Netgear N600 WNDA3100 USB Wireless Adaptor Issues

[scjohnson]

Hello all,

I just purchased the Netgear WNDA3100 adaptor and used ndiswrapper to pull in the bcmwlhigh5.inf windows driver. It looks like I'm almost there, but I can't tell why it's not working.

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0846:9011 NetGear, Inc. WNDA3100v2 802.11abgn [Broadcom BCM4323]

and

$ ndiswrapper -l
bcmn43xx64 : driver installed
	device (0846:9011) present

look good. But if

$ iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"Wireless-N(2.4G)"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:E0:4C:81:96:D1   
          Bit Rate=9 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on
          Link Quality=41/70  Signal level=-69 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:301  Invalid misc:182   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

shows my old wireless (wlan0). I've been having issues with the onboard wireless card which is why I bought the new one. Any thoughts on why I'm not seeing a wlan1?

Thanks so much for the help!

[chili555]

I suggest you blacklist the driver for the built-in, reboot and try again. I'd also check the message files:

dmesg | grep ndis

This is tricky to get going in 64-bit.

[scjohnson]

Thanks for the note. In the meantime, I determined the ndiswrapper didn't seem to be loaded in the kernel, so I did the kernel dance:

apt-get install ndiswrapper-source
cd /usr/src
m-a prepare
m-a a-i ndiswrapper
modprobe ndiswrapper

and now I see the wlan1 in iwconfig. All seems to be working.

Sorry to come back with an answer to my own question, but thought I'd post it here for others to learn from my stupidities.

[notquitestr8t]

I am in the same boat trying to load this on 12.4 64 bit. I followed your instructions but cannot see anything.Any other ideas? See my output below:

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0846:9011 NetGear, Inc. WNDA3100v2 802.11abgn [Broadcom BCM4323]

$ ndiswrapper -l
bcmwlhigh6 : driver installed
device (0846:9011) present

$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

Lots of "unknown symbol" messages. This is a partial view.

$ dmesg | grep ndis

[ 90.960656] ndiswrapper (import:232): unknown symbol: WDFLDR.SYS:'WdfVersionUnbind'
[ 90.960658] ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:199): couldn't prepare driver 'bcmwlhigh6'
[ 90.960715] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:121): couldn't load driver 'bcmwlhigh6'
[ 90.960743] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper

[chili555]

Getting this working for 64-bit is tricky. I suggest you erase the bcmwlhigh6 you have now and try bcmn43xx64.inf in the package I attached. Post back if you need additional guidance.

If there are any problems, please let us see the relevant dmesg logs again.

[notquitestr8t]

I did some more digging as was able to get this to work.I pulled a driver from another post which worked while the windows driver did not. It is attached if anyone else needs to use it.(Thank you Chili555) The original post is below.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...light=wnda3100

[Alaric]

Good sirs, you are as Gods among men. chili555's drivers worked perfectly on my Ubuntu x64 12.04 installation for my

0846:9011 NetGear, Inc. WNDA3100v2 802.11abgn [Broadcom BCM4323]

After installing the ndisgtk and dkms-ndiswrapper packages through apt-get. Thank you for your time and effort.

[TorrentGuru]

Mr chili555:
Thank you for the 64-bit driver.

Works on kali linux (3.7-trunk-amd64-gnome3.4.2) hosted on VMWare Fusion 4.1.3 (OSX 10.8)
Recomplied ndiswrapper from source to 1.58 and bam! iwconfig shows wlan0!!!!

Now I finnaly have WiFi on my 64-bit distros....Thank you again!

[chili555]

Awesome! Glad it's working!

[patrice.brouillet]

Hi i also have a n600 usb adapter. the driver are install but the ndiswrapper does not reconize the hardware. How do i fix this? I am runing 12.04 lts