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zareous · 11-19-2004, 12:44 AM

Had a lot of trouble finding a driver that worked. Most of them I could get installed correctly and I could ping the wireless interface, but I couldn't ping anyone else.

I used ndiswrapper -0.11 (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/) and the driver I used a got from here: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R81433.EXE (use bcmwl5a.inf in directory AR). I couldn't seem to get the driver included on the CD to work. It appear to do what I mentioned above, it almost seemed like there was no rf being transmitted by the card.

lcpci -v displayed the card I got working as Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03) chipset.

PCfixinman2025 · 03-04-2005, 09:24 AM

I used ndiswrapper -0.11 same as the other the other whom made a post(http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/) and the the same driver, although I found it on the Dell site, looking there first, as the one on the CD wouldn't work for me as well...
Dell Inspiron 5150 Notebook

lcpci -v also did display my Wifi card when working(only works when you atttempt to access the internet) otherwise, you would think it was off!

Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03) chipset.

I would say there was little to no trouble getting this card to work, with 4 other Distro's I tried

Connectiva 10
Slackware 10
FC 3
Knoppix 3.6 Live CD(copied to HDD so now permenant)

all that need a swap, use the same one !!!

Regards,

PCfixinman

Napalm Llama · 04-17-2005, 11:33 AM

I'm giving this a 10 just to help the displayed average reflect this card's usefulness.

I would probably give this a 7 otherwise - if only because it has no native Linux driver.

However, I'm now happily using it with ndiswrapper 1.1, loaded up with the Windows driver included on the CD.
Be sure to read all of the appropriate instructions in the ndiswrapper wiki.
At their instruction, I'm using the special kernel (free) from Linuxant - I can't guaruntee this card'll work without it.

128-bit WEP encryption is handled no problem, although I haven't tried it with ndiswrapper's WPA extension yet.

I'm using a shell script to load it up, although as I'm still a bit of a newbie to FC3, I haven't managed to make this run automatically at boot time yet.

And because I'm such a nice guy, you can have my shell script (with all the personal bits removed) right here!

Code:

#!/bin/sh
echo
echo "*** Welcome to the YellowMackerel Wireless Loader! ***"
echo
echo "Starting your Wireless Internet Card..."
modprobe ndiswrapper
echo
echo "Setting your Network ID..."
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid NETWORK_ESSID_HERE
echo
echo "Setting your Network Passcode..."
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 key restricted HEX_128-BIT_WEP_CODE_HERE
echo
echo "*** Your Wireless Internet Card is now fully configured! ***"
echo
echo "Now logging in to the network, please stand by..."
echo
/sbin/dhclient wlan0
echo
echo
echo "Your Internet is now up and running!"
echo "Have a nice day!"

Obviously you're going to have to change the references to wlan0 to something else, if that's not what your wireless card is called on your system.
I don't guaruntee the script'll work with anything other than FC3, because I've not tested it, but I don't see why it wouldn't (with maybe some slight tweaking)

carlywarly · 05-20-2005, 05:05 PM

Autodetected and native linux drivers used (no ndiswrapper).
Perfectly stable, too - impressive.

vinbob · 06-27-2005, 03:44 PM

After my last Wi-Fi card bit the dust, I reluctantly went to PC World (UK) to get another.
After looking here for suggestions I went and got this 54Mb Belkin model (marked F5D7000uk) priced £19.99.

Plugged it in, booted up SuSE 9.3 which autodetected it as a 'Belkin Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card'. SuSE prompted me to configure it in Yast and once I'd specified my SSID and WEP key, I was back on the network immediately.

It's been connected for the past day with no interruptions.

Bargain!

friver01 · 06-28-2005, 02:47 PM

When installing Mandriva 2005 LE, it tried to use a linux driver but somehow that failed, so I went to Mandrake Control Center to set up a new network interface but this time I selected NDISWRAPPER. Then it prompted me for the WIndows driver path and I navigated to the CDROM and selected the .INI file from the drivers folder and voila! It's working perfectly fine.

I have it configured to 54 Mbps and 64 bit encryption

PS: I gave it 9 on compatibility for not having a manufacturers linux driver

greySquirrel · 07-10-2005, 08:54 PM

lspci revealed this card to be Ralink rt2500. Card was purchased a couple weeks back, about the 7th July. Anyway the driver in mandrake 2005 LE works great (in ad-hoc mode), as does the compiled source rt2500 on sourceforge.

All in all a great card for the price and easy to set up.

****UPDATE****

because i have a different chipset to some i'll give more info.

under the box it says...version 3000uk. *p57463uk. part # f5d7000uk....

