If so, copy the file to your home directory (Places > Home Folder) in Ubuntu. If like me you don't have a wired connection you'll be having to do this on another machine. At the time of writing this was version 1.52. You should be able to download the latest version by finding NDISwrapper on SourceForge. Having the latest version may be advantageous anyway, and I learned a lot through doing my first Linux build, so this is the method I will detail here. I failed to get either of these to work due to the CD corruption mentioned above, so I ended up downloading and building the latest version.
#Netgear wireless usb adapter driver g54 install#
You can install it from the Synaptic Package Manager (System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager) or by opening a terminal window and using the apt-get command. NDISwrapper is actually included with Ubuntu 7.10, but it's not installed by default. If you have a Windows driver for your network adapter (most do I assume), NDISwrapper allows you to use this Windows driver under Linux. Step One - Install NDISwrapper The first thing you'll need is a tool called NDISwrapper. This is the method I used to get everything working. There is an option to check the CD in the CD's boot menu. This caused a lot of unnecessary frustration. Mine turned out to be corrupted, despite the fact that I was initially able to install Ubuntu to hard disk without any reported problems. It's definitely worth checking that your Ubuntu Live CD is free of errors if you haven't already.
#Netgear wireless usb adapter driver g54 Pc#
The adapter I have is a WG111v3, although I believe this should work for other versions as well as other Netgear wireless adapters such as the WG311 PCI card and WG511 PC card/PCMCIA adapter by downloading the relevant. The Ubuntu forums were a great deal of help, most of the information here was learned from there, in particular the post "Installing a Netgear WG111v3 or other similar wireless" by stooshbunutu. Hopefully others will be able to make use of this. I learned a lot about Linux in a very short space of time by doing this and I'll detail what I learned here. I've decided to document the process I went through to set this up. Unfortunately I found that my Netgear WG111 USB wireless adapter was not currently supported on Linux, and I had to jump through a few hoops to get online. The version I'm using is 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). I went for Ubuntu, which from what I can tell is one of the most popular distributions.
I recently decided I should really start using Linux properly, at least at home.