installing belkin wireless usb adaptor

itbod · 09-10-2008, 10:04 AM

Hi,

I have ubuntu ver 8. Belkin wireless usb adaptor f5d7051.

How do I install this? as no software appears to be around for linux to use this. Only cd i have is for windows xp etc.

thanks

serafean · 09-10-2008, 10:40 AM

Hi,

Which distro are you using? my suggestion is : plug it in, and open some network configuration software. If no wireless device shows up, open a terminal and run "dmesg | grep b43", to check if the broadcom module was loaded (I think your card is based on a broadcom chip). If not, try "modprobe b43" . If it still doesn't work, install ndiswrapper through your distro's package manager, and use the windows driver (by installing it with ndiswrapper -i <filename>.inf )

Serafean