wg311v3 and annoying Kubuntu 10.04

[Maveric]

NOTE: I took out this topic in the Hardware Support area because I forgot there was a Network Support area, to which this topic would work much better for.______________________________________________ ___
I've been doing Google and Yahoo searches for this very issue and I've come a bit closer through this site but still have problems.

My wg311v3, as we all know, is not compatible with MadWifi so I installed the driver through ndiswrapper completely. It reads well and everything but there is no wlan0 when I run the iwconfig at all...

lo    no wireless extensions.

eth0   no wireless extensions.

So I run lshw, as mentioned in another post.

   *-pci:0
     description: PCI bridge
     product: MCP61 PCI bridge
     vendor: nVidia Corporation
     physical id: 4
     bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
     version: a1
     width: 32 bits
     clock: 66MHz
     capabilities: pci bus_master cap_list
     resources: ioport:c000(size=4096) memory:fdd00000-fddfffff memory:fde00000-fdefffff(prefetchable)
    *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless
       vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
       physical id: 9
       bus info: pci@0000:01:09.0
       version: 03
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=32
       resources: memory:fddf0000-fddfffff memory:fdde0000-fddeffff

Then I ran the ifconfig:

eth0   Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:c6:8a:63:10 
     inet addr:192.168.1.104 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
     inet6 addr: fe80::21f:c6ff:fe8a:6310/64 Scope:Link
     UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
     RX packets:37048 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:21627 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
     RX bytes:51713891 (51.7 MB) TX bytes:2063621 (2.0 MB)
     Interrupt:26 

lo    Link encap:Local Loopback 
     inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
     inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
     UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
     RX packets:264 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
     TX packets:264 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
     collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
     RX bytes:20144 (20.1 KB) TX bytes:20144 (20.1 KB)

So it reads it but only as "UNCLAIMED". This issue never came up before until now. The ifup only ignores any attempt at wlan0. Can anyone help me out?

[claydoh]

Re: wg311v3 and annoying Kubuntu 10.04

yes, your chipset has nothing to do with madwifi at all.
you have a marvel 88w8335 Libertas 802.11b/g chipset.

you also need describe what steps you have already done involving ndiswrapper

Some of this info seems to be a little dated, but might be relevant still especially if you are running 64bit:
http://sites.google.com/site/subtleg...or-linux-amd64
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...tgear_WG311_v3
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/mrv8k

[Maveric]

Re: wg311v3 and annoying Kubuntu 10.04

Thanks for replying.

I actually used the steps located at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...tgear_WG311_v3 to the letter. The driver installed normally but KNetworkManager and iwconfig still did not recognize the card. I figured it was a little dated but it worked up to Ubuntu 9.04, which that build's latest version has also given me problems.

EDIT: I'm also currently running on a 32-bit machine.

[Maveric]

Re: wg311v3 and annoying Kubuntu 10.04

I figured it out. The mrv8335 driver works a lot better than the wg311 win2k driver that was originally used. Thanks for the quick reply!