(the $1.99 CompUSA special)[HR]Hey everyone, I am a Linux newbie but I actually got something to work by tweaking several different posts and walk throughs and since this card is so cheap ($1.99 after rebates) and I couldn’t find anything specific to the card itself, just other cards with similar chipsets, I thought I would post a HOWTO to hopefully help any others who have this same card.

Here’s the info on the card:
[b:2s4j8u7v]eHome Wireless G Notebook Adapter
[/b:2s4j8u7v]Model: [b:2s4j8u7v]EH101
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As it shows up in the Device Manager of Ubuntu:
Vendor: [b:2s4j8u7v]Marvell Technology Group Ltd.[/b:2s4j8u7v]
Device: [b:2s4j8u7v]88w8335 [Libertas] 802.11b/g Wireless
[/b:2s4j8u7v]OEM Vendor: [b:2s4j8u7v]D-Link Systems Inc.[/b:2s4j8u7v]

So Linux detected it but doesn’t automatically install any drivers for it so it won’t show up under the Networking utility.

Here’s what I did:
I installed “[b:2s4j8u7v]ndiswrapper[/b:2s4j8u7v]” off of Synaptic Package Manager.

I put the driver CD that came with it in the cdrom drive.
I opened up a Terminal screen and typed the following:
[code:2s4j8u7v]cd /cdrom/driver/winxp_2k (browse to the location of the driver file)
sudo ndiswrapper -i mrv8335.inf (your INF file name may vary)
sudo ndiswrapper -l (shows if the driver installed successfully,
this should show “mrv8335 – driver installed, hardware present)
sudo ndiswrapper -m (write the configuration to modprobe)
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe -r ndiswrapper
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper[/code:2s4j8u7v]And after I did this it popped up under my device manager as a network device. I rebooted to make sure that it would stick and it did.