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There are several versions of this card, I specifically have the Version 2, which uses the ADMtek 8211 chipset. If you ever get this model, make sure it's a Version 1, or don't get it. This chipset is a pain to install, especially for an inexperienced user.

I've gotten this card to work with Red Hat. It's fairly painless with the 2.4 kernel and Red Hat, as the drivers are written for Red Hat. A simple manual setup from there.

I have tried using it in Mandrake, but couldn't get the drivers to compile (mainly from my own inexperience).

The drivers from ADMtek can be downloaded here:
http://www.admtek.com.tw/index/index/download.htm

However, I believe they will require some tweaking to compile with the 2.6 kernel, look on the forums for more details on that.

pnh73

PLEASE NOTE ver.3 of this card is based on the RealTek 8180 chipset. Drivers are available from their site, but I have as yet got it to work. There is a lot of info here as how to get it to work.

I will post again when and if I get it to work. :p

pnh73

This product is linux compatable (ver.3 at least).

It required the use of LinuxAnt's Driver Loader (www.linuxant.com). Cost's $20 to buy, but is worth it.

The drivers that were loaded are the ones off the CD (Bel6001.inf and Bel6001.sys in the root of the driver CD). I then had to set the setting using the web interface, manually entering my AP's MAC (in the Network Address box, you need to click on the "Advanced" button), the channel number, the SSID and selecting Infrastructure mode. I then set the IP of the interface (it created eth0 as the interface) in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and manually set the DNS servers I use in /etc/resolv.conf

AFAIK that's all thats required. I confirm the connection quality by using kwifimanager, which is in a kdenetwork-kwifimanager package with Mandrake.

guelzimtr

I installed red hat 9 few days ago and I encountered the following problem:

I can't get my BELKIN F5D6001 VER. 3 to work.

I've tried every solution in this forum but still in vain.

any "master" can help me get this card to work?

thnx

udayse

Download ndiswrapper and compile it and follow instructions. Make sure you dont have any other configurations (wlan0 etc) on your system.

ndiswrapper rocks!

Thanks guys

bbo

guelzimtr,

I got my card working using ndiswrapper and driver from Belkin.com. Let me know if you still have that problem.

cheers
bbo

abalmos

Many people have had success getting there Belkin F5D6001_Ver3 working with Ndiswrapper and the WindowsXP drivers. I was unable to have the same success.

Ndiswrapper lockup up my system every 5 or so seconds for a few seconds. I tried accessing the Internet and pinging my router during the time I was experiencing the lock ups, but I had no connectivity, so I gave up on the ndiswrapper.

I looked into using the rtl8180 driver from the realtek site, but they did not have support for the kernel I am using (2.4.29), and did not want my network interface card restricting what kernel I can use. I did try using the driver they have for the 2.4.20, but It would not load correctly.

I than found the rtl8180-sa2400 project. This solved all of my problems. This driver works perfectly with the F5D6001_Ver3 card and is very easy to set up. The F5D6001_Ver3 was the card used for the main development of that project, so even though at the time of writing the project is only at 0.20, it seems to be very stable, for this card at least. Its documentation is very good and shows you everything that needs to be done. Make sure you load the crc32.o module otherwise the ieee80211_crypt-r8180 and ieee80211_crypt_wep-r8180 modules will not load though.

You can get to the rtl8180-sa2400 project at: http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/

- Andrew