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I bought the Netgear A6200 USB wireless adapter, and I used WINE to run the installer from the disk that came with the adapter, but it failed part way through. Is there any way to get this to work?

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You might try the files at post #7 here: forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=79948 – chili555 May 3 '14 at 22:10
    
I'm not familiar with Ubuntu. How do you use ndiswrapper to load .inf files? – thechemEnt May 3 '14 at 22:13
    
Also, tried the method on post 7, but it still isn't working. After I try it and type "ndiswrapper -l" is says "bcmwlhigh5 : driver installed" But....when I plug in the USB adapter, it doesn't work. – thechemEnt May 3 '14 at 22:28
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So, after doing a little digging, I got it to work. You do get far enough in the install using WINE for this to work properly. Here are the steps: 1. Open the shell, and type in cd .wine 2. cd drive_c 3. cd Program\ Files\ (x86)/ 4. cd NETGEAR 5. cd A6200 6. cd Drivers 7. sudo diswrapper -i nameoffile .inf 8. sudo modprobe diswrapper 9. sudo ndiswrapper -m And that got it to work. Note: The adapter did NOT work until after the command sudo modprobe diswrapper – thechemEnt May 3 '14 at 22:52
    
Glad it's working! Great job. – chili555 May 3 '14 at 23:23
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With Ubuntu 14.04 I did the following steps:

sudo apt-get install ndisgtk
wget www.mediafire.com/?od9wpw6ccrnyhaa
unzip A6200_Linux_drivers.zip
sudo ndisgtk

Then when ndisgtk is running, choose the file ending in "ing" that was unzipped. It should be bcmwlhigh5.inf. Once that is installed you can select a wifi network from the Network menu-bar item.

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wget didn't work... had to go to the link directly in a browser – wordsforthewise Sep 3 '16 at 2:27
    
I also don't know how to confirm that it's working, and that I'm not using my internal wifi card – wordsforthewise Sep 3 '16 at 2:29
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Solved with https://github.com/jurobystricky/Netgear-A6210 - plug your device out before the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/jurobystricky/Netgear-A6210
cd Netgear-A6210
make
sudo make install

If your device was plugged in before the above steps, unplug and re-attach, the OS will detect and you should see available Wifi hotspots

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