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Need help with Installing Wireless USB adapter

Post by hoangnguyen1 »

Hello Mint community. Happen to try the 17.2Mint Cinnamon out but however I couldn't get the

WNDA3100v2 NETGEAR adapter to work.

I happen to have the CD-Driver for it so I installed WINE to help with the set-up process but it seem like the .exe wouldn't load either :( .

Here is what I got after command :

sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py

output is:
g@Key ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
autorun : invalid driver!
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr bc:5f:f4:46:15:d6
inet addr:10.0.0.8 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 2601:1c0:c001:4f90::4041/128 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: 2601:1c0:c001:4f90:be5f:f4ff:fe46:15d6/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::be5f:f4ff:fe46:15d6/64 Scope:Link
inet6 addr: 2601:1c0:c001:4f90:1cf2:ea83:3a8c:6637/64 Scope:Global
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:11801 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9466 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:10591198 (10.5 MB) TX bytes:1671273 (1.6 MB)
Interrupt:19

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:1409 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1409 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:141291 (141.2 KB) TX bytes:141291 (141.2 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 75.75.75.75
Address: 75.75.75.75#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.33.105
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.33.96
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.33.101
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.33.102
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.33.110
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.33.100
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.33.99
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.33.97
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.33.98
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.33.103
Name: google.com
Address: 173.194.33.104


Any help is appreciated l;p :wink:
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Re: Need help with Installing Wireless USB adapter

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What does this command give:

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lsusb
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Re: Need help with Installing Wireless USB adapter

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Hello,

Thank you for the reply, here is what i got

hoang@Key ~ $ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1532:011a Razer USA, Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 058f:6364 Alcor Micro Corp. AU6477 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c077 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0846:9011 NetGear, Inc. WNDA3100v2 802.11abgn [Broadcom BCM4323]
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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Re: Need help with Installing Wireless USB adapter

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Pjotr wrote:What does this command give:

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lsusb
I also had install WINE and ndiswrapper to but unsure to check.
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Forget Wine / ndiswrapper, it's an emergency measure at best..... and never a very good one.

It's this chipset: Broadcom BCM4323.

So try this:
- establish internet connection by other means, for example by wire (ethernet cable);
- from the Menu, launch Driver Manager. Does it offer you a driver? If so, install it and reboot.
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Re: Need help with Installing Wireless USB adapter

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I have it hook up with an ethernet cable for internet. And for driver manager, nothing seem pop up.
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Pjotr wrote:Forget Wine, it's an emergency measure at best..... and never a very good one.


- from the Menu, launch Driver Manager. Does it offer you a driver? If so, install it and reboot.
It seem like the only option it have is driver for my video card. :?
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Hmmm..... I've done some research, and it appears that you have a problematic chipset there. It seems that only with ndiswrapper people have succeeded in getting it to work. Ndiswrapper is an emergency measure. Not good.

I advise to buy a cheap USB dongle that works out of the box in Linux Mint 17.x, like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/TP-LINK-TL-WN725N ... B008IFXQFU
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Pjotr wrote:Hmmm..... I've done some research, and it appears that you have a problematic chipset there. It seems that only with ndiswrapper people have succeeded in getting it to work. Ndiswrapper is an emergency measure. Not good.
Thank you for the suggestion, I tried the ndiswrapper route but this what it came up with

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hoang@Key ~ $ ndiswrapper -l
autorun : invalid driver!
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Re: Need help with Installing Wireless USB adapter

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If you absolutely want to use this USB dongle, read http://askubuntu.com/questions/568056/u ... ar-adapter

I wouldn't expect great results and the wifi gurus at ubuntuforums.org seem to have given up on trying to troubleshoot any issues with wifi that needs ndiswrapper
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