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802.11 Pre-N (802.11g ++) on Linux Laptop for £20
You will need to buy a Belkin Pre-N Card or NETGEAR RangeMax card. For Debian, only lenny or later seemed to contain the necessary gubbins to make working with wireless and WPA less painful than a hip dislocation for the first time in the history of Debian.
1. Install ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-utils. e.g.:
aptitude install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils
ndiswrapper -m
ndiswrapper -hotplug
2. Download NETGEAR drivers for Windows (Belkin Drivers don’t work — don’t waste your time). Click on the ‘Firmware Link’, left-hand side
3. Unzip package. cd to directory /Utility/Driver.
4. Run ndiswrapper to insert the driver:
ndiswrapper -i NETANI.INF
5. (Remove and) insert card. It should light flash => driver is doing it’s funky thang.
6. Click on the network manager icon in the menu bar, and with a bit of luck, you’ll see your network advertised among the long list of other people’s networks that you never knew about!
My next tutorial will describe how to make a tin-foil hat and matching body armour to prevent cross-penetration of the trillions of network packets that usually pass through your body, often leaving unsavoury deposits behind.
