Ubuntu – Netgear USB wifi adapter driver for Ubuntu

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I recently switched over from windows 8 to Ubuntu and the installation process went by really smoothly. Once everything was complete, I came across one small problem in terms of wifi connection. I have a MSI Z77 MPower and it has wifi detection built in; and it's terrible. Weak wifi so my solution was to get a Netgear USB wifi adapter.

When it comes to Ubuntu, I'm not able to install the driver for Ubuntu to detect the Netgear adapter. The built in wifi detector on my mobo is too weak to even load a webpage, leaving me with no internet connection for Ubuntu.
Is there any way for me to get the driver through windows 8 and transfer it to Ubuntu via USB or any way to extend the wifi detection capabilities of my MSI motherboard?

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Netgear Wifi USB, this is a bit vague. Please identify the USB model # and revision #

and yes you can import the driver into Ubuntu using ndis-wrapper, but this requires that the driver package includes the .inf file.

Look for:

With Ubuntu 14.04 I did the following steps

This post should help getting the driver and show you how to get ndis-wrapper working Install Windows driver in Ubuntu

Try installing the latest driver from Realtek, released on July 4, 2012:

Download it from the website here:
Extract the zip file to your Downloads folder.

Open a terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T, and type/paste the following, line by line:

sudo apt-get install build-essential -y
cd Downloads/rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20120405
sudo ./install.sh

That should build and install the latest driver -- may take a few minutes. Then reboot, and see if it's any better.

Ubuntu – Netgear A6100 on ubuntu 14.04

Your device uses the rare and elusive driver 8812au. Please get a temporary wired ethernet or similar connection, open a terminal and do:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential git
git clone https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux.git
cd ~/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe 8812au

Your wireless should now be working.

When Update Manager installs a later linux-image, recompile:

cd rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux/
make clean
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe 8812au

Please retain the file and these instructions for that time.

We probably need to blacklist the internal driver to keep from interfering. Please tell me its driver from the command:

 sudo lshw -C network

I will then edit this answer to provide instructions.

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