My device's serial number starts with WG16, so according to the Netgear Knowledgebase that means it's a WG111v1. The ndiswrapper page directs you to the Netgear site to get the Windows driver for your device. According to that page, the WG111v1 has a Prism54 (Intersil 3886 and NetChip NET2280) chipset. I then found the corresponding entry on the ndiswrapper supported devices list. I ran the lsusb command to determine my adapter's usbid, which is 0846:4220. which got me w-t version 27-r1 and ndiswrapper version 1.1-r1. (Note that the WG111U and WG111T are different devices than the WG111.) I had searched for info on this device before and discovered that ndiswrapper supports it, so to begin I installed ndiswrapper and wireless-tools: I bought the Netgear WG111, which is an 802.11b/g device, supporting 11 or 54 Mbps.

This was done on a Pentium-III notebook running 2.6.10-gentoo-r6, with USB1 (UHCI) ports, i.e. Posted: Fri 8:24 am Post subject: Wireless success via USB: Netgear WG111, ndiswrapper, WPAĪfter conquering the Netgear WG311 PCI adapter on my desktop system, I wanted to get a fast (802.11g) and secure (WPA) USB wireless network adapter working in Linux, for my car stereo computer and for my fiancee's laptop. Gentoo Forums Forum Index Networking & Security

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