Sunday, April 12, 2009

Having problems with your wireless network card?

It was very easy for me to get this wireless card installed...
The part that was very difficult was finding the right instructions.
  • In my case, I have a VGN-NR310E Sony VAIO laptop with a built in ethernet pci express Atheros card.
The way I got this working and it is pretty easy is the next few steps:
  1. Open up Synaptic Package Manager
  2. Search for ndiswrapper that will list 3 different files called ndisgtk, ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 and ndiswrapper-common.
  3. Install this 3 files and close the Synaptic Package manager.
  4. Now open a terminal window and type "sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist" and add this at the end of the file, blacklist bcm43xx, blacklist b43, blacklist b43legacy and blacklist ssb. Each of those are in seperate lines without commas. Which will disable any wireless built in drivers for atheros that might conflict with the ones we're about to install.
  5. Now, make sure you have the drivers from windows. Not the .exe files but the .sys and .inf files.
  6. Now we need to go to System/Administration/Windows wireless drivers
  7. Once it is open you need to click Install new driver and open the .inf file that will automatically read the .sys file. Both are needed
  8. Once you add the driver you just reboot and wireless will be working.
If any error prevent you from continue following the instructions just go to this page and check for further information.

I Hope this works as it did for me. Good Luck!!!

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