Looking for a driver for Netgear USB 2.0 Wireless card WPN111

The make and model are fairly moot, Netgear do not make wireless chips (which we need to know) they buy chips in and make adapters.

We can see the chip if you run:

sudo lshw -C network

Can you give the output of that please, you may also want to connec using a wired connection and get FULL updates. This can also help.

 sudo lshw -C network:

*-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: MCP77 Ethernet
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: a
       bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: a2
       serial: 00:26:18:8d:93:34
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm msi ht bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.64 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.2 latency=0 link=yes maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:29 memory:fde7c000-fde7cfff ioport:c880(size=8) memory:fde7e400-fde7e4ff memory:fde7e000-fde7e00f
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:21:00:e4:9d:3e
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
       resources: irq:18 memory:fe9f0000-fe9fffff

It doesn't show the Netgear card. It shows up in DMESG as:

[ 1500.936066] usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[ 1501.070300] usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

lsusb:

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:0862 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1385:5f01 Netgear, Inc WPN111 (no firmware)
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 058f:6364 Alcor Micro Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:7411 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0781:5530 SanDisk Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 15b8:6002
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I thought there might be a ready-made driver for this one, but I guess not...

Here's a guide on how to compile the driver:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/ar928x-detected-by-ubuntu-but-no-access-points-are-visible-694984/

You will need to compile each time you upgrade the kernel.

Thank you very much. I went with the ndiswrapper and I got:

  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: wlan1
       serial: 00:22:3f:8e:7d:1e
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+netwpn11 driverversion=1.55+NETGEAR,04/18/2008,1.5.0.13 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

I haven't done a lot of testing, yet, but it looks good so far.

For anyone else's future reference, the step-by-step I used was:

1. I installed Wine through Synaptic Package Manager and configured it with the default values.

2. I installed the build-essential package through apt-get install.

3. I downloaded the latest drivers from Netgear.com for the WGN111 card, then I ran the setup program (WPN111_SW_v3.0_setup.exe). Note: The setup program will run fine with Wine, but the configuration file that it creates will not run with the default values in Wine. But you only need to use the .inf file that it also creates.

4. I ran the ndiswrapper through System/Administration/Windows Wireless Drivers using /home/current_user/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/NETGEAR/WPN111/Driver/netwpn11.inf as the Windows driver. Note: the .wine folder is hidden, so you need to View/Show Hidden Files, or type in the name (with the dot) to get there.

From there, you can set up the wireless connection through the regular Network Setup.