Getting wireless card to work in Debian with wpa_supplicant

Question

I'm having difficulty getting a Netgear WG311 network card to work with Debian. Here is a screenshot showing ifconfig wlan0, iwconfig, network interface cards, and wpa_supplicant configs:

I understand that the wpa doesn't work with third-party drivers and ndiswrapper; I've been told to use wpa_supplicant instead. How can I get my windows driver to work with the Netgear WG311 wireless card?

UPDATE

ok had a look at the resource that Macieg gave me. Finally got a connection but after restart it is gone.

the output of this command. wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D wext

just shows wpa_supplicant help commands.

UPDATE2

Ok the connection comes up after restart, but only 5 minutes after i do this command

wpa_supplicant -B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 -Dwext

Anyone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

wpa_supplicant does have support for ndiswrapper and should be run like this:

wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D wext 

Instructions how to install ndiswrapper drivers - however I never use ndiswrapper.

If it does not help you have to say what is the output of:

wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D wext 

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As a side note - to use WPA you need user program called wpa supplicant. The most popular one is wpa_supplicant. Therefore the WPA stack on Linux contains of 2 elements:

• Driver. The best are mac8011 drivers (new stack on kernel). ndiswrapper is a workaround of using Windows drivers as the drivers which should work but it may happen that it does not.
• WPA Supplicant. In most cases wpa_supplicant

Usually on top of that you want NetworkManager, connman or something like that.

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PS. Preferably add text instead of screenshots as:

• They are searchable by google/bing/$SEARCH_ENGINE
• They are easier to read
• They will not disapper for whatever reason (say - maintenance break of 3rd party server)