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need drivers for either a Netgear WG311 v2 or Trendnet TEW 423 PI for ubuntu

Asked by gened216

I am trying to set up a wireless card with ubuntu. I have tried both a netgear wg311 v2 card and a trendnet TEW 423pi. neither of them work and I have tried finding appropriate drivers for them. Are there drivers for these cards for ubuntu and if so where can I find them? I am new to linux and if the drivers aren't an easy install and require me using terminal I need to know ho to do that as well. thank you.

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Josh (theformerprophet) said : 		#1

Sometimes these cards use different chipsets. When you had them installed, did you see the restricted drivers dialog in the notification area of the GNOME panel? Or perhaps you could go to System --> Administration --> Hardware drivers. It would pick up most drivers like that normally.

assuming that you can plug in an ethernet cable and download some files that way:
The Netgear would probably need the ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 packages (open synaptic and do a search for them) as well as the ndisgtk to work. then, go to netgear and download the drivers for windows. When it's all downloaded and installed, then go to system and windows wireless drivers. It will ask you where to find your files, and that's where the netgear drivers come in handy.

check this out for the trendnet:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5404424

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gened216 (gened216) said : 		#2

I am very unfamiliar with linux, what is ndiswrapper , where can I get it, and how would I use it? Also when I plug in the ethernet card it sees that there is a netwrok to connect to but it asks for the name, eap typ, identity, etc, where would I find that information. It it says that its a protected network but we don't have a wep key or anything on it.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

If you see the wireless network and it is a protected network you don't need ndiswrapper.

Is this your wireless network...? Can you switch off temporary your wireless router or device...? to check it.

If is your network i think you must give, type, the right key to access, you must have one.

Hope this helps

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