If someone could kindly give a hint how I can move ahead with my online connection, I would be very grateful. I would like to past my Win98 Netgear wg111v2 driver (.inf file) into my home folder, and point NDISwrapper to that. Then it should be all set. If someone could tell me how to do this, that should be all I need. (The connection will work either by DCIP (variable IP) or by static IP address assignment.)

I have this device and have used it in Kubuntu and Antix 7.1. I just tried it in 7.2 and no go. I know it uses the linux rtl8187 driver but I don't see available now.

To use ndiswrapper copy the driver into your /home. Open a terminal and I believe you need to be root now and type: If it installed correctly you should see it by doing: If it show up ok then all you need to do is: Now type mnetwork and set up the network information as needed. So it will work on reboot, you will need to add it to /etc/modules so: add"ndiswrapper" to the list, save and close.

More info:

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Thanks. I'll try it just as soon as I get some boot-up issues settled. I think in addition to the steps you gave I may need to also blacklist the driver (generally rtl8187 or r8187) that normally works with wg111v2, but I'll cross that path when I get to it. Such was always needed in Ubuntu, and it was also needed in Tinyflux.

eriefisher wrote:I have this device and have used it in Kubuntu and Antix 7.1. I just tried it in 7.2 and no go. I know it uses the linux rtl8187 driver but I don't see available now.

To use ndiswrapper copy the driver into your /home. Open a terminal and I believe you need to be root now and type:

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ndiswrapper -i <nameofdriver.inf>

I copied the driver into my /home. And then tried the above command-- but I kept getting an error that there was"no such file or directory in"usr/bins/ndiswrapper-19"" or something like that. This is by memory, as of course I cannot get on line in AntiX to report it to you.

I tried"ndiswrapper -i /home/swarup/win98/net111v2.inf"; When that didn't work I tried"ndiswrapper -i net111v2.inf"; I also tried"ndiswrapper -i home/swarup/win98/net111v2.inf", but none worked.
Every time I got the same error, that there was no such file or directory in usr/bins/ndiswrapper-19. So I went to that location thinking I would put the driver there as well; but it was the NDISwrapper code in a file. So of course I couldn't put the driver inside a file.

eriefisher wrote:If it installed correctly you should see it by doing:

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ndiswrapper -l

And of course, this was not successful. It just shows a list of the installed drivers which were there beforehand.