Kubuntu hates my wifi card.

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shadow_man

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Kubuntu doesnt seem to want to work with my netgear wg 311 t, it picks up my wg 311 but not the more decent wg 311 t. Ubuntu came preinstalled with madwifi and that picked both up no issues, does kubuntu not have madwifi support? Can i just dl madwifi and install - im a linux noob.

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J
 
Kubuntu should have the same packages as Ubuntu. If you can't find it in the package manager, drop to a console and do (as root) apt-get update (I don't know the guified paths in k/Ubuntu, sorry), then try again. If the madwifi package is not there, see if madwifi-source is. Install that, install module-assistant, and then again as root, try:

module-assistent a-i madwifi-source

This works on real Debian, should work the same on K/Ubuntu

Last way out, if the above fails: First you'll have to figure out which dev packages you have to install since K/Ubuntu comes with hardly any of the stuff you need to build stuff. You'll also need kernel-source or linux-source or something like that, for the version of your kernel, and linux-kbuild of the same version. Grab the daily snapshot from http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-ng/ unpack, make, make install, depmod -a and you should be good to go.
 
For some reason Madwifi isnt on all k/u/edu-buntu releases, in 6.06 there was Madwifi support for Atheros based chipsets which im assuming the netgear is. 6.10 didnt have it for some reason tho, surely you can just drop into a console and sudo apt-get madwifi or drop the sudo if you are root.
I could stand to correction as im more of a Fedora Core user than Debian based stuff.
 
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It's a tad hard to install packages when I need internet access to do so and my internet access comes through my wifi.

Sniff. I hate you at times linux.

I'm a linux n00b and this **** makes me want to drop it and hit my monitor in frustration, ubuntu was 100% with my netgear wg 311v3 and wg 311t yet kubuntu doesnt pick up the wg 311t which is my preferred card. No madwifi support in default install.

J
 
Same thing if you want to download drivers under Windows - you also need internet. Aren't the drivers on the disc? Are you installing from CD or DVD?
 
I installed already.

I installed off an iso that i burnt to cd that i downloaded off a ac.za mirror.

Would the madwifi drivers perhaps be on that disc?...

Thanks
J
 
No idea. I did my kubuntu install off a network install CD, installed the driver from source (old habits die hard...) and then noticed that there's a driver in the repos.

Why don't you try getting the source for the driver - put it on USB stick. It is a very clean driver, builds nice and clean as long as it has a compiler and the kernel hearders. Both should be on the CD.
 
linux-headers or kernel-headers - I'm not too sure about the ubuntu naming conventions any more - I've replaced mine with real Debian :-)
 
download the debian or ubuntu drivers off the product manufactures website?
 
Download this: http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-ng/madwifi-ng-r2626-20070731.tar.gz

Put it somewhere where you can reach it from linux. Then, in linux do:

tar xfz /where_ever/madwifi-ng-r2626-20070731.tar.gz
cd madwifi-ng-r2626-20070731
make

If this fails you're missing something from the build environment - either gcc or the kernel headers.

If it succeeds do:

sudo make install
sudo depmod -a

I can't remember the module names to load, if you do a find in that directory it should show you:

find . -name *.ko

then just load them each

modprobe module_name

(without the .ko and without the path)
 
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