Belkin 802.11g Wireless G USB Network Adapter - Problem

[Tim_Wright]

I found this guide that my friend wrote, its helped me sort out a few of my problems.

http://www.linuxforums.org/network/w...and_linux.html

Hope it helps you

Anyway, I got ndiswrapper installed and my rt73.inf driver. Im now working on getting it to work because there is still no status light!

Tim

[psycosven]

Hey Everyone,
a little over a year ago I tried getting ndiswrapper to work in Fedora 4 x64. I was only ever able to find 1 instance of a 64bit driver for a Belkin USB wireless internet device, that never came close to working. I gave up trying to work it out (school and such took up too much time). I've forgotten what knowledge I had gained now, but I want to try again. I've installed Fedora 6 x64 and the only item that is not working for me is my Belkin USB. I figure that the Ndiswrapper might work out, but I would really like to try using the drivers released by Ralink first. The Drivers can be found here:

http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Hom...ort/Linux.html

The Drivers that I would be looking to use would be for the RT2500USB. Since I am new to this again, I was just wondering how I would go about getting these drivers working. If anyone knows of a good user manual for Fedora that I could download, that would be greatly appreciated too.

I also am hoping that this link may help some other people in the forums.

[martinfromdublin]

Hi Tim,

That .inf file should be BLKWGU.inf. MBR is fixed, I've installed Mandriva 2007 as it has it's own wireless wizard but I still get the same result as I do in Xandros 4, once you run ndiswrapper with that .inf file you get a system crash.

The only distro that runs it is Knoppix 5.1.1 and that still won't install to my hard drive, despite me using a 10 gig partition it says there's not enough space, there must be a bug somewhere in either that distro or my copy of it.

Psycosven, the info I've given Tim applies to you too as in what file to load.

Martin

[Tim_Wright]

Hi Martin,

I've actually had success...in a way with the rt73 drivers. Under ubuntu they install fine and the hardware shows up ok but I can't get a connection. There are 3 files: rt73.inf, rt73.sys, rt73.cat and the rt73.cat is tripping it up I think.

Where did you get the BLKWGU.inf drivers from? I just extracted the rt73's from the driver exe on the Belkin website.

Wishing you all the best,
Tim

[martinfromdublin]

Hi Tim,

Those files are on the CD that comes with the device and they work in Knoppix, so I know they're the right ones.

Still working on my own system, will post if I have good news.

Martin

[Tim_Wright]

Hi Martin,

Dad has the CD for the adaptor locked up so I can't get access to it I did find this link which has some useful information:

http://opensource.bureau-cornavin.com/belkin/index.html

Will give you a shout with the results of trying it on Ubuntu

Tim

[MikeTbob]

Have you guys actually compiled ndiswrapper yourselves?
Did anyone see this?

Before you load the module, DO NOT FORGET to type depmod -a. If there is no error, continue.

Also another thing to do, download and install usbutils for your distro, then issue this command to positively ID your chipset.
lsusb

Belkin uses a ton of different chipsets, and knowing the right one could make a world of difference.

[Tim_Wright]

Hi Mike,

Thanks very much for taking the time to leave the post but would you mind going into a little bit more detail? Its just that Linux is sort of new to me and I'm a little bit disorientated :S (but I am in the process of reading as much documentation as possible lol)

Much appreciated,
Tim

[MikeTbob]

Hi Mike,

Thanks very much for taking the time to leave the post but would you mind going into a little bit more detail? Its just that Linux is sort of new to me and I'm a little bit disorientated :S (but I am in the process of reading as much documentation as possible lol)

Much appreciated,
Tim

The above post from me, is quoting the ndiswrapper wiki page.
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...on#Load_module

depmod -a

before you modprobe.
And about lsusb, It's just a package of files for USB use. Instead of using

/sbin/lspci

to identify your chipset, after installing usbutils,if it isn't already installed, you would use this command to identify your chipset

lsusb

I am sure whichever distro you are currently using has usbutils for download on their mirrors.

[Tim_Wright]

Thanks for taking the time to explain that Mike. I'll keep trying to get my adapter working

Tim