I have a couple of taps including a wireless Netgear WG111v3, and as often happens in the Linux world there are no drivers. So to make it work we must turn to ndiswrapper and use the Windows drivers downloadable from here.

apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

Then unpack and go into the folder and install WG111 drivers

ndiswrapper-i WG111v3.inf

At this point simply load the module

modprobe ndiswrapper

controlled

ndiswrapper-l

and we will get something like

DebianBox: / home / edmond # ndiswrapper-l
wg111v3: driver installed
device (0846:4260) present

if we were faced with a similar error

FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.

we can solve the problem with module-assistant

apt-get install module-assistant ndiswrapper-source

compile modules ndiswrapper

but the ndiswrapper

reload module

modprobe ndiswrapper

now everything should work.

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