My saga continues trying to install the driver and configure this card, so far to no avail!
This version of the Belkin pci card uses the adm8211 chipset.

I installed the driver from aluminum.sourmilk.net/adm8211/

lsmod shows the adm8211 module as installed.

I'm using Suse 9.1, and using Yast to configure the card.

configuration name: wlan0
hardware name: static-0

Under "Kennel module"
module name: orinoco_pci
Wireless settings: managed

When booting the system, the wlan0 module is not loading. After a countdown of 15 seconds, I get "'interface could not be set up" and a "failed" indicator.

I'd sure appreciate any ideas on what else to try!

Thanks!

The module name is not orinoco_pci, it is adm8211, and the network device name it generates start with eth, not wlan. If the adm8211 module is loaded, you should be able to find the name of your wireless card by running iwconfig. Specifying a module name shouldn't even be necessary on modern distros with hotplug installed..

Thanks. I guess the problem is that the driver is not loading. I ran iwconfig and nothing shows up. Also, neither adm8211 nor Belkin come up on the Ethernet card list. Nor do they come up on the Wireless list, either.

Any other suggestions?

Run "modprobe adm8211" to force the driver to load.

Then run "dmesg" to see if the driver loaded properly.

Also, you might want to run "lspci -n", "lspci -v", and post it here to make sure you really have a belkin F5D6001 v2 with an adm8211 chip. (you never know...)

Thanks for the advice. Well, here's what the system shows. This is a bit past my knowledge of Linux. Not sure what it means! The driver does not seem to load or sho up on the selection lists. Interesting how the card shows up under lspci as a Linksys brand as opposed to Belkin. But the chipset is the right one.

George
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lspci -n shows
0000:00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:7190 (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 Class 0604: 8086:7191 (rev 03)
0000:00:0d.0 Class 0401: 1274:1371 (rev 08)
0000:00:0e.0 Class 0200: 10b7:9200 (rev 74)
0000:00:0f.0 Class 0280: 1317:8201 (rev 11)
0000:00:14.0 Class 0601: 8086:7110 (rev 02)
0000:00:14.1 Class 0101: 8086:7111 (rev 01)
0000:00:14.2 Class 0c03: 8086:7112 (rev 01)
0000:00:14.3 Class 0680: 8086:7113 (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 Class 0300: 102b:0521 (rev 03)

lspci -v shows:
0000:00:0f.0 Network controller: Linksys ADMtek ADM8211 802.11b Wireless Interface (rev 11)
Subsystem: Accton Technology Corporation: Unknown device 3201
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11
I/O ports at 1400
Memory at 42100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2


dmesg shows:
adm8211: Copyright 2003, Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>; Copyright 2004, Mic
hael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
adm8211: release 20041005
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0f.0
0000:00:0f.0 (adm8211): EEPROM type 93C46
0000:00:0f.0 (adm8211): RFtype=1 BBPtype=1 Specific BBP=0 Transceiver=0
0000:00:0f.0 (adm8211): Channel range: 1-11
eth1: hwaddr 00:30:bd:e0:d8:31, IRQ 11, Rev 0x11, PCI ID: 0x82011317, mem @0x421
00000 (len=0x400)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0d.0

The interface name is eth1. You need to figure out some way to configure interface eth1. (not wlan0) I suppose under most distributions, you'd add an interface, set the interface name to eth1, etc etc. The driver is correctly loaded, so your problem is distribution specific. The same problem would happen with any other driver not directly supported by SuSE. (can't speak for other distros, they might have their interface detection stuff smarter)

I finally got this to work using ndiswrapper!

Hi; I've also dwonloaded the file but I can't install it so far.

neither make or make install work...

could you please help me on how to install the driver, I'm newbie and really would appreciate the help. Regards Sitmex.