I've used it alot more and i'm even more impressed

Nylex · 08-15-2005, 08:39 AM

I'm using NdisWrapper 1.1 and the RaLink drivers that I got from here. It was easy to install, following instructions from the wiki here. There's also a Slackware tutorial on LQ, that's for another card but the instructions are the same and it works. This is it. I'm very happy :D.

Edit: lspci shows the PCI ID as 1814:0201 for my card.

RedShirt · 10-23-2005, 12:53 PM

SuSE 10 recognized this card out of the box, after adding SSID and my WEP password, it worked immediately. kwifimanager works well with it as well. Very nice card, very inexpensive, and no install hiccups at all. No drivers nessecary, SuSE 10's default wireless options install the Ralink chipset drivers.

akshunj · 10-29-2005, 05:14 PM

rev.4 of this card is using the bcm4318 chipset. No gpl drivers that I know of. As a sidenote, I was REALLY hoping to get the one with the rt2500 chipset since that driver IS GPL'd and it's pretty good. :-(

Anyway, ndiswrapper works flawlessly. Get the driver from here. It is bcmwl5a.inf.

ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3020_5020/driver/

sparton · 01-23-2006, 04:12 PM

This card detected right away no extra configuration needed. It even worked great just running from the live cd before installation.

nhouseman85 · 01-29-2006, 02:07 PM

I have had nothing but trouble with this device since i bought it. #1 - it didn't work in windowze98, so i was a little worried when i tried to set it up in linux. It worked flawlessly in Knoppix 3.9, so i set out to get it to work in slack. It was a pain in the ass to set up, and it still isn't quite right. My biggest complaint is that iwconfig will not establish the values i want on the card. ie: i want to set the rate, and acces point...etc...but it refuse to change the values. (any help would be great, i have a thread started here)
I am using ndiswrapper, and the atheros driver 5211 (despite the card being a 5212...i can't find that driver)

pci id is: 168c:0013 (rev 01)

If you are a complete noob, do not get this card. If you have some experience... take a shot at it. When it does work it is extremely quick!

DrEwMoNeY · 02-18-2006, 02:55 AM

This is for Belkin F5D7000 v4000 (there is a sticker on the bottom of the box that clearly says 4000). There were other boxes of Belkin F5D7000 that did not have a version number and was in the same box (same girl in same pose had different color shirt on box). I had to use ndiswrapper to get it to work, but it only took 4 commands (it would have only taken 2, except for encryption). I have used this on other Linux distributions, including SUSE 10.0 and newer, Mandriva 2005 and newer, Knoppix, and about a dozen other live cds. Some info you might find useful:

lspci:

00:0c.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02)

Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4318 (rev 02)

console commands:

1) ndiswrapper -l /path_to_driver/bcmwl5.inf

2) modprobe ndiswrapper

3) iwconfig wlan0 key restricted XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

4) dhcpcd wlan0

If I turn encryption off, I'm on the net after step 2. Almost forgot, I'm using it with Linksys WRT54G router.

http://slax.linux-live.org/

njdube · 03-31-2006, 01:30 AM

The only issue I have is it seems not to be working at it's full potential in SUSE 10. I use the card on Windows XP and SUSE 10. On SUSE 10 it the green LED on the back is very very dim and I get a piss pore signal. So it's like putting a 90 year old in a sports card. I'm using the card as I write this. But the signal is at 29% but when I use the card in Windows XP I get around 80 to 90% signal strength.

PainInTheAssReg · 09-28-2006, 03:38 PM

they've taken the RT61 driver out of Suse 10.1 (well they would, it was useful :-).

So I had to follow the instruction at the SUSE wike to install the driver (fortunately I had installed both gcc and the kerfnel source, when I put SUSE 10.1 on my PC , as they're both needed). The link is -
http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Setting_up_RT61_Wireless_Cards

The card I bought from Dixons (now Currys digital) in the UK. The box has the part number F5D7000uk on the bottom, nexst to the large bar-code. And ver.6000uk as the version number (in a rectangle near the part number).

RetepNamenots · 10-18-2006, 06:36 AM

I'm a complete newbie at Linux, but honestly, setting up this card was so much easier than expected (after reading some of the comments here).

Setup with Linuxant, but I will try with ndiswrapper after the 30-day trial has ended. Note: I had to restart the computer to get it to accept my WEP key. (Data entered with Yast).

kg4ysy · 12-19-2006, 10:53 PM

non-native

make sure 4k stacks are disabled in the kernel before using. I had some serious kernel panics with 4k stacks.