My new BELKIN N Wire4less USB Network Adapter won't install

[Spyderkid]

Hello, my new N Wireless USB Network adapter which I have reacently bought does not seem to install on Ubuntu 10.04, I insert the CD into the computer and it doesn't AutoRun or load up manually please help.

Running: Ubuntu 10.04 with nothing installed on to it at the moment

BY THE WAY I'M A COMPLETE NEWBIE TO LINUX!!

Thanks!!!

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Is the software on the CD for Linux or for Windows?

If it's Windows software it won't run on Linux unless it will work under WINE. Most of the computer hardware that I've ever purchased didn't need anything installed off of any included CDs to work under Linux.

[Spyderkid]

It says that it works on windows 2000, xp, vist, windows 7, Mac and Linux

[oz]

It says that it works on windows 2000, xp, vist, windows 7, Mac and Linux

Right... all of my hardware works with Windows or Linux, but the software CDs that come with the hardware usually don't run on Linux since they usually contain Windows hardware. Occasionally, I will find some bits of Linux software buried deep down into one of the sub-directories, though.

Most Linux drivers are included within the Linux kernel except for some proprietary drivers and a few others.

[Spyderkid]

i've found a program in help called ndisgtk should do the trick i think

[reed9]

ndisgtk is a frontend to ndiswrapper, which wraps around uses windows 98/2000/XP drivers allowing them to work under linux.

There may be a native linux driver for your card, but we need to know the chipset to start troubleshooting.

Please open a terminal (with the device plugged in) and post the output of

lsusb
lsmod

[Spyderkid]

I ran "lsusb" in a terminal and writeing came up shall I post that also...

when I run ndisgtk it says "error: Dependancy is not satisfiable: ndiswrapper"

[Spyderkid]

I've ran the commands lsusb and lsmod heres what happened:

bob@bob-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
bob@bob-desktop:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1           3249  0
nls_cp437               4919  0
vfat                    8933  0
fat                    47767  1 vfat
usb_storage            39425  0
binfmt_misc             6587  1
snd_ens1371            18814  2
fbcon                  35102  71
tileblit                2031  1 fbcon
snd_ac97_codec        100646  1 snd_ens1371
font                    7557  1 fbcon
bitblit                 4707  1 fbcon
snd_cmipci             30437  2
ac97_bus                1002  1 snd_ac97_codec
softcursor              1189  1 bitblit
snd_pcm_oss            35308  0
vga16fb                11385  0
gameport                9089  2 snd_ens1371,snd_cmipci
vgastate                8961  1 vga16fb
snd_mixer_oss          13746  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_opl3_lib            8966  1 snd_cmipci
snd_pcm                70662  4 snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec,snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss
snd_hwdep               5412  1 snd_opl3_lib
snd_seq_dummy           1338  0
snd_mpu401_uart         5617  1 snd_cmipci
snd_seq_oss            26726  0
radeon                674824  3
snd_seq_midi            4557  0
snd_rawmidi            19056  3 snd_ens1371,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
ttm                    49943  1 radeon
snd_seq_midi_event      6003  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
drm_kms_helper         29297  1 radeon
snd_seq                47263  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              19098  3 snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm,snd_seq
drm                   162377  5 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
snd_seq_device          5700  6 snd_opl3_lib,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd                    54148  22 snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec,snd_cmipci,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
snd_page_alloc          7076  1 snd_pcm
ali_agp                 3717  1
i2c_algo_bit            5028  1 radeon
i2c_ali15x3             5050  0
agpgart                31724  3 ttm,drm,ali_agp
ppdev                   5259  0
i2c_ali1535             4725  0
lp                      7028  0
soundcore               6620  1 snd
parport_pc             25962  1
psmouse                63245  0
shpchp                 28820  0
serio_raw               3978  0
parport                32635  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
8139too                18545  0
8139cp                 16186  0
floppy                 53016  0
pata_ali                7932  2
mii                     4381  2 8139too,8139cp

[Segfault]

Please plug it in and do lsusb again.

[Spyderkid]

plug what in?