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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:38:03 -0400 "dan moylan" <[hidden email]> wrote: > > 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.
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