The F5D7050 is working well for me.

I'm using ndiswrapper with the drivers supplied by Belkin.

The windows drivers seem to need a larger stack size then is typically compiled in most kernels. I compiled mine with both 4K and 8K stack sizes, and neither worked. However, after downloading a kernel patch to increase the stack size to 16K (from linuxant: http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/downloads-patches.php) and recompiling my kernel, the windows driver and ndiswrapper seem to work fine.

I have had two other issues. The first is that this device did not seem to work in a USB 2.0 port, although I think that this might be a problem in the kernel USB drivers (?). Loading ndiswrapper with the device plugged into a USB 2.0 port threw something into an infinite loop. However, it seems to work fine in a USB 1.1 port...

Also, for some reason, inspite of having disabled IPv6 for the adapter in Fedora's network tool, DNS look-ups were still being performed using IPv6, and it seems that the DNS server I was talking to wouldn't respond to IPv6 requests. Consequently, my machine would send two DNS requests in IPv6 (each taking about 10 seconds before timeing out), and failing that would finally send one in IPv4. This was causing a 20+ second latency in all DNS look-ups. Disabling IPv6 completely solved this problem (I added the line "alias net-pf-10 off" to my modprobe.conf) This problem may or may not be related to the driver or not...

I started off trying the LinuxAnt DriverLoader for this, but it didn't work. The adapter would detect my network, but couldn't connect to the internet. So I got rid of it.

Then I installed NdisWrapper using the supplied Belkin driver off the CD, rebooted, setup the adapter in the network settings, then restarted again, and boom. It works. Full signal, full speed ahead.

I also did not have to do anything to my kernel as some have had to do. I'm not sure why, but it wasn't necessary for me. Although I did try, but the package I downloaded was missing dependencies (naturally), which I couldn't download on that machine until I had the adapter working! So I just went ahead with ndiswrapper and it works.

This was initially set up using ndiswrapper1.2 packaged with Suse10 with zero installation problems. However, I had on-going problems with the supplied Belkin driver under both Windows and Linux.

Switching to an rt2500usb driver available from the Ralink support site (2500USB_D-2.0.3.0) fixed all the problems under both Windows and Linux. I am now running the Ralink driver with ndiswrapper1.7, with all configuration performed through YAST. I regularly have 100% signal, even when well removed from the access point.

NOTE: To use the Ralink driver, add the following line into rt2500usb.inf under "[Ralink];Displayname":
%Ralink.DeviceDesc% = RALINK.ndi, USB\VID_050d&PID_7050

i just installed opensuse with it connected and it seemed to pick it up and install the drivers for me.... so pretty good!

F5D7050 version 4 uses the zd1211rw driver, included in the kernel since version 2.6.18, but the device ID for this specific device has been included in the driver since kernel 2.6.20

I'm using the hardware version 3

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worked great once I figured out the configuration... first time setting up wireless in linux...



driver was auto detected as the rt73usb... this is bad... you actually need the rt73 which is available as a daily tarbal... notice rt73 and rt73usb are different! you will need to add rt73usb and rt2x00usb to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file and compile to rt73 module!

but something I noticed... XP and rt73usb detected one of my networks at around 75%... rt73 detects it at over 90%...

Hope this thread is still open. I have an old emachine box, 600mgh with 10 gig drive, NOT currently hooked up to internet, though I have internet access with two other XP computers. Have installed Opensuse 10.3, and have tried to get a Trendnet 424ub USB drive working with ndiswrapper, and now a Belkin FD57050 Version 5000 working with Linuxant, and never have gotten either USB device recognized.
Are you saying that there are other drivers other than those that came with the CD, that will work, like rt73usb??? For version 5000 (Belkin) the drivers are blkwgu.inf and blkwgu.sys. Very frustrated, love Linux, want to get it online. Thanks for any help. ht in Kansas

I have used the Belkin Wireless G USB Adapter version 4000 with Fedora 6,7 and currently with Fedora 8. One thing to pay attention to is the version number on the box as that is an indicator of the chipset/driver. I have several version 4000 and they all work with the "zd1211rw" driver "out of the box" with Fedora.

I have also had an opportunity to test a Belkin Wireless G + MIMO USB Adapter version 4000 and it uses the "rt73usb" driver and also worked out of the box on Fedora 8.

Version 5000 is actually the RTL8187B chipset from Realtek. I have a version of the driver that will recognize this particular USB device. Get it here: http://steveth45.net/blog/?p=67. I'm using it to write this message.