New to Linux, installed latest fedora having issues with Belkin wireless nic.

[ShaneBland]

Okay hopefully someone can point me in the right direction here. I have a very limited linux skill set so the more detail the better!!!

I have a homebuilt machine that I have just installed the latest fedora core onto. I downloaded the DVD iso and installed it on a dedicated 250GB SATA drive. I went along with the default options during the install and with the exception of the wireless card everything seems to be working ok.

The issue I am having is getting my Belkin wireless card to work. I have a Belkin F5D7000 installed on the system. I have read through numerous posts using ndiswrapper but I have yet to find any post detailed enough to explain to me what I need to do step by step or if I even need to use ndiswrapper.

Can anyone help me out, I would be forever grateful.

Thanks
~Shane

[MikeTbob]

check this thread to see which chipset you have and post the output back here for further help.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...-pci-card.html

[ShaneBland]

Here is the output of /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82P965/G965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV410 [Radeon X700 Pro (PCIE)]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV410 [Radeon X700 Pro (PCIE)] Secondary
03:00.0 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
04:01.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
04:01.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy Game Port (rev 04)
04:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)

Here is the output if /sbin/lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 8086:29a0 (rev 02)
00:01.0 0604: 8086:29a1 (rev 02)
00:1a.0 0c03: 8086:2834 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 0c03: 8086:2835 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 0c03: 8086:283a (rev 02)
00:1c.0 0604: 8086:283f (rev 02)
00:1c.3 0604: 8086:2845 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 0c03: 8086:2830 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 0c03: 8086:2831 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 0c03: 8086:2832 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 0c03: 8086:2836 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 0604: 8086:244e (rev f2)
00:1f.0 0601: 8086:2810 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 0101: 8086:2820 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 0c05: 8086:283e (rev 02)
00:1f.5 0101: 8086:2825 (rev 02)
01:00.0 0300: 1002:5e4b
01:00.1 0380: 1002:5e6b
03:00.0 0101: 197b:2363 (rev 02)
03:00.1 0101: 197b:2363 (rev 02)
04:00.0 0200: 168c:001a (rev 01)
04:01.0 0401: 1102:0004 (rev 04)
04:01.1 0980: 1102:7003 (rev 04)
04:01.2 0c00: 1102:4001 (rev 04)

Is that what is needed?

I can understand the output of the 1st command, but what is the output of lspci -n showing?

Thanks
~Shane

[MikeTbob]

lscpi -n shows the numeric PCI ID. it's a number used to keep track of vendors who supply chipsets.
in your case, you appear to have a MADWifi chipset.
Give MADWifi a test and see if you can get it working.

[ShaneBland]

so I was able to install a network card used a cross over cable to my laptop running windows to get a live internet connection and downloaded madwifi with the following command.

yum install madwifi madwifi-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6

that went through downloaded evertything and installed it I am assuming. I did not receive any errors in this process. I still do not see a wireless card in the network hardware or devices. According to the madwifi help what I did should not have required anymore work on my part.

Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Thanks
~Shane

[MikeTbob]

make sure the ath_pci module is loaded

lsmod | grep ath

Should look similar to this

ath_pci 69148 0
ath_rate_sample 17544 1 ath_pci
wlan 124700 4 wlan_wep,ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
ath_hal 150480 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample

if thats good then have a look at

dmesg

look for anything ath related.
try this also

service network restart

And post the output of

ifconfig

[namelessone]

Let's just make it simple. Open up a terminal and type as root

modprobe ath_pci

then post the output of typing

ifconfig