[miocene]

Hey,
I've just succesfully installed Xubuntu 8 on my old PIII 900 laptop.
All is working well and I would now like to get some internet going on it.
I need an idiot's guide to install my Belkin 54g PC card on the laptop as I have next to zero experience with linux. I don't have the driver cd anymore either which could prove tricky but I'm hoping some are available on the internet.
Thanks in advance for any help...

[Segfault]

As a general rule knowing the brand name doesn't help a bit. Hardware manufacturers often change the design of their devices and carry on selling under same brand/model name for commercial purposes.
Tell us what chip is inside and we can tell you how to make it work. Output of lspci or relevant snippet from /var/log/messages will tell you what piece of hardware you have there. Also, is this [Mini]PCI, PCMCIA or USB device?

[miocene]

I believe its a Broadcom chipset with a PCMCIA connection.
The Belkin part no. is f5d7010xx although I think Belkin have released an updated one but probs with the same chipset.

this is an image of it


That's all the info I can give I'm afraid, hope its enough.
cheers


edit: oh and at the moment Xubuntu does nothing when I plug it in - ie it is not recognised, even as an unknown device (the leds do not even light up)

[Segfault]

Hm. Open a terminal and type:

sudo tail /var/log/messages

Then plug the card in and see what appears in log.

[miocene]

OK done it
here is what it said:

Jul 21 04:01:45 ubuntu kernel: [ 152.405145] pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
Jul 21 04:01:45 ubuntu kernel: [ 152.998061] PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Jul 21 04:01:45 ubuntu kernel: [ 152.999340] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
Jul 21 04:01:45 ubuntu kernel: [ 153.025058] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:00.0
Jul 21 04:01:46 ubuntu kernel: [ 153.780185] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
Jul 21 04:01:48 ubuntu kernel: [ 155.465402] input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input8
Jul 21 04:01:51 ubuntu kernel: [ 158.234956] input: b43-phy0 as /devices/virtual/input/input9



I do hope this is in some way useful

[Segfault]

Here's a guide to make it work, you need to load firmware:
b43 - Linux Wireless

[Dapper Dan]

This might be of assistance. Link

[miocene]

wow looks complicated but I'll give it a go at some point.
Thanks for the help - I'll prob need more it a while..

[miocene]

Ok I'm trying to use the method from Dapper Dan's link but I'm stuck at the first hurdle...

The code says

sudo rmmod bcm43xx

I have downloaded the drivers but what do I do with them and where should they be to install them? The driver files are bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys
Please take into account that I am a complete noob and have never worked with linux before..

cheers

[miocene]

sorry can i bump this? -
still not sure how to install this driver...
thanks