Belkin Wireless G Notebook Card

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Belkin Wireless G Notebook Card
started by: MDG

Posted by MDG on Sep. 30 2006,03:45

Hi! Am trying to setup my Belkin Wireless G Notebook Card.

IBM Thinkpad 310ED
166 MHz
2Gig hard drive
32 Mb Ram
Frugal install of DSL 2.3

Belkin Wireless G card F5D7010 (Version 6000 <- yes 6000)

lspci - b
0000:01:00.0 Network controlled: RaLink: Unknown deive 0301

lspci -n
0000:01:00.0 0280: 1814:0301

On boot, card is listed as "NOT PRESENT", even though it physically is.

I've unsuccessfully "installed" (or so I thought) a couple of wrong drivers and need pointers on cleaning that up, as well as getting the card recognized and the correct driver.

Would appreciate any and all tips you have.

Thanks!

MDG

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 30 2006,04:39

google shows: < http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/Ralink >

Haven't heard of anyone using rt61 driver in DSL yet though. Probably should try ndiswrapper first anyhow.

Posted by MDG on Sep. 30 2006,16:23

^thehatsrule^,
Thanks for pointing toward the right driver for my cards chipset - I found the rt61.inf in the Belkin directory and copied that to a CD.

I think I have other problems with setup than just the wrong .inf.

Lets see what happens now

MDG

Posted by MDG on Sep. 30 2006,17:09

I've installed the rt61.inf driver, but:

ndiswrapper -l
rt61 hardware present

There are no lights lit on this card, though both the power and activity lights "blink" when the laptop is booted.

Anyone have any ideas?

MDG

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 30 2006,22:00

What did you do to set it up?

Quote from roberts:

Quote

$ sudo pump -i wlan0

The typical sequence of commands as root are:

# ndiswrapper -i your_cards.inf
# modprobe ndiswrapper
# iwconfig wlan0 key 99:99:99:99.... essid your_ssid_here
# pump -i wlan0

Or try the ndiswrapper GUI from the DSLpanel

Posted by MDG on Oct. 01 2006,01:05

I have problems with iwconfig - something about wlan0 interface. I think I have an irq problem. Plus, I could never get synaptic to work - it would break X.

I would probably have better luck with a regular HD install? If so, am waiting for a memory card adapter as I have no USB (old laptop) so I can backup my settings etc.

I feel like I'm so close, yet so far.

MDG

Posted by Wittfella on Oct. 06 2006,02:37

G'Day,

Same problems with RT61 card. Using driver off the cdrom, ndiswrapper installs and I get "hardware present" so I thought it was looking good.

But I can't set the essid with iwconfig. Most of the other settings work ok, key, mode etc., just can't get it to set essid. Apparently it is known that it will not work with ndiswrapper at this stage.

RaLink has a native linux driver for RT61, if anyone can compile this and try it that would be great. I tried to but don't now enough about compiling to get it to work.

Cheers,
Wittfella

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 06 2006,19:56

MDG:
What's the exact error?. Also, you can use apt in the command-line instead of synaptic.

Regular (non-frugal) HD installs don't require for you to backup, but I recommend using a frugal installation.

Wittfella:
Try starting with the gcc* packages in myDSL if you want to try compiling.

Posted by Wittfella on Oct. 07 2006,08:05

G'Day,

Finally got it to compile! I followed the readme that comes with the source. I got down to the "make config" and it would give errors. Finally found that I had to "dos2unix" the "Configure" file and then it works.

Now I can load the rt61.o module, but whenever I do anything with iwconfig or ifconfig it locks up the pc. Still trying...

Cheers,
Wittfella