If you’re running Natty or later, DO NOT BLACKLIST DRIVERS in etc/modprobe.d/blacklist I’m assuming the driver conflicts that prompted the blacklisting have been fixed in post-Edgy Ubuntu versions. blacklisting of conflicting drivers was NOT necessary in 11.04 the blacklist additionally caused USB wifi cards and USB flash drives to not be recognized. To find it, do a search for ndiswrapper-common at, and pick your release:ģ. ndiswrapper-common is a dependency of ndisutil. Use an alternate OS (knoppix live CD, puppy linux, or a friend’s computer) to download the ndiswrapper-utils and ndiswrapper-common packages. To address earlier complaints above, NO, using apt is NOT possible if you’ve got no wired networking and no wireless.

I guess this is why my “WG111v2-unless-it’s-a-V1-on-alternate-Tuesdays wifi NIC was only five bucks on Newegg!įor the historical record, here’s my experience with these instructions in 11.04 Natty:ġ. I’ve never had to use NDIS drivers in modern versions of Ubuntu before, and I don’t expect to do so again. In Ubuntu, lsusb sees the bloody thing as a WG111v1 - WTF with extra sauce, Netgear? This is not Ubuntu’s fault, this is a squirrelly product, plain and simple.

The WG111v2 I bought as a refurb, for example, never worked with Netgear’s officially-released v2 drivers in Windows, and needed a special alternate V2 driver that was extremely hard to find.

This is not “way over the top” for one very good reason the Netgear wg111 series USB NIC was plagued with driver problems from day one, including major issues with different manufacturing runs needing different, unofficial, or “beta” drivers in Windows XP. You can find this information in ubuntu forums Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4Ĭopyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.ĭHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 portĪccepting packet with data after udp payload. )Ĭonfigure wlan0 (or appropriate interface) via iwconfig Ifconfig, iwconfig, ifup, ifdown, dhclient, and dmesg. (Note: to diagnose problems effectively, you should know something about the following: Sudo iwconfigOutput should show wlan0 (or wlan0, or eth0, etc) as a wireless extension.įire up your network by issuing the following commands. Net111v2 driver installed, hardware present Sudo gedit /etc/modulesCopy and paste the following to the bottom of the file. Sudo ndiswrapper -i /home//Desktop/NetgearV2/Driver/WIN98/net111v2.inf For ease of use, rename the extracted file 'NetgearV2'.Ĭonfigure ndiswrapper. Right-click on the file, and extract the compressed folder to your desktop. Download wg111v2_1_3_0.zip to your desktop. Sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.8Ĭopy and paste the following to the bottom of the file.

Install ndiswrapper, specifically ndiswrapper-utils-1.8

Netgear wg111v2 driver download