ok, we have unresolved symbols like you said .... so i'm guessing we're good

ok, time to test things,
1. su again to root
2. modprobe pcmf502rd, then, lsmod and see if it's there
3. insert card, you may hear a couple of beeps
4. ifconfig -a, should list an eth0 device with your cards's MAC address listed next to "HWaddr"
5. iwconfig
6. should list the eth0 device, and various other info.
7. at this point the settings you need to set via iwconfig are going to be specific to your site, ie: your essid, your wep key (if any), your channel or freq, your maximum rate, etc.
8. to just try the card: iwconfig eth0 mode Managed essid any rate auto
9. eventually, when your iwconfig stuff is right an iwconfig will list your access point/router's mac address as "Access Point" or similar, at this point try either dhcpcd eth0, or ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.10, where the "192..." address is valid for your network.
10. try to ping your router/access point: ping 192.168.2.1 where the "192..." address is the ip of your router. To break out of the ping command do a control+c.
11. route add default gw <ip address of your router> eth0
12. try to ping the web: ping cnet.com

additionally, in the atmelwlandriver/objs directory there are two applications you can try running as well, one is console based(lvnet) and the other for X windows, to run them from that directory precede the name with a './'. although they are for manual setup, meaning they don't seem to be scriptable, they are still somewhat useful for testing. The X application needs libforms installed.

to integrate all this into your regular bootup and resume from suspend, please see my little howto for this card, it's for mandrake and slackware, but the mandrake setup stuff should apply to RH as well. http://www.houseofcraig.net/belkin_howto.php

it says:

path/to/pcmf502rd.o: kernel-module version mismatch
path/to/pcmf502rd.o: was compiled for kernel vers 2.4.19-16mdk - while this vers is 2.4.20-8.
path/to/pcmf502rd.o: insmod path/to/pcmf502rd.o failed
path/to/pcmf502rd.o: insmod pcmf502rd failed

it says:

lo Link encap:local loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 etc

lo no wireless extensions

i didn't try the rest becuase these few stages didnt match.

any idea why?!?!

You were right to stop at that point, nothing else was going to work anyway, without the module being loaded, the card doesn't work.

The error you got "pcmf502rd.o: was compiled for kernel vers 2.4.19-16mdk - while this vers is 2.4.20-8" means you compiled the module on a machine running Mandrake 9.0, and are now trying to use it on a machine running RedHat 9.0, this could almost work if the compilers on both distros were the same version , but they are not. You'll need to compile the module on the RedHat machine.

Correct me if I'm wrong here, when you said earlier that you had reached "point 8", that meant that you had successfully compiled the module, right? If so, you should be able to repeat that process on the redhat machine.

ps: please tell me that you did not download the module from my page -- that module will not work for redhat 9, the setup info for mandrake on that page should work, but not the module.

looking for a red hat version of the amtel drivers, then i will post back and see what happens then

I'm going to doubt that an RPM for this driver exists, although I do hope for your sake that one does. If not, I would suggest you compile the module yourself, it should be an interesting and educational experience, and your card will work when you're done

hey, i'm also having problems with belkin and i'm on slackware 9.1
i followed your your howto, but no luck.
i got to the step number 10

10. try to ping your router/access point: ping 192.168.2.1 where the "192..." address is the ip of your router. To break out of the ping command do a control+c.


but i can't ping my router or anything else and i can't ping laptop from any other comp that's on that network... any suggestions?

thanks,
~lavr~