Netgear RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N USB (WNDA3100)

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I have several network cards and this one Netgear RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N USB (WNDA3100) ] is the one I would like to use to connect to my network… I searched opensuse for any relevent topics to this device and found none, was wondering if opensuse supported it. If so, method of installment since I am unfamiliar with opensuse, been a while since I used linux period, last time I used it I was successful with ndiswrapper in ubuntu on a different device.

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I found a post for someone using a different Linux distro that got their adapter to work at:

[ubuntu] HOWTO: Netgear RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N 300 USB Adapter (WNDA3100) [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums](http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-885520.html)

Sounds like you need to use the Windows driver and ndiswrapper to use it in Linux. The reviews I saw said it had limited range and perhaps this adapter will be more trouble than it is worth to use under openSUSE. The very first laptop I had under SuSE 10.0 required that I use the Windows driver and ndiswarpper to make it work. It was a lot of trouble, but it did work OK however.

Thank You,

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Thank you, it didn’t occur to me to look on there for the answer, limited range is just fine for me though it picks up my router just fine and works just fine in other wifi places… if I was going for range id get a more powerful card but their more expensive so usb close range for dekstop works out well. Thank you again and will try it out.

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This may be of use: Madwifi or Ndiswrapper Wireless Network Drivers - Suse/openSUSE 10, 11 - LAN & Internet access

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cybergig22 happy to help. Please come back and let us know if you got it to work.

Thank You,

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DEar all
I has read your posts but…
I have a range max that works well with windows ; I use SUSE 12.1
I installed ndiswrapper seems OK
says device 0846:9001111 installed
I modprobed
I attempted to add a new card ; with module name ndiswrapper no error returned

however no wieless network is detected.
iwcongig returns
l0 no wireless extensiuon and eth0 no wireless extension (there is one ethernet card)
iwconfigg 0846:9001 essid … returns no 0846:9001111

PLease help me I have somethind called wlan0 I cannot edit
Bernard siretb@free.fr