I have a Belkin Pre-N router and a Belkin F5D8010 Pre-N pc-card adapter. My wireless network works great under Windows, but I have been unable to get the card recognized under Linux. I have installed both the SimplyMEPIS and Ubuntu distributions, with the same result. Since I am a complete newbie, I'm not wed to any particular dist. Has anyone out there been able to get this card to work with any Linux distribution? If so, how did you do it?

I am no pro at this but I believe you need to use a ndiswrapper. Check out the articles here under wireless networking and see if they won't help. http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking

I would also try lspci to see what chipset is in the card.. you might be surprised and find there is actually a driver for that card. But you will never know until you see what chipset is on it..

N is pretty new so ndiswrapper may be your only game, but it's still worth knowing what you actually have.

I realize this advice is too late but here goes!

1. Don't buy Belkin -ever

2. Don't double post

That said, I've had some problems with my wireless card too, which is a Linksys (Cisco). The card got detected and after I ripped the microcode it work -sort off.

Being sick and tired of them problems, I invested in a small but reliable device called a Wireless Bridge. You can pick one up from Linksys for £50 on amazon

I configured this baby and ever since it has been working like a charm and the added benefit is that you can put it on a switch or router and all devices there can share the same wireless connection without needing to add wireless cards on them.

Care to substantiate this statement ?
Is there a technical reason behind it, or is it simply a personal grudge ?


My Belkin Wireless G Plus card works perfectly well with the bcm43xx driver in Linux.

My Friends Belkin Wireless G card works perfectly well with the mad-wifi Drivers in Linux.

Thanks for your suggestions. I am researching setting up a Wireless Bridge now. As for the double-post, I wasn't quite sure whether it should be posted in hardware or wireless networking. It won't happen again.

Thanks for your suggestion. I will try lspci as soon as I get home. It may not work, though, since my distro is not even recognizing my card. I do know that my chipset was made by Airgo.