Use caution here, RTL8192CU seems much more common but needs a tweaked proprietary RealTekdriver to work reliably. One is Trendnet's TEW-649UB using RealTek's RTL8192SU chipset. If you have a laptop, can you get a one-time ethernet cable connection to install wireless drivers? If not and wireless is the only option, I have a couple USB dongles that have been plug 'n' play for a couple years at least. Lol they told me 'leave Windows and switch to Linux, it's simple and easy.'Ĭatch 22, isn't it? I use two options in addition to praseodym's good solutions. There is nothing following after that.How am I supposed to do it if I don't have the drivers to connect to the internet? This is what the terminal says: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0846: 9020 NetGear, Inc. This is what the package says: N300 WNA3100,

I know the equipment is not bad, I just don't know how to make them communicate with each other.

The difference is that my laptop is Vista, and I HATE Vista.Įdit command lsusb: Bus 008-004 with various ids Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub (basically recognizing my mouse, keyboard, and the netgear is connected) and then for the command arch: I get i686 My laptop recognizes the hardware, and would easily install the software if I prompted it to. I have tested USB port to just verify that the USB port works.

I've tried just plugging it in and seeing if the computer will automatically recognize the hardware, and go from there. Now I have tried so far, using WINE which does not want to work, I have tried Windows Wireless Drivers which doesn't want to work, I have tried Software Sources, Other Software and it will not acknowledge the cdrom as a repository stating errors like E:Unable to stat the mount point /cdrom/ -stat (2: No such file or directory) However I can open the CD icon on my computer and access and browse the files.

So any advice will have to take that into account. I am presently on my laptop searching for answers while trying to install this little device. I can NOT access the internet via anything but wireless. This seems to be the problem, which if the hardware would work would theoretically fix the problem. I don't have internet presently on the desktop I am trying to install the USB wireless adapter on.

Belkin n300 driver wna3100