Belkin Wireless G Plus Desktop Card F5D7001 Installed in SuSE 10.1
I am trying to get my Belkin Wireless G Plus Desktop Card F5D7001 installed in SuSE 10.1 and I have no idea where to start. It is not being detected, though it is in a PCI slot in my Dell PowerEdge. -- Cheers, wmeler
I am trying to get my Belkin Wireless G Plus Desktop Card F5D7001 installed in SuSE 10.1 and I have no idea where to start. It is not being detected, though it is in a PCI slot in my Dell PowerEdge. Suse 10 or 10.1? Are you new to linux... to Suse.... ? Has the card ever worked before....linux? which version? Look dmesg output for pci messages that might give you clues to hardware
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 20:21, wmeler wrote: problems at bootup. Another place to look for this after boot is the F10 console. Another thing you can do is press the esc key on bootup and watch the messages fly by... look for pci related errors... driver errors, etc. My WG311T works with Suse 10 out-of-box... however, my WG311v3 does not... and I need to use the ndiswrapper for the time being to get it to work... you may be forced to do the same. The weakness in linux hardware right now is wireless drivers. Sad but too true. -- Kind regards, M Harris <><
10.1 -- and no, I've used SuSE since 8.1
The card hasn't worked before in Linux, and not tried it in Windows.
How do I install and use ndiswrapper? Recommended how-to location?
Thanks,
wmeler
On 9/19/06, M Harris
I am trying to get my Belkin Wireless G Plus Desktop Card F5D7001 installed in SuSE 10.1 and I have no idea where to start. It is not being detected, though it is in a PCI slot in my Dell PowerEdge. Suse 10 or 10.1? Are you new to linux... to Suse.... ? Has the card ever worked before....linux? which version? Look dmesg output for pci messages that might give you clues to hardware
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 20:21, wmeler wrote: problems at bootup. Another place to look for this after boot is the F10 console. Another thing you can do is press the esc key on bootup and watch the messages fly by... look for pci related errors... driver errors, etc. My WG311T works with Suse 10 out-of-box... however, my WG311v3 does not... and I need to use the ndiswrapper for the time being to get it to work... you may be forced to do the same. The weakness in linux hardware right now is wireless drivers. Sad but too true.
-- Kind regards,
M Harris <><
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-- Cheers, wmeler
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 21:55, wmeler wrote:
How do I install and use ndiswrapper? Recommended how-to location? Well, first, you need to find W2000 or XP drivers for your card. There are at least two files you will need... the driver.sys file and the driver.inf file.
http://en.opensuse.org/Ndiswrapper_howto Try the above link... or google for ndiswrapper howto There are several good howto sites... maybe one specific for your card... google it. The trouble sometimes is finding a W2000 or XP driver that will work with ndiswrapper.... for instance the drivers that came on the cd for the WG311v3 for XP do not work with ndiswrapper... crashes the kernel... rats. Sooo, I had to do some snooping around the world... I finally found a driver that works well... -- Kind regards, M Harris <><
Thanks! I have the WinXP driver...it is working perfectly in XP... Where do I get the 10.1 rpm for ndiswrapper? been looking around to no avail. -- Cheers, wmeler
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:21:49PM -0400, wmeler wrote:
I am trying to get my Belkin Wireless G Plus Desktop Card F5D7001 installed in SuSE 10.1 and I have no idea where to start. It is not being detected, though it is in a PCI slot in my Dell PowerEdge.
Not sure if this helps, but I have a Belkin F5D7010 PCI card working under Suse9.2 on my laptop using the driver available from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com. Having said that that, I don't actaully use it outside of the home. Rgds, -- Mike Bishop 907/495-5737 mbishop@mtaonline.net Willow, Alaska
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