can't find driver for Netgear USB wifi adapter WND3100v2. And etc.

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My system: opensuse 11.2

My device: usb wifi: Netgear N600 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter: WNDA3100-100NAS (Windows install cd says WNDA3100v2, so I guess these are the same thing. Also, on the side of the box it says this in the ‘Package Contents’)

$> lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0846:9011 NetGear, Inc.

$> dmesg | less:
2.199745] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0846, idProduct=9011
2.199749] usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
2.199752] usb 2-4: Product: Remote Download Wireless Adapter
2.199755] usb 2-4: Manufacturer: Broadcom
2.199758] usb 2-4: SerialNumber: 0
2.199834] usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

Yast->hardware->Hardware Information:
-does not show “wireless LAN”
-USB->“Remote Download Wireless Adapter”
-UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_846_9011_0_if0

Question: Where do I get this driver and where do I put it? I searched freedesktop.org and couldn’t find usb_device_846_9011_0_if0.

$> dmesg | grep firmware
16.701553] platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/06-0f-06

Question: Is this even related to my usb wifi adapter? I’m guessing once I get the driver set up, I’ll see something about the firmware. So I’ll worry about that later.

driver ‘usb_device_846_9011_0_if0’ not found at:
- google
- freedesktop.org
- AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. - Home Page
- HCL:Network (Wireless) - openSUSE
- Ralink chipsets based wireless devices
- Linux wireless LAN support http://linux-wless.passys.nl
-shows a driver for v1, but not for v2. v2 is not supported/ no native driver currently exists.

I’m guessing that the device driver exists since it’s given a UDI reference to freedesktop. But how do I find it?

If it does not in fact exist, should I use carl9170 or ndiswrapper? Or should I get a different device?

Thanks for the stickies in the wireless section, those were helpful:
Wireless
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/wireless/410319-getting-your-wireless-work.html
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/wireless/391535-my-wireless-doesnt-work-primer-what-i-should-do-next.html
Ndiswrapper - openSUSE

Thanks for your help.

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On 08/14/2012 02:06 PM, allwheat wrote:
>
> My system: opensuse 11.2

That version is long past EOL.

> My device: usb wifi: Netgear N600 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter:
> WNDA3100-100NAS (Windows install cd says WNDA3100v2, so I guess
> these are the same thing. Also, on the side of the box it says this in
> the ‘Package Contents’)
>
> $> lsusb
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0846:9011 NetGear, Inc.

There are no drivers in the latest kernel that support this device. Even if
there were, your out-of-date kernel would be unlikely to support them.

> $> dmesg | less:
> 2.199745] usb 2-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0846,
> idProduct=9011
> 2.199749] usb 2-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
> SerialNumber=3
> 2.199752] usb 2-4: Product: Remote Download Wireless Adapter
> 2.199755] usb 2-4: Manufacturer: Broadcom
> 2.199758] usb 2-4: SerialNumber: 0
> 2.199834] usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

From postings on the wireless-testing mail list, I know that the Broadcom
developers are working on drivers for some USB-based full MAC devices, but I
have no idea if yours is one of them. In any case, they have not released any code.

> Yast->hardware->Hardware Information:
> -does not show “wireless LAN”
> -USB->“Remote Download Wireless Adapter”
> -UDI:
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_846_9011_0_if0
>
> Question: Where do I get this driver and where do I put it? I searched
> freedesktop.org and couldn’t find usb_device_846_9011_0_if0.
>
>
> $> dmesg | grep firmware
> 16.701553] platform microcode: firmware: requesting
> intel-ucode/06-0f-06
>
> Question: Is this even related to my usb wifi adapter? I’m guessing
> once I get the driver set up, I’ll see something about the firmware. So
> I’ll worry about that later.

It is not.

> driver ‘usb_device_846_9011_0_if0’ not found at:
> - google
> - freedesktop.org
> - ‘AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. - Home Page’
> (http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html)
> - ‘HCL:Network (Wireless) - openSUSE’
> (http://en.opensuse.org/HCL:Network_(Wireless))
> - ‘Ralink chipsets based wireless devices’
> (http://ralink.rapla.net/)
> - ‘Linux wireless LAN support http://linux-wless.passys.nl’
> (http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part.php?brandname=Netgear)
> -shows a driver for v1, but not for v2. v2 is not
> supported/ no native driver currently exists.

There was likely a chip change between V1 and V2. That happens frequently. It
seems that V1 had an RaLink chip - V2 has Broadcom.

> I’m guessing that the device driver exists since it’s given a UDI
> reference to freedesktop. But how do I find it?
>
> If it does not in fact exist, should I use carl9170 or ndiswrapper? Or
> should I get a different device?

Your only option is to try ndiswrapper with the drivers from the Windows CD. How
much success you will have is unknown until you try.

Carl9170 might work with V1, but not with V2. That is definitely not for
Broadcom devices.

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Thanks lwfinger, I’ll give ndiswrapper a try.

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The ndiswrapper method sort of worked. It got me to where I could scan for networks, but after configuring, nothing.

Sorry to say this, but I gave up and put the router by my computer and went with ethernet, while my wife’s (Windows) computer now uses the Netgear wifi adapter.