How to install wireless driver in Ubuntu 14.04 without internet

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My PC has a wireless card that works in Windows fine. It does not work in Ubuntu, neither does my ethernet. I have not been able to find a solution that works yet... I am still a massive amateur with Linux, so any suggestions or any thing will help.
 
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My wireless card is recongnized by Ubuntu, because it list available networks (I can't connect to any of them which I can on Windows). Is this a driver issue? Or something else?
 
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I found a USB wifi adapter that works for now, so I have internet but still no internet thru Ethernet or the wireless card.
 
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Yah, the issue, IIRC, is that many wifi adapters use NDIS, which is an interface specification. It apparently goes WAY back to Win 3.1 (!)...and having seen that, mmm. I remember, vaguely, trying to get network cards to work way back when. But since it's a Windows thing, Linux doesn't support it out of the box.

Go to the web page I linked to...since you can, now. Scroll down, and you'll see a table of manufacturers and interfaces. Click on your card's manufacturer, and you should get a list of all its cards/adapters. With any luck, you'll see comments/advice on how to set it up. And even just reviewing the comments (and the info throughout those pages) is informative.

If you do need to install the NDIS wrapper, it's available in the software center...just search for 'ndis.'
 
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