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[ubuntu] Wireless stopped working after update. i'm at a total loss :(

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hello. I'm useing a netgear WNA 3100 USB adapter. I got it to work after alot of work and everything was fine. But yesterday there was some kind of update and i'm sure it said something about ndiswrapper.. and after reboot it was messed up. ndiswrapper -l gives me Quote: bcmwlhigh5 : driver installed device (0846:9020) present But iwconfig gives me Quote: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. I have no idea what to do, I keep getting FATAL: Module (Hardware)

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Submitted by dayu on 12/20/2012

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Hi, After googling around, I followed some of the steps I'd seen in this forum to get the usb adapter working.

lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0846:9020 NetGear, Inc. WNA3100(v1) Wireless-N 300 [Broadcom BCM43231]

I have standard 11.10 that I upgraded, arch is i686

I downloaded ndiswrapper using the Ubuntu Software Center.

After following the instructions I installed the proper drivers and ndiswrapper program, etc., a month ago.

But last night I updated to the latest distro and this broke my system: it can no longer detect my wireless USB adapter.

The blue light works but there's no connexion between the system and the USB adapter. I've tried several different workin USB ports to no avail.

I identified the device ID of my USB Wi-Fi dongle...

[root@localhost benny]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1385:4251 Netgear, Inc WG111T (no firmware)

I downloaded a recommended driver and proceeded to install it on ndiswrapper, then I checked it was successful...

[root@localhost ndis5]# ndiswrapper -l athfmwdl : driver installed device (1385:4251) present netwg11t : driver installed

I am new to linux and have just installed the latest SUSE on my Amilo laptop. I am having major problems getting my wireless to work. I have installed the xp drivers using ndiswrapper but am having no further luck. As a newbie to Linux I have hit a brick wall.

ndsiswrapper -l comes up with: sis163u : driver installed device (0BF8:100F) present

No wireless adapter found ! 30 weeks 3 days ago

Hi,I recently came to #!. Because i was using ethernet all the time i didnt check if i can get my wireless working. So today i saw that I can't even see possible connections.

Hi,I recently came to #!. Because i was using ethernet all the time i didnt check if i can get my wireless working. So today i saw that I can't even see possible connections.

Hi All,

My NETGEAR-WNDA3100 wireless USB adapter seems to be set up correctly; driver installed via NDISWRAPPER and firmware seems to work fine. The USB Adapter is blinking as if in a LISTENING mode. Unfortunately, the NETWORK MANAGER does not detect any network other than the Wired one (the signal is strong as Win XP alternative boot has no problem with it).

My 10.04 system won't recognize my LM Technologies LM006 Wireless Adapter.

Terminal gives me:

$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

pan0 no wireless extensions.

And:

$ rfkill list all 0: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no

Not sure what to do to get my system to see this adapter.

Ok, so I've been following some other threads about this, as well as another site.