I just wanted to say that I truly appreciate the follow up on this post/bug. 
It never even occurred to me that it might be a 62 bit problem.  In 
retrospect, the whole thing started when I made my 32 bit machine a network 
server and installed a new 62 bit box as my desktop.

Thanks folks.
jwf

-----Original Message----- 
From: JohnnyLeitrim
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 4:42 AM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 622524] Re: WNDA3100v2 not working

That's a coincidence!  I can conform what alricsca has said - it doesn't 
work on 64bit, but does on 32bit.
Interestingly, I removed ndiswrapper, and tried to use Windows on VirtualBox 
to talk to my Netgear USB, and when VirtualBox was accessing the device, all 
USB devices started hanging (including mouse/keyboard), and the machine more 
or less crashed - so it appears that whatever the problem is, it's not just 
related to ndiswrapper...

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Title:
  WNDA3100v2 not working

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-nettool

  With reference to question 122091; first, I thank the responder for
  the advice and effort to that question.

  This is an effort to get a Netgear USB WNDAv2 wireless to work with
  Ubuntu 10.

  1 - installed wine to extract the driver file from Netgear.
  2 - downloaded WNDA3100v2 Software versions 1.7, 1.6, 1.2, 1.1 and 1.0.  I 
did this because wine would not extract 1.1 through 1.7.  I finally settled 
on 1.0 which ran through the setup.exe routine in wine.
  3 - copied the WinXP2000 file with the following files to /usr/local

   -rwxrwxr-x 1 ferk ferk   7427 2009-06-08 11:52 bcmh43xx64.cat
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 ferk ferk   7450 2009-06-08 11:52 bcmh43xx.cat
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 ferk ferk 747008 2009-05-05 12:00 bcmwlhigh564.sys
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 ferk ferk 167298 2009-05-15 11:58 bcmwlhigh5.inf
  -rwxrwxr-x 1 ferk ferk 632576 2009-05-05 12:00 bcmwlhigh5.sys

  4 - installed the latest version of ndiswrapper from sourceforge.

  5 - ran ndiswrapper -i bcmwlhigh5.inf

  6 - command ndiswrapper -l indicated both the device and the driver were 
present
  7 - loading the ndiswrapper did not solve the connection problem; the 
wireless usb connection does not yet work. There is no output for wlan0 with 
the iwconfig command. This shows no wireless device to be present.

  8 - blacklisted the following in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf to
  avoid any driver conflicts:

  #conflict with ndsiwrapper
  #(see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper)
  blacklist bcm43xx
  blacklist b43
  blacklist b43legacy
  blacklist ssb

  NOW, an additional problem has popped-up. - Not only does the WNDA3100
  still not work but I need to blacklist ndiswrapper at startup.  Reason
  is that if the ndiswrapper module is loaded at boot, the main login
  screen no longer opens  and I cannot login to the system.  I need to
  boot into failsafe at the root level and blacklist ndiswrapper, then
  reboot the system.

  If the ndiswrapper module is loaded at boot, I cannot even use the GUI
  failsafe mode as no login screen appears.

  I have reinstalled the OS three times today.  I can confirm absolutely
  that the system is completely current and that blacklisting
  ndiswrapper prior to booting is the core of the problem.  It does not
  make any difference if I install ndiswrapper from Synaptic or from
  Sourceforge.

  Additional information:

  root@reuben:~# /lib/firmware# apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hwinfo 
grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat 
/etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo 
lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep 
'ound|irmware|eth|ath|wl|ipw|rtl|rt2|b43|witch|ndiswrapper'; iwconfig; grep 
b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; 
sudo lsmod; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
  -bash: /lib/firmware#: No such file or directory
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  hwinfo is already the newest version.
  grep is already the newest version.
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    *-network
         description: Ethernet interface
         product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
         vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
         physical id: 0
         bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
         logical name: eth0
         version: 02
         serial: 00:25:64:03:23:51
         size: 100MB/s
         capacity: 100MB/s
         width: 64 bits
         clock: 33MHz
         capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom 
ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
         configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 
driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.4 latency=0 link=yes 
multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
         resources: irq:27 ioport:e800(size=256) 
memory:fbfff000-fbffffff(prefetchable) 
memory:fbfe0000-fbfeffff(prefetchable) 
memory:febe0000-febfffff(prefetchable)
  lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

  eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback


  auto wlan0
  iface wlan0 inet dhcp
  wireless-essid homeoffice
  DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
  DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
  DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS"
  00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM 
Controller [8086:2e30] (rev 03)
  00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express 
Root Port [8086:2e31] (rev 03)
  00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High 
Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
  00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express 
Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
  00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express 
Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)
  00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI 
Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
  00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI 
Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
  00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI 
Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
  00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI 
Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
  00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 
EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
  00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] 
(rev e1)
  00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC 
Interface Bridge [8086:27b8] (rev 01)
  00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE 
Controller [8086:27c0] (rev 01)
  00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller 
[8086:27da] (rev 01)
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GT218 
[GeForce 210] [10de:0a65] (rev a2)
  01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio 
Controller [10de:0be3] (rev a1)
  03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)

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