I am trying to configure a Belkin wireless notebook network card (F5D7011UK) on my Sony Vaio PCG-FX501 running Fedora Core 3. Following the prescription on NdisWrapper Wiki web I installed ndiswrapper and drivers for the card and it seems that this operation was successful. "iwlist wlan0 scan" shows that the card is present with a correct network name and encryption WEP key, and I can see the green light on the card. I added two lines to /etc/modprobe.conf: options ndiswrapper if_name=wlan0
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
and then set up network parameters using Application->System Setting->Network .

When I try to activate the network card in "Network Device Control" I get an error message:
"Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20): SET failed on device wlan0; Operation not supported. Determining IP info for wlan0 ... failed" .

Does anyone know how to make my card working properly?

Cheers,
Irena

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Hi Irena,

I recently installed the same wireless network card in my laptop under Fedore Core 3 and it works fine.

There is a detail you have to know ( The WPA_supplicant support ) if you have installed only the the ndiswrapper driver then you must know that doens't support all the protocols and you have to fix your Access Point in order that both of them use the same support. In case you don't want to change your AP which uses for example ( WPA-PSK ) then you need to install the WPA_supplicant support which gives you the possibility to use more protocols.
My AP uses ( proto=WPA, kye_mgmt=WPA-PSK and pairwise=TKIP ) therefore I had to installed the WPA_supplicant support. Once you have installed and configured this package you don't need to configure your interface using the linux GUI, because the GUI doesn't give you the option to configure this new features. You will have to start your interface thru command lines or to write a simple script which active your interface.


Good luck,
Pachanga

Hi, Pachanga,

Many thanks for your reply.
What do you mean by "fix your Access Point"?
Where can I download the WPA_supplicant support package for Belking wireless notebook network card (F5D7011UK) from? I would appreciate if you could tell me how you installed and configured it.

Cheers,
Irena

Does anyone know if I need to use a WPA_supplicant package if I want to use a WEP encryption key (NOT WPA) ? As I know I can set a WEP key with ndiswrapper by executing "iwconfig wlan0 key open XXXXXXXX" (or restricted instead of open).

Cheers,
Irena

wep does not require wpa_supplicant, that is for wpa only

Thanks for your reply.

Do you know how to uninstall WPA_supplicant? I installed it from a command line typing "make", etc., to see if I can configure my wireless card properly with WPA encryption. Before it was configured with WEP key, but I could not activate it (error connected to BitRate).

Cheers,
Irena

go to source directory and run That'll pull out the .o files and hopefully sort you out

Hi Irene

Sorry for the delay. I think I used the wrong word ( to set I meant not to fix ) Anyway I wrote down how I installed and configured both protocols WEP and WAP. Give a look at my thread