Comments on: NetGear WG311v2 Wireless LAN and Ubuntu Dapper

By: Lilly Adams

Lilly Adams — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:39:25 +0000

Interesting facts! I used http://www.turn-keytechnologies.com/About-Us.aspx for my Wireless LAN Setup I was so happy with all of the service they provided. The staff is very supportive and my questions were always answered immediately.

By: Existence

Existence — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:29:48 +0000

Yea, it’s definitely not relevant to Ubuntu 8.
I’m on 8.10, and did everything in this article, and it STILL doesn’t work. :(
Guess I’ll have to try wicd, or other things.

By: adam

adam — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:47:50 +0000

This is quite an old article now. I don’t think it will be relevant to Ubuntu 8.

By: momojorge

momojorge — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:17:17 +0000

Hi,
Thanx for the information. I have Ubuntu-8 and a WG311 Netgear.
Can I try to do what you explain?
Sorry, I´m a new-ubuntu-user…

By: Susan Wells

Susan Wells — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:13:43 +0000

Anyone know how to do this procedure In Obuntu 6.06 with a Netgear WG511v2 wireless card? I have been working on this thing for days, trying various things, googling endlessly and nothing seems to work. The card lights up and shows as being connected, but it is only so through a loopback from the Ethernet cable. Any help would be greatly appreciated. You can write me directly sp_wells AT yahoo DOT com. Thanks so much.

By: adam

adam — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:48:44 +0000

OK, for all you people who have later versions of Ubuntu, I've written an update to this post called NetGear WG311v2 Wireless LAN and Ubuntu Feisty

By: adam

adam — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:33:57 +0000

My post was specific to Ubuntu version 6.06. It might not work on version 6.10.

Having said that, it sounds like your driver is looking for the wrong file. Try it without the firmware_ver option.

If that doesn’t work, try upgrading to the latest kernel. According to the Ubuntu website, the latest kernel for Edgy is 2.6.17-11. Type the following commands to upgrade:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.17-11-generic

By: Joachim

Joachim — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:01:36 +0000

Same setup.
Ubuntu 6.10
WG311 v2
Done the
-/etc/modprobe.d/options
And the rest
(added firmware_ver=1.2.0.30 in /etc/modules, was it bad?)

I get an error when trying
sudo ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.120 netmask 255.255.255.0
wlan0 does not exist.

Device manage shows the acx
Not the GUI Network interfaces though.

the dmesg | grep acx
gives
firmware image acx/1.2.0.30/tiacx111c16 was not provided
firmware image acx/1.2.0.30/tiacx111 was not provided
Check Your hotplug scripts
rest_dev FAILED

Any hints?

By: Argyris

Argyris — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:21:15 +0000

Thank you so much for your post!

By: adam

adam — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:16:57 +0000

Well, this procedure was for “Dapper Drake” which is Ubuntu 6.06. It may not neccessarily work with the newer version of Ubuntu. I have not tried this card under version 6.10 so the following comments are mainly guesswork.

If the device shows up in the device list then the kernel module is probably installed.

If it doesn’t have an interface, you could try manually assigning it one with the following command:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.99 netmask 255.255.255.0

You might want to use a different IP than the one I have given depending on your network circumstances.

Another potential problem I can think of is WEP security. Check the security settings on your wireless access point and see if the wireless card needs a password or any other kind of authentication before it will connect.

Finally, check dmesg for any errors which might give a clue. Typing the following might be helpful:

dmesg | grep acx

Good luck!

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:24:02 +0000

Hi,

I did all your steps including the if ACX driver not installed and I can’t get the thing to work( iget the same proc/modules message as Vishu).

My card shows in the device manager list (Ubuntu 6.10) but has no network interface. How do I solve this part of the problem (I assum it is a missing kernel module)

Thanks,

Mark.

By: adam

adam — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:03:24 +0000

Sounds like you don’t have the acx driver installed. Try updating your distro or if you have compiled your own kernel, make sure the driver is compiled as a module.

For Ubuntu or Debian, you can achieve this by typing the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo depmod -a

then reboot.

By: Vishu

Vishu — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:20:40 +0000

I added the line “options acx firmware_ver=1.2.0.30″ to the file /etc/modprobe.d/options. Then when trying to restart the driver it gave the following error ” Module acx does not exist in /proc/modules” . Please let me know how to proceed further.

Thanks
Vishu

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 03:41:22 +0000

I second the comment by Fred!! This worked perfectly for me. Netgear wg311v2 card, with the acx chipset. VERY cool to have native Ubuntu support for this instead of messing with a wrapper such as ndiswrapper.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:10:11 +0000

Thank you for this. I’ve been struggling for hours.