Networking :: Setting up a Belkin FSD7000 wireless 802.11g card

G'Day all,

I just recently got a RT2500 card working, and like you guys it was quite frustrating.

The key is to get the exact driver, and then it works no problems.  That driver list on ndiswrapper site has quite a few RT2500 cards, and they all look like they should work, but if you look closely they have different version numbers etc.

You need to get the one that matches your card exectly.

Try 'lspci' and look at the description of your card. It will be RT2500 rev3, or rev2 or something.  It will also show some numbers (i don't exactly know what they are, I think they are some sort of pci identification) that look something like "1814:0301".

Go to the ndiswrapper driver list and look for an exact match. Once I got the driver that matched these numbers it worked perfectly.

When you look at "ndiswrapper -l", if you don't see the "hardware present" it won't work.  When you see this you should be good to go.

Just another quick tip that gave me much angst, all the "How to's" said that when you issue "modprobe ndsiwrapper" the green light on the card should come on.  Mine didn't so I spent much time thinking it still wasn't working. iwconfig seems to default to "Security: Restricted", but in my router I use "Open" security.  As soon as I changed it to "Open", it associated with the router and the green light came on. (and a joyous moment it was too )

Cheers,
Wittfella