Hi,

I could really do with some help on this one. I would like to be able to use my Belkin F5D7000 wireless card to connect to my router (using WPA encryption). My "Dual boot" PC is running XP and Suse 10.1.I have very limited Linux knowledge and realise what I am asking may not the easiest thing to explain to a newbie. Though I haven't actually used Suse that much I would like to make this one of my first task's as I am getting frustrated booting XP, searching for Linux material, shutting down XP and then booting Linux. Help appreciated.

Thanks.

It looks like this site already has a guide for you, here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...Complete_Guide

tredegar,

Thanks. I have already seen this link but it just confuses me further. Why do I need to download a Dell file if I have a Belkin card? I thought that the ultimatePC@comcast link may have provided the answer but it's dead.

Thanks.

There doesn't seem to be a native linux driver for your card, and others too.
So, rather than spend a lot of time writing linux drivers for all the different cards, some clever people thought "why not use the windows driver that comes with the card, but wrap it up, so it thinks it is running in windows, when really, it's linux".

As I understand it, this is what ndiswrapper does, but you need that bcmwl5a.inf file, that comes with windows (even though, as the link I gave you says, you have to unzip the exe file to find it). You don't have to get it from Dell, you can google for it, or maybe even find it on the windows installation disk that came with your card.