On Sunday 05 March 2006 19:32, Jos van Kan wrote:

michael norman wrote:

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Hi

I have a Belkin 802.11g 54 Mbps Wireless USB Stick, but I'm not sure how to get SUSE 10.0 to recognise it.

Can somebody advise please ?

Take a look at http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/#pid81766

They claim it's compatible.

Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704

Yes, thats why I got one, but I'm not sure how to set it up to work.

On Monday 06 March 2006 10:44, Jos van Kan wrote:

michael norman wrote:

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On Sunday 05 March 2006 19:32, Jos van Kan wrote:

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michael norman wrote:

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Hi

Since I'm not sure what exactly your problems are, it's kinda hard to be of assistance. If Yast(->Hardware) does not see it at all, look if it is shown by

lsusb

If not there's something amiss with the usb setup.

Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704

Jos Yast does see it what I cannot work out is which option to use from Yast > network device to configure it with. Mike

On 3/6/06, Jos van Kan wrote:

michael norman wrote:

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Yast does see it what I cannot work out is which option to use from Yast > network device to configure it with.

My guess would be Yast->Network Devices->Network Cards

Probably it won't be recognized and you have to configure it by hand under Others(not recognized). But they *do* have an entry "USB" there, so I suppose that's the route to go. Since I don't have a USB network device I don't have the possibility to check that hypothesis.

Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704

Also, after plugging in the device, you may check with dmesg if the kernel recognize it. After that, most probably there will be no drivers for it, so you should try with the windows drivers and ndiswrapper. -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

On 3/6/06, Jos van Kan wrote:

Sunny wrote:

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On 3/6/06, Jos van Kan wrote:

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michael norman wrote:

(How to configure a Balkin Wireless USB stick)

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Yast does see it what I cannot work out is which option to use from Yast > network device to configure it with.

My guess would be Yast->Network Devices->Network Cards

Probably it won't be recognized and you have to configure it by hand under Others(not recognized). But they *do* have an entry "USB" there, so I suppose that's the route to go. Since I don't have a USB network device I don't have the possibility to check that hypothesis.

Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704

Also, after plugging in the device, you may check with dmesg if the kernel recognize it. After that, most probably there will be no drivers for it, so you should try with the windows drivers and ndiswrapper.

With all due caveats this appears to be not necessary in this particular instance, because it is genuinely supported by Linux and Suse 10 has the driver.

Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704

This is good to know, as I'm on the market for something like this :) Thanks -- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

Problem here is that Belkin has 3 different versions of the stick, but SuSE 10 just knows about 1 of the versions - the ralink based one. I've actually 2 versions - the original F5D7050 is a PRISM device which I think http://prism54.org/has info on getting it to work. - the second version F5D7050_v2 is as the posts above suggest an ralink device which works perfectly out of the box with SuSE 10. As for the 3rd device F5D7050_v3 - I don't have one, so have don't know what device it's based on - but a google search may help.. If you have it working for windows - the easiest way is to check the program files/belkin directory for the .sys file. That should help you figure out what is needed. Hope that helps -RikD On 07/03/06, michael norman wrote:

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With all due caveats this appears to be not necessary in this

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instance, because it is genuinely supported by Linux and Suse 10 has

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driver.

Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704

This is good to know, as I'm on the market for something like this :)

Thanks

-- -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

I know that SUSE 10 has the driver but I have tried every combination I can think of in Yast and I can't get it recognised as yet.

I'll have to do some more research.

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On Tuesday 07 March 2006 22:25, Jerry Feldman wrote:

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 11:30 am, Rik Dunphy wrote:

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Problem here is that Belkin has 3 different versions of the stick, but SuSE 10 just knows about 1 of the versions - the ralink based one.

In my experience, I wouldn't spend money on most everything Belkin makes, except maybe cables. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

The problem is that the driver is not listed in the selection Yast offers. I can enter it manually and on boot it says its loaded but the device still does not work. I have the equivalent pci card as well and that doesn't work either. I can modprobe both modules (rt2750 and rt2500) successfully so I know the driver is there. Mike