[PLUG] Installing NetGear WN111v2 USB wireless card
Kirk Wah Yick
wahyickk at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 15 03:47:16 UTC 2015
Cool! Thanks for your help! I was able to get it working!
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 7:06 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, January 31, 2015, Kirk Wah Yick <wahyickk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>> Kind of new to Linux and am trying to install the USB network adapter onto
>> a Kali x32 VM using Virtual Box. Have been researching this but have not
>> been successful in my attempts to get this working. These are the two
>> approaches I have tried.
>>
>> Installed the Windows 7 driver successfully onto Windows 7 and usb card
>> works. Then tried to use ndiswrapper to make it Linux compatible which
>> didn’t seem to work.
>>
>> Read some forums that indicated I needed to use the carl9170 driver as
>> that is what took the place of ar9170 driver but can’t seem to find it
>> anywhere. I can see the device listed when doing lsusb command but am not
>> able to get the drivers installed.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be great if anyone has any ideas. Thank you!
>>
>> Kirk
>>
>>
> I just saw your post ( it ended up in my spam folder) and didn't see any
> replies.
>
> With virtualbox you have to download and install the USB extension pack to
> allow USB 2.0 pass through. You may also need to set the USB config in
> virtualbox to grab it from the host. Then! You should see it in lsusb.
> Without it showing up in lsusb the driver won't ever see it
>
>
>
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