Having troubles installing Netgear WG111v2 in Feisty

[cody50]

I just tried my same adapter from the 7.04 live cd at a different WAP and everything worked perfectly out of the box (no encryption). I guess I have to do something with my router.

[JohnUK89]

Originally Posted by ~vel i'm not using any sort of security, my network is completely open. ubuntu isn't even showing anything for wlan0

You could try ndiswrapper then, you'll need the Windows ME drivers for the card and the packages ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 installed. The packages are attached, and the drivers can be found at ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/wg111v2_1_4_0.zip

1. Extract the drivers from the zip file

2. Blacklist the modules for the card.

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

Add the following to the end of the file:

blacklist islsm_pci
blacklist islsm
blacklist islsm_usb
blacklist prism2_usb
blacklist r8187

3. Install the driver into ndiswrapper

sudo ndiswrapper -i /path/to/driver/Driver/WINME/net111v2.inf

4. Check the driver has installed correctly

ndiswrapper -l

This should output the following:

net111v2 driver installed, hardware present

You're mainly looking for the driver installed, hardware present part. if that's there continue to step 5. If not make sure no modules are loaded for the card and try again.

5. Install the ndiswrapper module:

sudo ndiswrapper -m

This will add the interface to your configuration.

6. Add ndiswrapper to your modules file:

gksudo gedit /etc/modules

Add the word ndiswrapper to the bottom of this file

7. Reboot and try NetworkManager again.

EDIT: Oops, forgot to attach .debs, they're there now

[vak]

Originally Posted by JohnUK89 WPA is supported in Feisty using the native module, you just need to configure it manually, instead of using NetworkManager. ...

unfortunately didn't work for me. well, i ve made few changes which were logical to my undestanding, but with no final success:

1.

auto wlan0
inet wlan0 inet dhcp

to

auto wmaster0
iface wmaster0 inet dhcp

2. tried to change "proto=WPA" to "proto=RSN"

anyway no success.

meanwhile i get error message like: "wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801"

[~vel]

I managed to get ndiswrapper installed as well as the drivers but when i do ndiswrapper -l it only says net111v2 driver installed. it doesn't say hardware present at all and my dongle won't light up.

[~vel]

bump

[anarchron]

Hey guys, so from what I gather, Network Manager & WPA is broken for wg511 using ndiswrapper ?

Thanks

[JohnUK89]

Originally Posted by ~vel I managed to get ndiswrapper installed as well as the drivers but when i do ndiswrapper -l it only says net111v2 driver installed. it doesn't say hardware present at all and my dongle won't light up.

Probably because I forgot a module you needed to blacklist (d'oh!)

You need to add blacklist rtl8187 to the end of your module blacklist file (same method as above)

[nicolas314]

For what it's worth: I succeeded in making my WG111v2 USB dongle work on Ubuntu, both Edgy and Feisty after I upgraded. It took me easily half a day, so I will try to document my steps as clearly as I can.

First: the dongle. Netgear apparently releases several different pieces of hardware under the same name, so your WG111v2 is probably not the same as mine. This does not make things easier. Maybe I was just unlucky but the CD that was included in the box had the wrong drivers for my dongle, so the thing did not even work under Windoze. Several hours of Googling later, I was trying a bunch of drivers downloaded here and there from the Net and finally got the stuff working on Windoze. At least I knew it was no hardware fault.

Back to Ubuntu: Windoze interestingly taught me I had a RealTek 8187 in the box so I went and installed all relevant drivers I could find on Ubuntu. None worked, so I turned to ndiswrapper, but the version provided on Edgy did not cut it either. A search on this forum showed that there were bugs in the distributed version so I ended up downloading the ndiswrapper source code and installed from scratch. That got ndiswrapper working.

Then I tried all possible Windoze drivers I could put my hands on and finally got it working with an old Win98 driver. The dongle is now working perfectly (netrtuw.inf). After a dist-upgrade to feisty, the thing is still working. I am still using the off-the-shelf version for ndiswrapper instead of the packaged Ubuntu version though.

You may want to have a look at the ndiswrapper web site:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net

Check out their Wiki in the List of supported cards. If you search for WG111v2 you will find lots of people have tried various drivers. I found the one I am currently using in this list somewhere, though I do not remember where.

Hope it helps putting you into the right direction

[jharrop]

Just wanted to report the above.

After spending several hours trying to get the ndiswrapper approach working, inspired by some of the comments of JohnUK89 above, I just went with the rtl8187 driver. (I should have done this in the first place, given that ifconfig reported wlan0 before i tried any of the ndiswrapper shananigans).

I did have the WG111v2 dongle attached when i installed Ubuntu (x86_64).

So in the end all i had to do to make it work was create a wpa_supplicant.conf file, and put into /etc/network/interfaces:

pre-up wpa_supplicant -dd -Bw -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

What made me give up on the ndiswrapper approach was getting the following (despite having all the appropriate entries in the blacklist file):

ndiswrapper -l
net111v2 : driver installed
        device (0846:6A00) present (alternate driver: rtl8187)

with this in /var/log/messages:

loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: load_driver(359): couldn't load driver net111v2

Hope this helps someone.

cheers

Jason

[domz76]

Hi,

I also managed to get WG111v2 instaled in Fiesty using -
ndiswrapper (the version supplied with fiesty)
a win98 driver

i know the correct drivers are used as now under the network manager dropdown > connect to other wireless network > [enter network name SSIS], wireless security >...

the WPA options are now listed (whereas only the WEP options were listed using the wg111 without ndiswrapper and the 98 drivers]

My main problem is that i can NEVER connect to my WPA network, just seems to time out!

My question is, do we know for sure that the WLAN device supports WPA protocol???? Has anyone else made it work using WPA??

If not can someone rocommend a wLAN device for fiesty. This is my second try, the previous car which cam highly recommended (Orinnoco classic gold) does not work at all. I haven't ruled out the possibilty that my PCMCIA slot is faulty too, but ultimately a USB solution would be better...

Thanks
Dom