(06-06-2014, 08:04 AM)N4RPS link Wrote: Hello!
I'm glad you finally got it to work for you. If you could describe what you had to do in detail, it could perhaps help the next person who comes along with a similar issue...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
Excellent Rob, you are so right, I'm at work now, but when I get home this afternoon I will come back in to this post and give that information. I'll be back later today.
Ok guys I'm back, so here it is in a nutshell, I'll try to be concise here. It was very quick and only took a couple of minutes, so here are the steps I took:
1. Downloaded the drivers from the link provided by Departure in his post above (Thanks again Departure). Here is the link again just in case: http://av3ngr.wikispaces.com/file/view/0846_9011.tar.gz I left them in my downloads folder by default, I was too much in a rush to create one in my home folder. Impatient I guess.
2. Open the terminal and type the following command, then hit enter to install the ndiswrapper package: sudo apt-get install ndisgtk This will install everything needed for ndiswrapper to run.
3. Open ndiswrapper by clicking on Menu/System/Windows Wireless Drivers. This will open the tool that will install the driver. Click on the "Install New Driver" tab and browse to your folder where the driver is located. Select the 32bit or 64bit driver depending upon your system architecture, and click on the "Install" tab. This took only a second or two, it was installed quickly without any problems.
4. At this point, although the driver was installed, my device was not plugged in yet, so the status in the window read, Hardware present: No. So I plugged it in once and I noticed the yellow indicator light on my adapter didn't come on, so I removed it and plugged it in a second time. Not only did the light come on, I noticed my wired connection symbol on the panel in the bottom right corner suddenly change from a wired symbol to wireless symbol. I clicked on it and there were my list of networks to choose from.
5. I selected my router from the list, typed in the password to my router and there you have it, connection established.
That was it, worked like a charm, hope this helps someone.
Mike