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Belkin F5D7000UK
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Belkin 54g Wireless Desktop Network Card (F5D7000UK)
- Chipset: Broadcom BCM4306
- pciid: 14e4:4320
- Driver: Standard Belkin driver on their CD. File is BCMWL5.INF
- Chipset: Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)
- pciid: 1814:0201
- Driver: Ndiswrapper 1.1 and Rt2500.INF file from ftp://ftp.a-link.com/wl54h/WL54driver2.2.6.0.zip
- Chipset: Unknown, lspci gives ‘Belkin Unknown device 700f (rev 20)’
- pciid: 1799:700f
- Driver: Ndiswrapper 1.45, driver from CD - blkwgdv7
Info on Broadcom variant
Just added this so that people know that the UK variation can be used. I used the standard belkin driver, but you need to install it to somewhere in windows to extract the relevant sys and inf files. Works like a charm with fedora core 2 and fedora core 3 (though with fc3 you will need to download the kernel source rpm as it doesn’t come with the standard package).
Finally works on my system (the card says “version 1133uk”, Debian woody, kernel 2.4.28, ndiswrapper 0.11, Dell drivers, hand-compiled wirless-tools v27). Here are a few hints if you’re having trouble:
- try different combinations of ndiswrapper version and driver (Belkin, Dell).
- make sure wireless extension version of your wireless-tools matches the one of ndiswrapper (Debian woody wireless-tools were too old, iwconfig wouldn’t work), see http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.htm for more information.
- wireless won’t work if your machine also has another network card connected to the same network.
Works like a charm on this Mandrake 10.1 system here, I was very pleasantly surprised. Just followed the instructions in the docs and it worked! Used the Mandrake configuration tools for wireless network setup (Control Centre → Network & Internet → Manage Connections, select the wireless card).
Info on Ralink variant
Debian stable Sarge (2.4.27-2-386) works a treat. I followed the “InstallDebianSarge” instructions which were great. In the end however, I didn’t need the “Install latest Ndiswrapper” section as version 1.1 comes already available. Also, needed unzip utility (apt-get install unzip). Cheers!.
Info on Unknown variant
Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy), but installed under 7.04 by uninstalling supplied version using instructions on this site, and installing latest version. Didn’t work properly (crashed system) until upgrade, so suspect kernel issues. Now using 2.6.22-14.
