Kallethen
May 30th 2006, 01:33 PM
Seems like wherever I look, people say that I need Ndiswrapper and that the acx drivers don't work.* I'll admit that Ndiswrapper has worked for me on other distros (Knoppix and Xandros to be specific).* On Kubutnu though, I've had no luck with Ndiswrapper (version on the repositories didn't work, tried to follow directions to build using the latest source but couldn't get that to work).* HOWEVER, I have found a little bit of precious info that got my card running with the acx driver.
I was looking up directions on the acx site (http://acx100.sourceforge.net/) to see about removing the ones native in Kubuntu and put in my own.* At the bottom of the page about firmware, I fould this:
"In Ubuntu dapper flight 4 there is an error, and have by default the 2.3.1.31 firmware, this version is not working at all, you must copy the firmware of the /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/acx/1.2.1.34 to the /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/acx/default and restart, after this, everything is working ok."
So that got me thinking.* I'm trying out Flight 7, has this been fixed?* So I opened up the firmware folder.* Among the folders there was one for 1.2.1.31 and another for 1.2.1.34 firmware.* I checked the readme file in the firmware folder and it told which are set as defaults.* For the one I wanted, it said the default was the older 1.2.1.31.* I then went into the default folder and sure enough, the link in there pointed the the older firmware.
I removed the link, made a new link pointing to the newer firmware, and rebooted the machine.* Voila, my Netgear WG311v2 adapter is working perfectly.
Thought I would post this to let others know there might be an easier way to get the card working than fooling around with Ndiswrapper.
I was looking up directions on the acx site (http://acx100.sourceforge.net/) to see about removing the ones native in Kubuntu and put in my own.* At the bottom of the page about firmware, I fould this:
"In Ubuntu dapper flight 4 there is an error, and have by default the 2.3.1.31 firmware, this version is not working at all, you must copy the firmware of the /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/acx/1.2.1.34 to the /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/acx/default and restart, after this, everything is working ok."
So that got me thinking.* I'm trying out Flight 7, has this been fixed?* So I opened up the firmware folder.* Among the folders there was one for 1.2.1.31 and another for 1.2.1.34 firmware.* I checked the readme file in the firmware folder and it told which are set as defaults.* For the one I wanted, it said the default was the older 1.2.1.31.* I then went into the default folder and sure enough, the link in there pointed the the older firmware.
I removed the link, made a new link pointing to the newer firmware, and rebooted the machine.* Voila, my Netgear WG311v2 adapter is working perfectly.
Thought I would post this to let others know there might be an easier way to get the card working than fooling around with Ndiswrapper.