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Offline deathromantik

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Netgear wg311v3. How do I get it to work?
« on: September 11, 2010, 01:46:00 AM »
I am trying to set up a PCLOS system for somebody but the wifi card is a Netgear wg311v3 and wifi and wired connections do not work.
How do I get this sorted out, I tried copying over the windows drivers but I have no idea what to do.
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Re: Netgear wg311v3. How do I get it to work?
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2010, 04:42:37 AM »
Isn't that a "Marvell" chipset?
Run in a konsole "lspci" and see what it returns ...

Once confirmed what chipset it has, you could use ndiswrapper to get it going with the Windows driver as I understood you got the Windows installer.

Look for the .info file and install it with ndiswrapper or by using the "add a driver" option during set up a new network connection.
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Re: Netgear wg311v3. How do I get it to work?
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2010, 05:41:10 AM »
Yes it has the Marvel chipset, Pheonix I think. I will try the command latter when I have access to the computer, the user is running windoze right now.
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Re: Netgear wg311v3. How do I get it to work?
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2010, 06:21:08 AM »
Quote from: deathromantik on September 11, 2010, 05:41:10 AM
Yes it has the Marvel chipset, Pheonix I think. I will try the command latter when I have access to the computer, the user is running windoze right now.

Yes, once you located the .inf file (i.e. XYZ.inf where XYZ is the "real name"), open a konsole as root there and run < ndiswrapper -i XYS.inf >  (without the < > of course).
That should do it.
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