Wireless card problems. Netgear WG311v3.

contempt · #1 6th March 2009, 10:50 PM

Hi, I have a brand new quad core Dell that I bought less then 2 months ago. I had to buy a wireless care because there are multiple computers in the house and we all run off a single router. The wireless card I have in my Dell desktop is a Netgear WG311v3. Fedora doesn't pick it up at all and I'm pretty lost. This is my first run with Fedora. I used Ubuntu for years and never had the wireless card problem because I was always hard-wired. Any help or suggestions that anyone has would be great.

Thank you.

ozjd · #2 6th March 2009, 10:59 PM

Do a search for that model on here. You will probably find some help (always a good start!).

If that doesn't work you will need to know which chipset it uses so use the command lspci and look for any wireless entry.

ozjd · #3 6th March 2009, 11:04 PM

Did that search myself and i seems you need to use ndiswrapper. Have a look at http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.ph..._drivers_howto

scottro · #4 7th March 2009, 02:50 AM

I'm afraid I can't help, but I've changed the title of the thread. It's always a bad idea to just put "wireless problems." People get busy and just ignore it--however, if it's a model that they know about, they're far more likely to stop and look at the thread.

squidhm3 · #5 25th November 2009, 05:09 AM

I'm going to try Fedora 12 with this card (WG3112v3) but I know that ndiswrapper works without issues on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). I had to turn off encryption, as the other person also mentioned, so be advised of that. It NEVER dropped on me, in fact it acted better than it did in XP!!