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have just spent the best part of about 4 hours installing ndiswrapper and a Netgear WG311v3 to a new PC running Ubuntu 8.10 x64 bit. All the turorials that I seemed to fine all mentioned the same way of going about to get this card up and running, but it wasn’t until not I came across a post somewhere saying to check ‘dsmeg’ and see what it say. There I found that it was saying that I’m running a 64 bit kernel, and the driver is only 32 bit, and that it was “bad magic”, lol!! Anyway, James Wilson has made some 64 bit drivers for this particular wifi card.

Many thanks to James for these drivers. I was starting to go nuts trying to get this card working. I have put this post up to help spread the word about these drivers, and show people that there is success on the horizon regarding this wifi card.

I’ve been having some issues with my DrayTek Vigor2600G lately. Mainly with the wireless part, and I haven’t really been using it for the last month or so. I’ve had my notebook connected via ethernet, but that darn blue cable can get rather annoying. So today I went out and brought the Netgear WNDR3300. It’s a RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Router which is pretty sweet, and so far it’s been great. The coverage is awesome, though my Nokia N95 8GB is having some issues finding the wireless network, but for now, I’m not to worried about that.

Later on down the track I’m looking at getting a Netgear WNHDE111 to hook up to my Xbox360 resulting in getting rid of the 15m ethernet cable and my wife Lisa will be a happy woman.