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Belkin F5D6020 ver 3
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2 20405 11-16-2005
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100% of reviewers $25.00 7.5



Description: Cardbus (32 bit PCMCIA) WiFi card.
Works with realtek driver and driverloader if
.ini file is edited to use Belkin's vendor/product code.
Keywords: Cardbus 802.11b WiFi Network Card
/sbin/lspci output: 0000:02:00.0 Class 0200: 1799:6020 (rev 20)
Chipset: RealTek
Connection Type: cardbus


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Old 08-16-2004, 10:13 AM   #1
nickI-S
 
Registered: Aug 2004
Distribution: SuSE 5.4 to 9.2, RedHat 7.3
Posts: 57

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $25.00 | Rating: 5

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.5-7.104-default
Distribution: SuSE9.1



Used driverloader from http://www.linuxant.com./driverloader/
used SuSE 9.1 RPM from their site.
and
RealTek driver from
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/
Had to edit .ini file to match vendor/product code of Belkin
version (copied values from bel6020.ini from CDROM that came with
card).
The belkin driver (bel6020.sys on CDROM) did not work.

Same editted .inf file works with ndiswrapper-0.10

(Did not with work with ndiswrapper-0.8 that may have been as
it was fighting with driverloader?)
 
Old 11-16-2005, 08:55 PM   #2
crispyleif
 
Registered: Mar 2005
Distribution: Debian and the likes
Posts: 190

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8.x 2.6.14.1
Distribution: Debian Stable/Testing/Unstable


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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