I have a shitty n-300 wireless adapter to connect to wifi, but
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I have a shitty n-300 wireless adapter to connect to wifi, but I don't think Ubuntu supports it. How can I make it work on Ubuntu or Debian without connecting a ethernet cable to my PC and downloading shit?
My Netgear n-300, BTW.
Bump, really need help
I plugged a shitty n-300 wireless adaper into my debian machine to see if it would work and it wiped my fucking network config
>>53759998
If its some obscure brand it probably wont work.
You should always buy a namebrand like TP-link or Alfa etc because they use well known broadcom and atheros chips.
You could ask in the ubuntu forums, Or try another distro with a newer kernel, If that doesn't work then drivers are probably not available for it.
>>53761128
Its netgear,
If it doesn't work with ubuntu, it won't work at all. They use a binary blob filled kernel.
Almost no wireless works with debian out of the box you need the nonfree firmware package. Btw don't bother installing with the nonfree firmware live cd because it won't even install it, only uses it to install the system, because debian devs are retarded.
>>53761882
I have heard of this program called ndiswrapper where it would like carry windows drivers to Ubuntu, but I could never compile it...