Comprehensive ndiswrapper troubleshooting guide

[mastergunner]

I have a HP ze4400 and I have a Zyxel M-102 and Netgear WG511 PCMCIA wireless cards.I cannot get either one to work and I have tried ndiswrapper and that doesn't work. Can anyone help me out. I appreciate it.

[mastergunner]

I have a old HP ze4400 laptop and 2 old PCMCIA wireless cards Netgear wG511 and Zyxel M-102. i cannot get either one to work. I have ndiswrapper installed but still nothing works. Can someone please help me. Thanks.

[mörgæs]

With your experience in Ubuntuforums you should know that double-posting is not welcome.
Merged.

[pytheas22]

mastergunner: sorry, I don't check the forums too often anymore. I am willing to help you if you post more information. In particular, it would be good to see the output of:

uname -a
lspci -nn
lsusb
lshw -C Network

If I don't respond in a reasonable amount of time feel free to send a message, which will go to email to remind me.

[gnueliafnak]

Hi, I can't believe I overlooked this sticky. My current thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2120598

I currently am having issues installing my Netgear WG111T USB Wireless Adapter in Ubuntu 12.10.

At first I had the FATAL: No module found error with Ndiswrapper, then found out there was a bug in that version so I updated to 1.58 the stable suggested one and installed the driver but still doesn't detect it. It still shows up as in the Network Manager as "no" for hardware.

This is what I get if I run lsusb in terminal:
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1385:4251 Netgear, Inc WG111T (no firmware)

Can someone please offer any advice? I feel like I'm just missing some other files maybe.

[pytheas22]

gnueliafnak: what is the output of:

uname -a
ndiswrapper -l

Also, I gather from some quick googling that there is also a native Linux driver for your card called ar5523. If ndiswrapper won't work you should explore that route. The Debian wiki has instructions for downloading and compling the source, and I am happy to help you with that process if you need some assistance.

[gnueliafnak]

Which method do you recommend? Continue to get it to work with ndiswrapper or the native linux driver route?

I read the instructions for dling and compiling the source, it seems straight forward, but it mentioned a module assistant. Do I have to dl that also or is that included in 12.10 Ubuntu.

If it isn't too much trouble, can you just list out the steps I should take if I were to install the native linux driver? Thanks.

[pytheas22]

A native driver is usually preferable, if you can get it installed. The instructions on the Debian wiki that I linked to should work on Ubuntu as well, with a few modifications: skip steps 1 and 2, and for three, run this command instead of what is listed:

install build-essential debhelper fakeroot module-assistant quilt subversion wget && exit

After that, all of the other commands through step 9 should work. If you get errors, please all of your output here.

If you follow these steps you will install module-assistant and the other packages you need to compile the driver.

[remas2010]

Thanks for the suggestions again, and especially for pointing out the module-alias stuff. I had never heard of that causing problems, so it's definitely good to know.

[remas2010]

اشهارمنتديات]the installer you linked to (1.5.9) isn't the latest one
التسويق الكترونيand when I tried to open the التسويق.deb it told me network-manager is a conflict.
منتديات اشهار
The one needed is wicd_1.6.2.2-2_all.deb:شركة تسويق

booting ubuntu now to see if it works *
التسوق الالكتروني *

editing as I go along:
1) requires dependency: python-urwid
اشهار المواقع
2) screw this, not spending another 16 hoursشركة للتسويق straight trying to find this problem. im going to ask for help in my own thread.

thanks about that