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jerry writes: > I didn't have time yesterday to followup on this. You do > not use Wine to run a driver. yes, i know. the wine directory is just where the download put the stuff. i thought that i needed to run WG511v2.exe to get the .sys and .inf files but that didn't work. > Many times a Windows driver is distributed in a self > extracting archive. To run the driver under NDISWRAPPER, you > must first extract the Windows .sys and .inf files. Not sure > what chip that Netgear uses, but in the case of the Broadcom > chips, there is a native Linux driver, but that requires > that you install the firmware that must be extracted from > the .sys file. If I have the time today I'll take a look > online and see if I can help. in the ubuntu forums i found reference to a marvel driver supposedly suitable to my card, and downloaded these files: mrv8335.cat mrv8335.inf MRV8335NT.sys MRV8335XP.sys and successfully installed them in ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper -l gives: mrv8335 : driver installed device (11AB:1FAA) present which looks good. dmesg shows the following: [ 20.592000] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 9$ [ 20.864000] wlan0: ethernet device 00:14:6c:75:56:ca using NDIS driver: mrv83 [ 20.864000] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2 [ 20.864000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper$ [ 20.904000] ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan0' to 'wlan1'$ [ 29.520000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready i don't know how to get rid of this last message. route shows: Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 wlan1 default netgear 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlan1 and ifconfig: wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:6C:75:56:CA inet addr:192.168.0.22 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:9 Memory:38010000-38020000 still, it doesn't work. ?? dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-232-2360 (tel) 810-454-1823 (fax) [hidden email] www.moylan.info [death to html bloat!] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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