My laptops wireless gave up its ghost just a month after the warranty is over. HP offered to rectify it with minimum estimate of Rs5000 which could possibly go up. So from Nehru Place I purchased a Netgear WG111V3 USB wireless dongle which obviously was certified to work with various M$ flavors. Vendor told me if you open the box its yours without refund unless I was able to prove that the stuff did not work under claimed compatible O/S.
I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and a quick search showed possiibilities of getting this tweaked in to working from 5.04 onwards. So I brought one for Rs1100 including bill. On plugging it in the device showed up in lsusb and in syslog. So far so good. Did a wine install of the give software and from the driver directory somewhere under /home/user/.wine.... found the three driver files needed wg111v3.cat WG111v3.inf wg111v3.sys sudo apt-get install ndisgtk Earlier you had to do a lot of command line work to get this going but now this instals the wrapper package and dependencies. Fired up from System>Administration>Ndisgtk menu and pointed to the file WG111v3.inf and wireless was up and running. Only I have not been able to get the WEP key connectivity but WAP works and of course open networks work. -- Regards, Sudev Barar Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there. PS: I know most of people do not follow email niceties (mostly they are not aware) but if you follow bottom post/in-line post style of email conversations it becomes a whole lot easier to carry on meaningful dialogue and you can snip out what is not meaningful too. Most people just hit reply button and top post leaving prior message appended uselessly at bottom. See if you can adopt this style and persuade others. In case you are already doing this ..... great, spread the message. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
