Wireless USB N300 Netgear install

[crazy_23_1999_04290]

FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

[crazy_23_1999_04290]

danny@danny-CM1745:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

[chili555]

FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

Not too surprising...Which Ubuntu version did you install?

lsb_release -d

If it is 12.10, you will probably need to compile ndiswrapper from scratch. Fun!

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Reference to chili: Post #132 above.

[crazy_23_1999_04290]

chilli

12.10 but if its to much trouble i can back track to 12.04?

[chili555]

Nothing is too much trouble for me; my wireless works!

Please get a temporary ethernet connection and do:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential

Go here and download the 1.58 tar.gz and drag and drop it to your desktop so we can find it. Right-click it and select 'Extract Here.' Now back to the terminal:

cd Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58
sudo su
make
make install
modprobe ndiswrapper
exit

Any improvement?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndis.../files/stable/

[crazy_23_1999_04290]

danny@danny-CM1745:~$ cd ndiswrapper-1.58
bash: cd: ndiswrapper-1.58: No such file or directory
danny@danny-CM1745:~$ sudo su
root@danny-CM1745:/home/danny# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
root@danny-CM1745:/home/danny# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
root@danny-CM1745:/home/danny# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.
root@danny-CM1745:/home/danny# exit

[chili555]

danny@danny-CM1745:~$ cd ndiswrapper-1.58
bash: cd: ndiswrapper-1.58: No such file or directory

Oops! That's my mistake; sorry. Please try:

cd Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58
sudo su
make
make install
modprobe ndiswrapper
exit

"Put it on the desktop so we can find it, old Chili."

[crazy_23_1999_04290]

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
linux-headers-generic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 302 not upgraded.
danny@danny-CM1745:~$ cd ndiswrapper-1.58
bash: cd: ndiswrapper-1.58: No such file or directory
danny@danny-CM1745:~$ cd Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58
danny@danny-CM1745:~/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58$ sudo su
root@danny-CM1745:/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58# make
make -C utils
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/utils'
gcc -g -Wall -I../driver -o loadndisdriver loadndisdriver.c
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/utils'
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver'
make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic M=/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic'
LD /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/built-in.o
MKEXPORT /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/crt_exports.h
MKEXPORT /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/hal_exports.h
MKEXPORT /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/ndis_exports.h
MKEXPORT /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/ntoskernel_exports.h
MKEXPORT /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/ntoskernel_io_exports.h
MKEXPORT /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/rtl_exports.h
MKEXPORT /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/usb_exports.h
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/crt.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/hal.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/iw_ndis.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/loader.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/ndis.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/ntoskernel.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/ntoskernel_io.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/pe_linker.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/pnp.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/proc.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/rtl.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/wrapmem.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/wrapndis.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/wrapper.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/usb.o
CC [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/divdi3.o
LD [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/ndiswrapper.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/ndiswrapper.mod.o
LD [M] /home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver/ndiswrapper.ko
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-3.5.0-17-generic'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver'
root@danny-CM1745:/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58# make install
make -C driver install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver'
mkdir -p -m 755 /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/misc
install -m 0644 ndiswrapper.ko /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/misc
/sbin/depmod -a 3.5.0-17-generic
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/driver'
make -C utils install
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/utils'
mkdir -p -m 755 /sbin
mkdir -p -m 755 /usr/sbin
install -m 755 loadndisdriver /sbin
install -m 755 ndiswrapper /usr/sbin
install -m 755 ndiswrapper-buginfo /usr/sbin
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58/utils'
mkdir -p -m 755 /usr/share/man/man8
install -m 644 ndiswrapper.8 /usr/share/man/man8
install -m 644 loadndisdriver.8 /usr/share/man/man8
root@danny-CM1745:/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58# modprobe ndiswrapper
root@danny-CM1745:/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58# exit

[chili555]

root@danny-CM1745:/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58# modprobe ndiswrapper
root@danny-CM1745:/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58# exit

So now ndiswrapper loaded cleanly. What does this tell us?

ndiswrapper -l
dmesg | grep ndis

The pipe symbol | is on the right side of my US keyboard on the same key with \.

[crazy_23_1999_04290]

root@danny-CM1745:/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58# ndiswrapper -l
root@danny-CM1745:/home/danny/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.58# dmesg | grep ndis
[ 8365.012055] ndiswrapper version 1.58 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[ 8365.022528] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper