islingtonclaret Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 This should be a subject for the Ubuntu forums, but after searching and searching it's really starting to piss me off. (props to darrenm, after I berated him on the "work failures" thread - sorry about that, but if you're feeling generous you -might- help me on this Here's the shorthand: -Have dell desktop. Dimension, pentium 4. Nothing out of the ordinary. -Have PCI wireless card installed, Netgear that, if you're using Windows uses wg311v3 drivers based on Marvell chipset -Have Ubuntu 12.10 LTS Can't get this wireless card to work at all, despite going though plenty of workarounds and fixes. Lowdown is that ndiswrapper, linux's native windows driver wrapper, has started to not work with this driver. It previously worked. Stumbling point is using the modprobe ndiswrapper command in terminal. It's not having it. Saying "FATAL -module ndiswrapper not found. All solutions using ndisgtk installations with ndiswrapper 1.9 don't work. So, I currently have ndiswrapper installed and reading in the driver, but it's not attaching to the kernal. HELP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted July 3, 2013 Administrator Share Posted July 3, 2013 I've never needed to use ndiswrapper so I can't help directly, but does it work with a 13.04 live image? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islingtonclaret Posted July 3, 2013 Author Share Posted July 3, 2013 (edited) I might give that a go. The reason I went for 12.10LTS is because this is going to have a LAMP stack whacked onto it and will become my test environment for various frameworks and MySQL data modelling - so as stable as is possible. Will post results when I get them... Edited July 3, 2013 by islingtonclaret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted July 3, 2013 Administrator Share Posted July 3, 2013 Install virtualbox and install a debian stable instance for your LAMP stack. You can then move it from host to host as necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Just buy an Intel 6200 card off eBay for a tenner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted July 3, 2013 Administrator Share Posted July 3, 2013 I agree with Darren, but I'd also run the LAMP stack in a virtual machine. There's lots of benefits to running your stack in a stable enterprise class OS, especially one you can migrate between machines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted July 3, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted July 3, 2013 I thought the 6200 was pretty much laptop-only? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islingtonclaret Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 Got no cash at the moment, so can't even pick up a chump change card. Virtualisation is something I would be looking into but that's certainly running before I can walk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted July 4, 2013 Administrator Share Posted July 4, 2013 Got no cash at the moment, so can't even pick up a chump change card. Virtualisation is something I would be looking into but that's certainly running before I can walk! I don't think it is. Install virtualbox, create new image, point to Debian ISO. If you aren't comfortable with that, how are you going to get comfortable tuning MySQL? First time, just take default settings for everything and remember this IP address: 10.0.2.2. You'll probably find 13.04 can see your wifi card, which would mean spending nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islingtonclaret Posted July 6, 2013 Author Share Posted July 6, 2013 My running before I can walk quote is in reference to really needing ndiswrapper to talk to the wireless card first, before I start firing up Virtual boxes for the LAMP stack. I've not got my Mac with me at the moment, so I can't burn the DVD image for Ubuntu 13 which is a bit annoying- should have the laptop back later today though. Not quite getting the requirements here limpid - I've already said it's a Pentium 4 Dell - are you saying that a virtual server of Ubuntu or Debian (or whatever I put on there for that matter) will actually run respectibly on this machine?! Thought ideal solutions were for VMWare boxes etc. and quad cores to handle this stuff, didn't think it would be so readily available at home. Mind you, for that matter, I didn't expect Oracle would be putting out a GNU product for this either, do shows what I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islingtonclaret Posted July 6, 2013 Author Share Posted July 6, 2013 Oh my God. I've just sorted it. Realised the spare wireless card wasn't another Neargear WG311, but a Belkin card that works straight out of the box. Unbelievable! Now, virtual boxes....paging limpid, darren... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted July 6, 2013 Administrator Share Posted July 6, 2013 Yes a pentium 4 will run a Debian virtual just fine. There's hardly any overhead compared to running it native. It's going to crawl anyway. Try it. What do you have to lose? Please start a new thread(s?) for other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 Yes a pentium 4 will run a Debian virtual just fine. There's hardly any overhead compared to running it native. It's going to crawl anyway. Try it. What do you have to lose? Please start a new thread(s?) for other stuff. I'm not sure it will. It won't have VT or SVM so there won't be any hardware virtualisation, and VirtualBox is only really optimised for that these days. There's a big difference between native and software virtualisation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islingtonclaret Posted July 6, 2013 Author Share Posted July 6, 2013 Will start a new thread, might as well lock this one since the wireless problem got solved pretty easily! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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