New Linux user - wanting to get wireless adaptor working

[jdarby1983]

ok, so this week ive taken the step and got ubuntu 13.10 installed alongside windows 8.1. Love it so far but i'm making my first task to get my usb wireless adaptor working before moving on to anything else.

My main issue installing the ndiswrapper and those drivers that i have! Basic shell commands are known such as ls /cd / -i /

The Netgear adaptor is there:
jdarby1983@jdarby1983-Alienware-X51:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0846:9020 NetGear, Inc. WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231]
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0461:4d65 Primax Electronics, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04ca:0027 Lite-On Technology Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
jdarby1983@jdarby1983-Alienware-X51:~$

I've got the drivers:

jdarby1983@jdarby1983-Alienware-X51:~/wna3100-drivers$ ls
bcmh43xx64.cat bcmh43xx.cat bcmwlhigh5.inf bcmwlhigh5.sys
jdarby1983@jdarby1983-Alienware-X51:~/wna3100-drivers$


I also have the ndiswrapper application downloaded
jdarby1983@jdarby1983-Alienware-X51:~/ndiswrapper-1.58$ ls
AUTHORS driver loadndisdriver.8 ndiswrapper.8 README
ChangeLog INSTALL Makefile ndiswrapper.spec utils
jdarby1983@jdarby1983-Alienware-X51:~/ndiswrapper-1.58$


I have already tried to follow the instructions on making an install that came with ndiswrapper, however I must be doing something wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Hakunka-Matata]

Hi jdarby1983, Welcome to the forum. Check this post, it may help you out.

regards,