Because I could use a wired internet connection temporarily, I was able to install version 1.9 with ubuntu's Synaptic Package Manager.
#Netgear wireless card wg311 driver drivers#
This application wraps windows wireless adapter drivers into a Linux module. Since Netgear claimed on their site that WPA was supported by their latest driver software (version 2.0.0.7), perhaps there was a way to use their driver. I decided that perhaps the driver module provided with the ubuntu distribution did not support WPA. Still I could not associate the card with the router. This ubuntu geek tutorial was instructive. I reckoned that perhaps NetworkManager did not set up the WPA password properly and delved into the use of WPA_supplicant for setting up a connection without using NetworkManager. However, the connection was never successfully established. The spinning wheel in place of the network icon on the menu bar indicated repeated attempts to associate with the router.
I could configure the default wlan0 connection with a WPA key in NetworkManager (0.7.0.100). In my situation, this meant that the card was immediately recognized after boot and the driver was loaded.
This project develops Linux drivers for the acx100/111 chipset without help from manufacturers. Ubuntu 9.04 supports WG311v2 cards on the AMD 64-bit architecture, using the drivers that the Acx100 sourceforge project provides. They mean it! By contrast, WG311v3 uses a Ralink chipset, for which 64-bit drivers are available. On the label of WG311v2, you will find 32-bit PCI. The careful examiner will already notice this bitter truth on the adapter label shown on the Netgear support site. This simple truth applies to ALL wireless adapters based on the TEXAS INSTRUMENTS ACX100/111 aka TNETW1450 chipsets, regardless of brand, and also applies to ALL Windows 64-bit operating system users. I spent a whole week on the idea of adding WPA capability with the result that VERSION 2 of the adapter JUST WILL NOT work with this option on machines with 64-bit processors, because nobody compiled drivers for the 64-bit architecture. Note the card works out of the box with the driver provided by ubuntu on unprotected networks as well as on networks with WEP password protection, but not with WPA password protection. I am running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) on a machine with two AMD Opteron 64-bit CPUs. I was trying to make a Netgear WG311v2 wireless PCI adapter connect to our Apple MB763LL/A AirPort Extreme Dual-band Base Station router using WPA password protection.
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