offline Ubuntu Precise needs nic driver software

What wifi chip does the device use?

The wifi chip is AR2413/2414 and I have the Windows drivers for it-- the
problem is I need the manual software installation procedures for
ndiswrapper to package the driver. Ubuntu Software Center only wants a
direct download from the internet-- which is not available until I have the
wifi driver installed.

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If you run:

sudo modprobe ath_pci

Does the wifi start working?

no-- I get "FATAL: Module ath_pci not found."

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Thanks- gnome-nettool is neat. It confirms that I have hardware installed
for wifi access but it needs a software driver.

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Re: How do I install software in an Ubuntu Precise system which is off-line until it gets the software?

Synaptic supports the installation of packages via another computer. If you have synaptic installed, you can mark required packages for installation and/or update, and then use the menu entry 'File - create download script'. This will create a script file with wget commands.
Transfer that script to another computer and execute it there to download all files to a (preferably empty) directory (e.g. on an USB stick). Mount that stick on your target computer and use the Synaptic menu entry 'File - Install downloaded packages'.

If you do not have the synaptic package installed, you have first to download the synaptic_*.deb package and install it. (command sudo dpkg -i synaptic....deb). If that complains about missing dependencies, you have to install these packages as well.

Thanks Manfred-- I do have synaptic installed and it seems to give me route to manually install ndiswrapper. However I discovered that after executing gnome-nettool yesterday, this morning my wireless capability was functional. The Atheros chipset had a driver/module, ath and ath5k, and they were functioning normally. Not sure what changed in my system but---

--problem solved! Thanks to all

--sam