Netgear N-300/ WNA3100 USB Adapter for Ubuntu 14.04

[tomash66]

I Have a dell optiplex 755 and it has XP im trying to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 32 bit. I have been using a distro and have not completely installed because I can not get the Wifi to work what so ever and this is a deal breaker even though I like everything else. I am using a netgear router/modem and a netgear usb adapter to pick up wifi. I am very new to linux all together and I am very slow with it currently but I have spent hours on this issue and nothing has helped, please help me. the dongle is a wireless N-300 and model number is WNA3100 and I dont not know where I would find the chipset info?

[praseodym]

Please check

lsusb

[tomash66]

I am new an I assume you mean press Ctrl+Alt+T and then enter lusb and press enter if so this is what I got:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0930:6545 Toshiba Corp. Kingston DataTraveler 102 Flash Drive / HEMA Flash Drive 2 GB / PNY Attache 4GB Stick
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0781:5571 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Fit
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0846:9020 NetGear, Inc. WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231]
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 03f0:5307 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

[praseodym]

Right, well done:

 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0846:9020 NetGear, Inc. WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231]

Thats the one. Broadcom-USB-sticks only work with ndiswrapper and the corresponding windows driver:

Install it via:

sudo apt-get install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-dkms dkms linux-headers-generic build-essential

The driver can be found here:
http://media.cdn.ubuntu-de.org/forum...4bit_v2.tar.gz
Unpack it and install the respective *.INF file via the "Windows-WLAN-tool"

[tomash66]

I know being such a newbie I am a pain but I assume the place your suggesting I search is the top left hand corner button and when I click it and search for WLAN nothing pops up for that do I need to download this tool in the software center?

[praseodym]

You can also install the driver via terminal. Unpack the driver to "Downloads" and run

For 32bit:

sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Downloads/Broadcom_bcm43xx_USB_32_64bit_v2/bcmn43xx32.inf

For 64bit:

sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Downloads/Broadcom_bcm43xx_USB_32_64bit_v2/bcmn43xx64.inf

Load the driver:

sudo modprobe -v ndiswrapper
sudo ndiswrapper -ma
dmesg | grep ndis
lsmod
iwconfig
ndiswrapper -l # thats a small L

[melissadick17]

OMG...Thank you so much, I have been working on this for two days and you totally solved it.

[Hexxus]

You can also install the driver via terminal. Unpack the driver to "Downloads" and run

For 32bit:

sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Downloads/Broadcom_bcm43xx_USB_32_64bit_v2/bcmn43xx32.inf

For 64bit:

sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Downloads/Broadcom_bcm43xx_USB_32_64bit_v2/bcmn43xx64.inf

Load the driver:

sudo modprobe -v ndiswrapper
sudo ndiswrapper -ma
dmesg | grep ndis
lsmod
iwconfig
ndiswrapper -l # thats a small L

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

I was struggling with this for over a day trying to get ndiswrapper to work for me.

[Aidas]

After running:
sudo ndiswrapper -i ~/Downloads/Broadcom_bcm43xx_USB_32_64bit_v2/bcmn43xx64.inf

I got:

couldn't open /home/mediab3/Downloads/Broadcom_bcm43xx_USB_32_64bit_v2/bcmn43xx64.inf: No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper line 162.

Any suggestions?

[the_nuts]

Install it via:

sudo apt-get install ndisgtk ndiswrapper-dkms dkms linux-headers-generic build-essential

How am I supposed to do it if I don't have the drivers to connect to the internet?

lol they told me "leave Windows and switch to Linux, it's simple and easy..."