Yet another Ibex Wifi query

aidan_walsh

I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo laptop that I've just been fighting getting Ubuntu 8.10 onto, and have gotten to the point that everything bar the Wifi is up and running.

The laptop doesn't have native Wifi, so I have been using a Netgear WG511 v2 (Made in China), which I understand had been historically difficult to get up and running. The laptop seems to be able to detect the card ok, but I am not sure how to go about getting it mounted and working.

lshw -C network

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
vendor: National Semiconductor Corporation
physical id: c
bus info: pci@0000:01:0c.0
logical name: eth0
version: 00
serial: 00:03:0d:13:b0:54
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii fibre 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=natsemi driverversion=2.1 duplex=full ip=192.168.2.2 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=52 mingnt=11 module=natsemi multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: 88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm cap_list
configuration: latency=0

iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sudo dhclient wlan0

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device

An Fear Aniar

Google seems to indicate that you need to use ndiswrapper:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/marvell-88w8335-chipset-netgear-wg311-pcicard-driver/

You could also try wicd, see if that works.

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/



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aidan_walsh

Had been looking to avoid using ndiswrapper if I could, not had a great experience with it previously.

I'll give wicd a try, thanks.

pickarooney

FWIW I have exactly the same wireless card (USB, not PCMCIA) and Intrepid is the first ever Ubuntu release with which it has worked out of the box.

If you need any command outputs or config files, let me know.

aidan_walsh

I have the PCMCIA version, and unfortunately wicd didn't work.

Any commands or configs would be much appreciated

PogMoThoin

What You need is the windows driver (you need the .inf), ndiswrapper and ndisgtk (gui for ndiswrapper) which will make things much easier.

aidan_walsh

I had it working with ndiswrapper before, but was looking to avoid using it this time around if possible.