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Wireless driver for netgear WN121T N series USB adapter

Asked by Safirr on 2008-01-26

I just bought a Netgear WN121T USB wireless adapter, it works perfectly in windows, but in Ubuntu it does not. On the CD there are no .inf files, so cannot use Ndiswrapper for installation of windows drivers
1. Is there a way to extract the windows driver from setup.exe file
2. download a driver for a similar device.
The chipset on the USB wireless is Marvell, here is the output of lsusb

Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0846:7100 NetGear, Inc.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

please help I am stuck with this card.

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fantomas28978
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2008-04-10
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2008-02-17
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : #1

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Safirr (safirr) said : #2

Has anybody had any success with ndiswrapper with this chipset?

Best fantomas28978 (numero51) said : #3

the first i want sorry my english and i hope that you understand me. i have a netgear rangemax with the chipset of marvell and this is ok in ubuntu 7.10

1.- down the driver for windows of the web of marvell (wn121t_2_0_setup.exe)

2.- you install this with wine, this is very easy (bottom right on the file, open with wine and you will install in ubuntu)

3.- in you folder home/your user/.wine/drive_c/windows/drivers/system32 you copy two file (WN121TXP.sys and WN121TXP_EE.sys)

4.- you paste this file in home/your user/.wine/drive_c/windows/inf/wn121t there will have other file WN121T.inf

5.- you have open one shell and go home/your user/.wine/drive_c/windows/inf/wn121t and write ndiswrapper -i WN121T.inf

6.- after in the same folder ndiswrapper -l and will appear on the screen (wn121t : driver installed
        device (0846:7100) present)

7.- ndiswrapper -m

8.- ndiswrapper -ma

9.- ndiswrapper -mi

10 modprobe ndiswrapper

11.- iwconfig and appear on the screen

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Belkin54g"
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:48 Mb/s Sensitivity=-200 dBm
          RTS thr=2346 B Fragment thr=2346 B
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:34/100 Signal level:-74 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:

you can browse the internet :)

fantomas

Safirr (safirr) said : #4

Thanks a million . . . will try it on the weekend . .. .