Netgear Wg311 V3

[janthomasebeling]

Hello

It is the first time I use Ubuntu or any other linux dirived program. I would want to know if there was any idiot proof way to install the netgear WG311 V3 on Ubuntu 9.10. I'm running ubuntu on a Packard Bell Imedia x2802.

Thanks for your time

[Trent T]

I managed to get the Marvell Netgear WG311V3 wireless card running with ndiswrapper-- Here's a link to the discussion of that installation, posted Oct 18 2009;

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=netgear+wg311

NOTE: You will be running a lot of commands in the terminal window;
When you see commands listed in a thread, you can copy them by highlighting the text to copy, then pressing Control C
--
Switch to the terminal window, and past the command in, using the key combination
Shift Insert

Then hit the Enter key, and your command will execute.

Best of luck activating your driver!

[tmattson]

Please help: Just downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 and installed a Netgear wg311 v3 wireless card. I have been successful (I think) in downloading the ndiswrapper. I have not been able to download the driver however, even though I have tried multiple sites. Here is an error reading I received when following a script in the terminal:

tlm@tlm:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0f:fe:4d:0d:6b
inet addr:192.168.1.35 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:feff:fe4d:d6b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3338 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3065 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2907875 (2.9 MB) TX bytes:443102 (443.1 KB)
Memory:f0500000-f0520000


lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:720 (720.0 B) TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)


tlm@tlm:~$ cd /tmp/
tlm@tlm:/tmp$ wget ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/wg311v3_1_0.zip
--2010-05-18 22:51:38-- ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/wg311v3_1_0.zip
=> `wg311v3_1_0.zip.1'
Resolving downloads.netgear.com... 207.211.82.170
Connecting to downloads.netgear.com|207.211.82.170|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD (1) /files ... done.
==> SIZE wg311v3_1_0.zip ... 6502117
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR wg311v3_1_0.zip ... done.
Length: 6502117 (6.2M) (unauthoritative)


100%[================================================== ===================>] 6,502,117 1.09K/s in 96m 53s


2010-05-19 00:28:33 (1.09 KB/s) - Data transfer aborted.
Retrying.


--2010-05-19 00:28:34-- ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/wg311v3_1_0.zip
(try: 2) => `wg311v3_1_0.zip.1'
==> CWD not required.
==> SIZE wg311v3_1_0.zip ...
Error in server response, closing control connection.
Retrying.


--2010-05-19 00:28:36-- ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/wg311v3_1_0.zip
(try: 3) => `wg311v3_1_0.zip.1'
Connecting to downloads.netgear.com|207.211.82.170|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD (1) /files ... done.
==> SIZE wg311v3_1_0.zip ... 6502117
==> PASV ... done. ==> REST 6502117 ... done.
==> RETR wg311v3_1_0.zip ... done.
Length: 6502117 (6.2M), 0 remaining (unauthoritative)


100%[++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++] 6,502,117 --.-K/s in 0s


2010-05-19 00:28:37 (0.00 B/s) - `wg311v3_1_0.zip.1' saved [6502117]


tlm@tlm:/tmp$ unzip wg311v3_1_0.zi
unzip: cannot find or open wg311v3_1_0.zi, wg311v3_1_0.zi.zip or wg311v3_1_0.zi.ZIP.
tlm@tlm:/tmp$ unzip wg311v3_1_0.zip
Archive: wg311v3_1_0.zip
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.
unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of wg311v3_1_0.zip or
wg311v3_1_0.zip.zip, and cannot find wg311v3_1_0.zip.ZIP, period.
tlm@tlm:/tmp$ cd "/tmp/WG311v3 V1.0/Driver/Windows XP/"
bash: cd: /tmp/WG311v3 V1.0/Driver/Windows XP/: No such file or directory



Every time I try to download the driver, it seems not to work. I have the following files in my downloads folder:

/home/tlm/Downloads/driverfetch_setup.exe
/home/tlm/Downloads/driverfetch_setup(2).exe
/home/tlm/Downloads/driverfetch_setup(3).exe
/home/tlm/Downloads/driverfetch_setup(4).exe
/home/tlm/Downloads/driverfetch_setup(5).exe
/home/tlm/Downloads/driverfetch_setup(6).exe
/home/tlm/Downloads/driverfetch_setup(7).exe
/home/tlm/Downloads/mrv8335x64.inf
/home/tlm/Downloads/MRV8335x64.sys
/home/tlm/Downloads/WinX64.zip

When I double click on the /home/tlm/Downloads/MRV8335x64.sys I get the following error message:

Archive: /home/tlm/Downloads/MRV8335x64.sys
[/home/tlm/Downloads/MRV8335x64.sys]
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.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/tlm/Downloads/MRV8335x64.sys or
/home/tlm/Downloads/MRV8335x64.sys.zip, and cannot find /home/tlm/Downloads/MRV8335x64.sys.ZIP, period.

This is the same error message I get when I click the .exe files.

I hope this makes more sense to someone out there than it makes to me. If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it. I am trying to follow the scripts that are provided, but none have seemed to work for me. Please help!

[joshedmonds]

Please try installing package linux-firmware-nonfree

System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager

A reboot may be required after installation. If this is successful NDISWrapper will not be necessary.

[tmattson]

Not sure what was different this time, but this page helped get me up and running.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/marvell...cicard-driver/