In order to avoid such a headache I just bought a WiFi PCIe card (a tp-link ac1900. I had to turn it of and on again! such a pain And when I restart or put my pc on sleep the wifi connection was never automatic. Internet gives 1000 different solution and only some of them may work (after spending hours and hours). After each kernel update it wan't working and i had to use a lot of complicated commands to make it work.

I just want to share my experience (especially for users who do not have a usb wifi dongle and want to buy one). I am convinced that it will help a lot of users. Please do not delete this post even if its not an answer.

~/'.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/NETGEAR' After running setup.exe you'll find the zip package in: Note: You only need wine for extracting the WNA3100.zip package from the setup.exe file from the Netgear site. The exptracted WNA3100 folder is available at: The only thing you need from the download package is the WNA3100 folder. You can download the driver from NetGear Site: WNA3100 Drivers. (Add the ndiswrapper modules to the boot configuration with:) Navigate to where you saved the driver (look at the Download Windows Netgear Drivers section below): $ sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-source ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 $ sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-dkms ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common You can add Support for the Netgear N-300/ WNA3100 USB Adapter by installing the ndiswrapper and loading the Windows network driver.

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