USB wireless Netgear adapter Ubuntu 16.04

My netgear wireless adapter appears to be the same model as from this thread, but the steps didn't end up working out for me. No errors were given. Note: This is the second attempt, so some files are already installed/updated. I'm on a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04, I'm not used to the environment.

Here's the terminal after each step:

1. Note: I can't post more than 2 links, so I delete the http:// in front of the hits/gets.

   $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0846:9011 NetGear, Inc. WNDA3100v2 802.11abgn [Broadcom BCM4323] $ sudo apt-get update Hit:1 xenial InRelease Get:2 xenial-updates InRelease [95.7 kB] Hit:3 xenial-backports InRelease Get:4 xenial-security InRelease [94.5 kB] Fetched 190 kB in 1s (142 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done $ sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'ndiswrapper' instead of 'ndiswrapper-common' ndiswrapper is already the newest version (1.59-6). ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 is already the newest version (1.59-6). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded. 

2. Downloaded the files from post #6 and put them onto my desktop.

   $ arch x86_64 $ cd ~/Desktop/Broadcom_bcm43xx_USB_32_64bit_v2 

   My command line now appears as:

   shawn@shawn-Z68XP-UD3P:~/Desktop/Broadcom_bcm43xx_USB_32_64bit_v2$ 

3. As arch returned x84_64 I issued:

   $ sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmn43xx64.inf driver bcmn43xx64 is already installed $ sudo ndiswrapper -ma module configuration information is stored in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper.conf 

4. This step didn't return any information back.

   sudo depmod -a 

5. This step also didn't return any information back.

   sudo modprobe ndiswrapper 

Thanks for any help. I was going to pm Chili555, the author of the answer to the previous thread, but I couldn't find an option. (Maybe I need more rep?)

Edit 1:

$ dmesg | grep ndis [25668.481615] rndis_host 5-2:1.0 usb0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:06:00.0-2, RNDIS device, 02:06:52:50:34:39 [25668.481640] usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host [25668.490912] rndis_host 5-2:1.0 enp6s0u2: renamed from usb0 

with the correct adapter in:

$ dmesg | grep ndis [25668.481615] rndis_host 5-2:1.0 usb0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:06:00.0-2, RNDIS device, 02:06:52:50:34:39 [25668.481640] usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host [25668.490912] rndis_host 5-2:1.0 enp6s0u2: renamed from usb0 [27435.290896] rndis_host 5-2:1.0 enp6s0u2: unregister 'rndis_host' usb-0000:06:00.0-2, RNDIS device [53404.308888] rndis_host 5-2:1.0 usb0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:06:00.0-2, RNDIS device, 02:06:52:50:34:39 [53404.321914] rndis_host 5-2:1.0 enp6s0u2: renamed from usb0 [53499.506118] ndiswrapper: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel [53499.507750] ndiswrapper version 1.59 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no) [53499.681200] ndiswrapper: driver bcmn43xx64 (,08/26/2009, 5.10.79.30) loaded [53499.788872] rndis_host 5-2:1.0 enp6s0u2: unregister 'rndis_host' usb-0000:06:00.0-2, RNDIS device [53500.230542] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper [53500.236500] ndiswrapper 1-1.4:1.0 enxe0469a00acaa: renamed from wlan0 [53500.261564] ndiswrapper: interface renamed to 'enxe0469a00acaa' [53522.657592] rndis_host 5-2:1.0 usb0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:06:00.0-2, RNDIS device, 02:06:52:50:34:39 [53522.676968] rndis_host 5-2:1.0 enp6s0u2: renamed from usb0 

1 Answer

According to the comments reinstalling ndiswrapper and reperforming the steps following the installation fixed the issue. To reinstall ndiswrapper:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-dkms