Comments on: How To Get The Netgear WN311T To Work

By: [mad]Berry

[mad]Berry — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:54:17 +0000

@Dan, Did you ever get a fix for this? If not I can look into it as I have some time now.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:01:02 +0000

When following your howto:

dan@ubuntu:~/Desktop/Driver$ sudo ndiswrapper -i NetMW14x.inf
installing netmw14x …
couldn’t find models section “Linksys” -
installation may be incomplete

If I comment out the reference to this it just completely fails to install (states its an invalid driver) any suggestions?

Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:38:19 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l
netmw14x : invalid driver!

By: [mad]Berry

[mad]Berry — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:35:00 +0000

@Chris, Like the article says download the tar file using:

wget -c http://madberry.org/wp-content/drivers/wn311t.tar.gz

or right click and save as this link:

http://madberry.org/wp-content/drivers/wn311t.tar.gz

I’m not home at the moment when I get home later I will check the file to make sure it has all files needed.

[mad]Berry

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:50:58 +0000

Shot in the dark here as Im not sure if you are still reading these posts …

I tried to follow your steps but could not get this file wiht your download – NetMW14x.inf

How can I get that file ???

By: legoni

legoni — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:06:35 +0000

yes I need some help….
I followed your instructions but had some issues. First, When I put the line “sudo modprobe ndiswrapper” in the terminal it froze and I had to shut the terminal. Second, after I rebooted my computer the wireless service didnt load and wouldnt start.
Any ideas?

By: [mad]Berry

[mad]Berry — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:47:54 +0000

@Paul Heckel, Yes the 64bit Netgear drivers from either the CD or the Netgear website.

By: Paul Heckel

Paul Heckel — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:02:19 +0000

@[mad]Berry,
Hi there. I am a bit confused by this question. To which specific 64 bit drivers are you referring? The Vista 64 bit drivers contained in the Netgear bundle? Or are there other 64 bit drivers in play here?

I’ve been having a heck of a time coercing my AMD64 Jaunty instance to use this driver. Any further guidance would be appreciated.

By: shadgkiss

shadgkiss — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:19:47 +0000

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shadgkiss@ubuntu-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu-laptop 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
shadgkiss@ubuntu-laptop:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l

shadgkiss@ubuntu-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

irda0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Sensitivity=-200 dBm
RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

pan0 no wireless extensions.

shadgkiss@ubuntu-laptop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
netmw14x : driver installed
device (11AB:2A02) present

By: shadgkiss

shadgkiss — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:18:46 +0000

I am trying to get a 511t woring in ubuntu 9.04 but can not attached is my pastebin.

thanks for your help

By: [mad]Berry

[mad]Berry — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:28:59 +0000

@John D. Tiedeman, I don't like using ndiswrapper much myself. But in this case there is no way around it. I haven't tried the WN311T on Kubuntu 9.04 yet I will be able to tell you more after my new motherboard comes in I won't be updating the system that has the WN311T until after the hardware upgrade of Magnus.

By: John D. Tiedeman

John D. Tiedeman — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:52:37 +0000

It hadn’t occurred to me to look for 64-bit drivers, because in the 3 years since I went 64-bit I have neither seen nor needed them. I used ndiswrapper (always my last resort) to install the two drivers I found on the Marvell site. Do you know of any for the WN311T. I have even read that they aren’t needed with *ubuntu 9.01 because the module is in the kernel but I haven’t been able to find it.

By: [mad]Berry

[mad]Berry — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:31:56 +0000

@John D. Tiedeman, Did you use the 64bit drivers?

By: John D. Tiedeman

John D. Tiedeman — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:01:30 +0000

I have been unable to get any results at all. I included all the info you specified. I also included part of the lshw listing, which I hope points the way to what is really wrong.

Uname -a:
Linux Athanasius 2.6.28-7-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Mon Feb 9 15:42:34 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU /Linux

issue:
Ubuntu 9.04 \n \l

iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
Pan0 no wireless extensions.

ndiswrapper:
neta3ab : driver installed
netrt61g : driver installed

pertinent section of lshw -c network:

*-network:0 UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: 88W8361 [TopDog] 802.11n Wireless
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 5
bus info: pci@0000:00:05.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=32

By: nandi

nandi — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:10:35 +0000

Does this work with linux Redhat 64 bit? Do you have the correct drivers for this?
PS I thought I’d posted a request yesterday but it seems do have dissapeared. Thanks

By: nandi

nandi — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:43:25 +0000

hi can you help me resolve this . Been struling for over two weeks now. Thanks

# lspci -v
03:07.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 2a02 (rev 03)
Subsystem: Netgear Device 7e00
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
Memory at fdde0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Memory at fddd0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

# ndiswrapper -l
yk51x64 : driver installed

# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

# cat /etc/issue

Welcome to openSUSE 11.0 (X86-64) – Kernel \r (\l).

uname -a
Linux linux-byfa 2.6.25.5-1.1-default #1 SMP 2008-06-07 01:55:22 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

By: [mad]Berry

[mad]Berry — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:05:36 +0000

Originally Posted By Robert
Thanks for the info, this worked for me on Ubuntu 8.10 with a Netgear WN511T, just had to find the drivers as mentioned.I do have one issue in that my pcmcia card wireless services on this interface do not start after a reboot. However if I unplug and reseat the pc card it will start.Any Ideas?Robert

Yes this is because the Ubuntu starts the network before it starts pcmcia. To fix the problem add /etc/init.d/pcmcia start in /etc/init.d/networking below the #!/bin/sh -e. This should solve the problem.[mad]Berry

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 02:13:04 +0000

Thanks for the info, this worked for me on Ubuntu 8.10 with a Netgear WN511T, just had to find the drivers as mentioned.

I do have one issue in that my pcmcia card wireless services on this interface do not start after a reboot. However if I unplug and reseat the pc card it will start.

Any Ideas?

Robert

By: Plexus

Plexus — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:50:32 +0000

sorry for bugging you with this question – after rethinking I came to the clue that this is not the solution as the VM will access the hardware itself without making use of installed drivers on the guest system…

regarding WN311T & BSD I found a blog where this situation is documentated:
http://vivin.net/archives/journal/7/10/2007/Getting_the_Netgear_WN311T_to_work_on_PCBSDFreeBSD/

if you should aspire to play around with a bsd-VM and this tut please let me know as I am half a noob to linux yet and will need any further documentation available for this.

plex

By: Plexus

Plexus — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:21:23 +0000

hi and thanks so far for your detailed writeup.

would this w-lancard be avaiable for pfSense in a VM running BSD on a Intrepid machine?

thx´n´greetz
plex

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:31:03 +0000

The procedures sorta of work for me. Im using WICD and at times it will recognize my wireless, other times it wont and when it does recognize the 311T, it wont connect using it. Heres my parameters:

Linux MultiMedia 2.6.24-23-server #1 SMP Thu Nov 27 19:19:15 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s Sensitivity=-200 dBm
RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Ubuntu 8.04.1 \n \l

netmw14x : driver installed
device (11AB:2A02) present