Use the links on this page to download the latest version of NETGEAR WNA3100M N300 Wireless Mini USB Adapter drivers. All drivers available for download have been scanned by antivirus program. Use the links on this page to download the latest version of NETGEAR WNA3100 N300 Wireless USB Adapter drivers. All drivers available for download have been scanned by antivirus program.
I am new to Linux and Ubuntu and I am having trouble connecting to the Internet.
I have a netgear WNA3100 USB Adapter and I don't have anything in my additional drivers.
Zanna
3 Answers
You can add Support for the Netgear N-300/ WNA3100 USB Adapter by installing the ndiswrapper and loading the Windows network driver.
Install the ndiswrapper modules
Activate the ndiswrapper:
Load the driver into the ndiswrapper:
Navigate to where you saved the driver (look at the Download Windows Netgear Drivers section below):
Download the Windows Netgear Drivers
You can download the driver from NetGear Site: WNA3100 Drivers. The only thing you need from the download package is the WNA3100 folder.
The exptracted WNA3100 folder is available at:
http://faq.apollo3.com/ljames/ubuntu/networksupport/
Note:You only need wine for extracting the WNA3100.zip package from the setup.exe file from the Netgear site. After running setup.exe you'll find the zip package in:
Netgear N300 Wifi Usb Adapter Treiber Download
L. D. JamesL. D. JamesI've used the same wifi adapter for Ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04 it worked fine for me. If you have a lan connection do an update.
sudo apt-get update
Make sure that networking is enabled and try to connect manually from the network wizard.
Check the following guide to install the Windows driver in Ubuntu
Supported usb adapters by Ubuntu:
Please do not delete this post even if its not an answer. I am convinced that it will help a lot of users.
I just want to share my experience (especially for users who do not have a usb wifi dongle and want to buy one).
I just had the worst experience ever. After each kernel update it wan't working and i had to use a lot of complicated commands to make it work. Internet gives 1000 different solution and only some of them may work (after spending hours and hours). And when I restart or put my pc on sleep the wifi connection was never automatic. I had to turn it of and on again! such a pain
In order to avoid such a headache I just bought a WiFi PCIe card (a tp-link ac1900. I guess other PCIe card also works well but I haven't tried them. I just put that card inside my computer then i opened the additional driver menu and enabled the propriatary driver broadcom. Now my card works like a charm. I lost a bit money because I bought the usb wifi for nothing but I am much more happy to save my time and have a pleasant linux user experience.
Besides that there is many different size of PCI slots. Usually the wireless pcie cards have the size x1. My pc does not have x1, but i put the card in a x16 pcie slot and now it's fully compatible.
I know I do not answer to the question directely. But I hope that my post will be usefull for some users.