Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.8.x 2.6.14.1
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Distribution:
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Debian Stable/Testing/Unstable
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I tested the F5D6020 ver 3 adapter on a Compaq Presario 1926 Laptop, both with Debian Stable and Unstable. I cannot imagine why it should not run on testing.
Get the latest drivers from realtek here : http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/. Compile ndiswrapper >= 1.5 (did NOT work for me with other versions of ndiswrapper).
Doing ndiswrapper -l should give you driver present, but no hardware present. Go into /etc/ndiswrapper/'driver name here' and rename the shortest named .conf file according to lspci output. For me that meant renaming it 1799:6020.5.conf.
Ndiswrapper -l now shows driver AND hardware present.
Type modprobe ndiswrapper and the LED should go on, for me, iwconfig even showed all correct without any manual config. If your router doesn't broadcast ESSID you might have to iwconfig wlan0 ESSID and so on.
This works perfectly, no need for payed services as driverloader etc.
Hope someone benefits from this :)
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