please let me know if the above step doesn't work. If you get a 404 error, it may just be that the file no longer exists at that location.

Unzip the file:

Code:



unzip AV\DR_2802wV.2_WHQL.zip







4. Load the driver.

cd into the "Driver" directory and cd into the "WinXP" directory. In this directory, you should see a file named "2802W.inf". In the terminal, type:

Code:



sudo ndiswrapper -i 2802W.inf





Check to see if the last step went okay with:

Code:



sudo ndiswrapper -l





You should see:

Code:



Installed ndis drivers:

 2802w   driver present, hardware present



*** gt24 told me (see below) that the drivers on the CD worked just fine and that the link I've posted above no longer works. If anyone finds a working link for v3, let me know and I'll update this. ***



5. Load the ndiswrapper module.



Code:



sudo modprobe ndiswrapper





Make sure everything went okay. Type in the terminal:

Code:



dmesg





Hopefully, you will see the following at the end of this output:

Code:



[4298557.630000] ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)

 [4298557.760000] ndiswrapper: driver 2802w (SMC,04/29/2004, 3.0.11.1) loaded

 [4298557.771000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:07:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)

 [4298557.771000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:07:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

 [4298557.772000] ndiswrapper: using irq 10

 [4298561.706000] wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx using driver 2802w, configuration file 1260:3890.5.conf

 [4298561.706000] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP



Your hardware should now be good to go. Please note that the x's above will be replaced by your NIC's MAC address.



6. Connect to the internet.



Use the Network Adminstration Tool in Breezy to connect to your router. This should be the easiest part. If you run into trouble with this last step, please check other posts and the Wiki before posting here.



7. Make things easy.

If you are successful and don't want to have to modprobe ndiswrapper after every boot, simply do the following:

Code:



sudo ndiswrapper -m





Also, please let me know of any errors in this post. I'm not sure if what I pasted as far as the dmesg output goes, will be what you get, especially the #'s in the brackets, but you should see the text not bracketed. (If this is wrong, someone please let me know)





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