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Netcore Wireless USB driver

Asked by Samdidliambo

I have a NW330 model wireless USB adapter from Netcore that won't work under linux without a driver. In the help file, it says to use "windows wireless drivers" to install the appropriate .inf windows driver. The Windows installation cd that it came with has several .inf files on it for various versions of windows. However, when I use the "windows wireless drivers" tool to install them, the tool says "invalid driver", and the wireless still doesn't work. Do I need a different .inf file, or what?

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#1

Which version of Ubuntu are you using? The latest release 8.04 Hardy Heron has the best wireless card support.

In Applications menu, Accessories, choose Terminal and type

lsusb

post the results here to determine what the card is actually being detected as (the chipset is the important part of the support under linux)

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Samdidliambo (sam-beardsley) said : 		#2

I am using 8.04 Hardy Heron.

lsusb returns:
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1286:1fab Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a81:0101 Chesen Electronics Corp. Keyboard
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 413c:3012 Dell Computer Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

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Best Tony Mugan (tmugan) said : 		#3

Ok, here it is

http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=4243

And a google of "1286:1fab Ubuntu hardy" yielded this which may help...

http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=728870

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Samdidliambo (sam-beardsley) said : 		#4

Sorry, but I am very new to linux. How do I find/ get the driver to put into NDISWrapper? The link mentions a driver called "libertas.o" that it says is included in the Linux kernel (2.6.22). It says it might be a "Marvell Libertas 8388 chipset", if that helps.

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Samdidliambo (sam-beardsley) said : 		#5

Oh, wait, I think I can get the driver from the Tenda site listed in the link, and put it into NDISWrapper. Downloading it now.

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Samdidliambo (sam-beardsley) said : 		#6

I downloaded the driver, but when I put it through NDISwrapper, all the .inf files gave the same "Invalid driver!" message. By the way, the drivers I downloaded were the same ones on the disk that came with the device. Is there some other way to get the drivers recognized?

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Samdidliambo (sam-beardsley) said : 		#7

Well, I found my problem. I had copied the .inf files, but not the .sys files for the driver. Now seems to be working! Thanks for all the help!

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Samdidliambo (sam-beardsley) said : 		#8

Thanks Tony Mugan, that solved my question.