[DONE] Netgear wna3100

[ilirb]

HI,
I have a Netgear wna3100 and I was wondering if I can use with XBian 1.0 Alpha 4?
If yes how can i install it?
If NO what do you recommend?
Thank you in advance

[CurlyMo]

Did you already try it?

[ilirb]

No . i wouldn't know where to start even if i wanted that why i asked if I can. I just have it sitting around.
Before i buy something more simple to install or something more of a plug and play . (if there's any)
I just bought this thing because i like to learn these things.

[CurlyMo]

By trying i meant, did you already plug it in and run xbian-config to configure it?

[ilirb]

No I didn't. The only reason I would like to have WLAN is my wife because to many cables running.
I like it wired is much smoother when i watch icefilms 720p movies.

[CurlyMo]

Then do it...

[ilirb]

all i keep getting "no wireless extensions"

[CurlyMo]

When?

[ilirb]

I don't know I am just googeling things and keep trying lots of stuff. At least i fixed ustvnow addon
I have respect for you CurlyMo thank you for putting up with me

[CurlyMo]

I believe we aren't communicating very effectively. Maybe one of the other guys can help...

[eno423]

i have a similar dongle (wnda3100) and my pi doesnt detect it when running config over SSH

i also followed your directions from another thread & pulled down the lastest config...but now i dont even have a WLAN option, only the lan which it shows directly to the settings


any ideas as to why the pi isnt detecting this adapter


further more i just found this on a openelec site

Quote:etgear WNDA-3200 Atheros ath9k Y This is a Virgin branded version of the WNDA-3100. The card is a dual-mode device; it initially mounts as a CDROM that is "ejected" via a udev rule to switch the card into WLAN mode. Aside from this oddity the card performs well and is probably the cheapest dual-band 2.4/5GHz card you can buy - there is a plentiful supply for under £10 on eBay UK as Virgin (the UK ISP) bundle them free with the Netgear router they provide to ADSL subscribers. The WNDA-3100 sister product uses at least two different chipsets but all the WNDA-3200's I have encountered use the same Atheros chipset. 2012-03-15

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ok a bit more digging. i have the V2 broadcom version & even my win 7 & 8 machine wouldnt install a driver for it. i had to go to Netgears site (http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/WNDA3100V2/WNDA3100v2_V2.1.0.3.zip) and download it.

so now i have it working on my windows box. How do i move the drivers to my xbain distro & then install them?

if i suply them can you goes roll them up for me?

it looks like alot of linux distros have issues with this V2 model & the drivers need to be extraced onto windows & then moved & installed over...however i can only do that via a GUI & wouldnt know where to begin from a Bash

[Koenkk]

@eno423 you need a *.ko file, do you have that?

[eno423]

no but cant we use the ndiswrapper?

this really bums me out that there is not way for this driver to be incorporated.

[Koenkk]

If you provide us de driver we can include it

[eno423]

no native linux driver only a windows. & apparently the ndiswrapper wont work on arm....

time to find a new wlan card