Belkin Wireless Ethernet Bridge on Mandriva LE 2005
 

Hi.

I recently bought a Belkin Wireless Ethernet Bridge (F5D7330) and have set it up as stated in the manual (software aside). In all it's powered up and connected to my computer via the respective Ethernet ports.

I took the assumption, based on my wireless router test, that being connected like this would mean I wouldn't need Linux drivers.
As it came with no linux drivers, and it isn't working with my linux partition I'm stuck.

Please help, I've been trying to get online via linux for 5 years now and I'm sick of it. If this product won't work with linux at all, can you recomend one that will (prefrably a PCI-wifi adapter, that would make life a bit easier).

Many thanks,

Chris Smith

I don't know why you would be having any problems.

A wireless bridge requires no software or interaction on the PC side. It should be completely transparent to the networked machines when setup properly.

So there should be no reason at all that it wouldn't work with your Linux machine.

hmmmm...

can you give me some pointers as to how to set it up?

At present my machine is trying to acess ADSL via Ethernet (as thats what the bridge is connected to). My ethernet drivers are installed and the comp has no trouble finding it.
But for some reason I just can't connect.

Glad to know it should work out the box though, at least I can do whatever software related wierdness is required.

So then you have a wireless router connected to the DSL modem, and you are trying to connect to the router with the bridge, yes?

Also, you said you setup the bridge with the router and were able to connect from Windows?

If that is the case, the problem would have to be in the machine itself. Perhaps DHCP isn't starting on the machine, or the NIC itself is having some problem.

What is the output of "ifconfig"?

Not sure what if config is.
I've tried setting up connection through windows, but that has no effect.

I've tried in linux setting up with both ADSL and Lan connections, through Ethernet 0, which my computer (i assume) is referencing through my Ethernet port on my MB. I connected up my Router and that worked fine after a reinstall, however I can't keep it in my room as one of my housemates would undoutbly trip over ther wire which runs down the stairs for this setup.

When I go to monitor the connection I get lots of sent packets and none recieved. So i know that somwhere along the line there is a problem, I just don't know where.

Am I right to assume that it is down to a hardware problem with the bridge and not my software.

It turns out the Bridge was faulty. I Took it back to the shop who confirmed this and gave me a new one (its the same model with a different name, packaging and £4 cheaper.