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    Angry [SOLVED] Wireless Card saying UNCLAIMED

    Sir I have a wireless card I use it to connect to net, It is not working by default so I searched for and found this on help.ubuntu.com

    Code:
    trendyabinash@abinash-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
    [sudo] password for trendyabinash: 
      *-network:0 UNCLAIMED   
           description: Ethernet controller
           product: 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless
           vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
           physical id: 1
           bus info: pci@0000:05:01.0
           version: 03
           width: 32 bits
           clock: 66MHz
           capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
           configuration: latency=32
    In this How to install windows driverssite it is asking for .inf file but I have an exe file as it's driver, how will I get the .inf file???

    PLEASE HELP ME ITS URGENT
    System:-Core2Duo, 2GB RAM, 160GB SATA HD, ATI RADEON HD 5450 GPU

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    Re: Wireless Card saying UNCLAIMED

    You might first try to extract the .exe file by doing:
    Code:
    unzip file.exe
    Replace file with the name of the .exe file. If that does not work and you have a working internet connection in Ubuntu, you can install cabextract.
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install cabextract
    cabextract file.exe
    In some cases, the .exe file contains the .inf inside of it. So either unzip or cabextract could help extract the file. Hope that helps.

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    Re: Wireless Card saying UNCLAIMED

    Thanks for replying so fast I needed it.

    here is the results which I have obtained
    Code:
    trendyabinash@abinash-desktop:~$ cabextract setup.exe
    setup.exe: no valid cabinets found
    
    All done, errors in processing 1 file(s)
    trendyabinash@abinash-desktop:~$ unzip setup.exe
    Archive:  setup.exe
      End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
      a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
      latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
      the last disk(s) of this archive.
    note:  setup.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
    unzip:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of setup.exe or
            setup.exe.zip, and cannot find setup.exe.ZIP, period.
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    Re: Wireless Card saying UNCLAIMED

    Sorry. I did not realize that it was the setup.exe file. Here is a link that might help:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=374167

    It points to another link that has instructions on how to get your card working. Hope it helps.

    EDIT:
    You can most likely use the newer version of ndiswrapper that is in the repository. If you have not done it already, you can install the ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 package.

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    Re: Wireless Card saying UNCLAIMED

    thanks sir But it is quite complicated for me. Don't I have any other choices??
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    Re: Wireless Card saying UNCLAIMED

    You don't really need those instructions. You just need the driver from there. Download this file:
    http://downloads.trendnet.com/TEW-42...PI_b1_2.00.zip

    If you have not done so already, install ndiswrapper:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
    I am assuming that you have not installed any drivers yet. If that is the case, you will need to extract the file in the link above:
    Code:
    unzip TEW-421PC_b1\\Driver\\Utility_Driver_TEW-421PC_423PI_b1_2.00.zip
    Then go into the directory where the driver is located:
    Code:
    cd Drivers/Windows\ XP/
    Install the driver:
    Code:
    sudo ndiswrapper -i Mrv8000c.INF
    Make sure that the driver is installed:
    Code:
    ndiswrapper -l
    It should show that the driver is installed and the hardware is present. If it is there, do the following:
    Code:
    sudo ndiswrapper -ma
    sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
    If you are able to connect, add ndiswrapper to the list of modules to load:
    Code:
    cat ndiswrapper | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

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    Re: Wireless Card saying UNCLAIMED

    I found that my device can work using ndiswrapper but I am not able to find the .inf file for it's installation I found the ,sys file though. But ndiswrapper is stating not a valid .inf file.

    Please help
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    Re: Wireless Card saying UNCLAIMED

    Quote Originally Posted by Ayuthia View Post
    You don't really need those instructions. You just need the driver from there. Download this file:
    http://downloads.trendnet.com/TEW-42...PI_b1_2.00.zip

    If you have not done so already, install ndiswrapper:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
    I am assuming that you have not installed any drivers yet. If that is the case, you will need to extract the file in the link above:
    Code:
    unzip TEW-421PC_b1\\Driver\\Utility_Driver_TEW-421PC_423PI_b1_2.00.zip
    Then go into the directory where the driver is located:
    Code:
    cd Drivers/Windows\ XP/
    Install the driver:
    Code:
    sudo ndiswrapper -i Mrv8000c.INF
    Make sure that the driver is installed:
    Code:
    ndiswrapper -l
    It should show that the driver is installed and the hardware is present. If it is there, do the following:
    Code:
    sudo ndiswrapper -ma
    sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
    If you are able to connect, add ndiswrapper to the list of modules to load:
    Code:
    cat ndiswrapper | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
    Thank you sir for your support, but before rechecking the forum I was searching the net for how tos and I found the site from where I can download my driver files
    I downloaded them and used ndisgtk to install them and NOW I am UP and RUNNING.
    I used the following steps to install my device drivers
    I first installed ndisgtk from synaptic package manager
    then I opened the terminal and typed "lspci", it showed a list, I recorded the number infront of my device and then typed "lspci -n" I found my device ID and searched for the required .inf in google and found it in the following site
    http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/2008/0...d-88w8335.html

    I downloaded them put them in a folder and used system-->Administration-->Windows Wireless Drivers to install it.
    And it was done.

    Thank you a lot. I love ubuntu community
    Last edited by trendyabinash; December 17th, 2008 at 08:09 PM.
    System:-Core2Duo, 2GB RAM, 160GB SATA HD, ATI RADEON HD 5450 GPU

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    Re: Wireless Card saying UNCLAIMED

    Quote Originally Posted by trendyabinash View Post
    I downloaded them and used ndisgtk to install them and NOW I am UP and RUNNING.
    I used the following steps to install my device drivers
    I first installed ndisgtk from synaptic package manager
    then I opened the terminal and typed "lspci", it showed a list, I recorded the number infront of my device and then typed "lspci -n" I found my device ID and searched for the required .inf in google and found it in the following site
    http://lonehacks.blogspot.com/2008/0...d-88w8335.html

    I downloaded them put them in a folder and used system-->Administration-->Windows Wireless Drivers to install it.
    And it was done.

    Thank you a lot. I love ubuntu community
    Awesome. Well done!

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