Belkin Wireless 54G LAN PCI card F5D7001 on SuSE 9.3 Professional
I've managed to get this working, as I am a Linux newbie I'd like to share what I did for what its worth. I was a bit nervous whether it would work at all or whether I'd have to return the card and try another brand. Bought the card without looking for any list of supported WLAN cards. The actions listed are all from various Internet pages, no single solution/advice helped for me but a mix of them all. It would have been impossible for me to get it working without all the Linux info "out there". The computer is a no name 400Mhz PII(?). Have no idea about the hardware. Anyways here are my list for making it all work. The access point I use is a NETGEAR WGT624 (108Mbs), shared key 128bits, no broadcast etc etc. Regards Jerker D. How to get Belkin Wireless LAN PCI card F5D7001 to work on SuSE 9.3 Professional. 0. Install PCI card, command "lspci -vt" should list the device 1. Configure the card using YaST. Choose "wireless" as type of card 2. Install ndiswrapper rpm package using YaST2 (CD1) 3. Copy the files bcm43xx.cat.bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys from the install cd (I use /etc/belkinF5D7001/) 4. Execute ndiswrapper -i /etc/belkinF5D7001/bcmwl5a.inf 5. Execute ndiswrapper -m 6. Type ndiswrapper -l, should show --> bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present 7. Execute modprobe ndiswrapper 8. Execute iwconfig to see current config 9. (Yast) - System - /etc/sysconfig editor --> System --> Kernel --> MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT, add "ndiswrapper" 10. Reboot and make sure the network works Notes, - make sure the correct channel is set. - verify correct ESSID - /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-wlan0 contains setting for device wlan0
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