Your real close....... and I have not given up..........

Like I said your not alone with this problem, but I think I found an answer;

http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthr...ight=at76c503a

Please try the instructions starting from step 6 (remember you don't need to build anything) in the 1st post.

Also some routers can be part of the problem, if the dhcp configuration does not work use a static IP address in the range of your router's IP address. If your router is set at for example 192.168.2.1 then try using 192.168.2.222 as your static (assigned) IP address and set the GATEWAY=192.168.2.1 in the ifcfg-wlan0 script. You can set the GATEWAY=<your routers IP address> both with a static IP and with a dhcp assigned IP adrress.

STATIC changes in ifcfg-wlan0

BOOTPROTO=
IPADDR=192.168.2.222
GATEWAY=192.168.2.1

Still no seeing belkin

Lets bring everything together in one place (mainly for others)...........

Make sure you have the firmware installed to /lib/firmware
location by entering;

ls /lib/firmware

Sample expected results;
$ ls /lib/firmware
atmel_at76c502_3com.bin atmel_at76c504_2958-wpa.bin
atmel_at76c502_3com-wpa.bin atmel_at76c504a_2958-wpa.bin
atmel_at76c502.bin atmel_at76c504.bin
atmel_at76c502d.bin atmel_at76c504c-wpa.bin
atmel_at76c502d-wpa.bin atmel_at76c505a-rfmd2958.bin
atmel_at76c502e.bin atmel_at76c505-rfmd2958.bin
atmel_at76c502e-wpa.bin atmel_at76c505-rfmd.bin
atmel_at76c502-wpa.bin atmel_at76c506.bin
atmel_at76c503-i3861.bin atmel_at76c506-wpa.bin
atmel_at76c503-i3863.bin BCM2033-FW.bin
atmel_at76c503-rfmd-0.90.2-140.bin BCM2033-MD.hex
atmel_at76c503-rfmd-acc.bin BCM-LEGAL.txt
atmel_at76c503-rfmd.bin


If not then install the atmel-firmware-1.3-1fc3.noarch.rpm from;

http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel/

Insure the amtel drivers are available and installed in
/lib/modules/<kernel-version-number>/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
by entering;

ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/atm*

note: that is the ` key [by the number 1 and 'Esc' keys]
not the ' key [by the 'Enter' key] in the command above

Sample expected results;
$ ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/atm*
/lib/modules/2.6.14.4/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/atmel.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.14.4/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/atmel_pci.ko


As root using your choice of text editor, modify your
/etc/modprobe.conf file to read like;

alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
alias char-major-81 saa7134
alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias eth0 sk98lin
alias scsi_hostadapter1 sata_promise
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
# options atmel irq=7
alias wlan0 atmel

Save and exit the file. Notice I changed the alias for atmel to be wlan0 and
commented out the options line. The irq for the device should set by the
usb port and system but not by you.

Next you need to create a new file called ifcfg-wlan0 and place it in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory location. Below is the file, you
can copy, cut and paste if you want to;

------- Cut below this line ------
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
IPV6INIT=no
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=wlan0
HWADDR=
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=
# place your AP router's name above if you want
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Auto
RATE=Auto

------- Cut above this line ------

When done safe and exit the file and text editor. Close out of any
other open applications and shutdown your system. Plug the wireless
device in then start (boot) your system into Linux. Hopefully you
should have a working wireless device.

ok.. saddly I had a minor system crash of linux..unknow in nature, but I have fully reloaded and did exactly what is asked above ..Saddly it is not detecting the belkin on boot up but show in lsusb, and as unknown hardware.. Is it possible the usb drivers are messed up or another driver is malfunctioning?

then did
upon boot
device not present / unknown error in boot sequenceing..

I just feel like a total idiot.. I just look at this ...... my FCC ID matches this one above quoted.Could this be my problem, or have they fixed this issue with the 64 bit version ?

Yes, I have seen the page and know that the driver is old(10 November 2004). It has been reworked and added into the 2.6 kernel series.

The firmware for the device should be one of these;

atmel_at76c503-rfmd.bin
atmel_at76c503-i3861.bin
atmel_at76c503-i3863.bin
atmel_at76c503-rfmd-0.90.2-140.bin
atmel_at76c503-rfmd-acc.bin

So let's try loading the firmware then bringing the interface;

/sbin/modprobe -r atmel
/sbin/modprobe -v atmel
/sbin/atmel_fwl wlan0 /lib/firmware/atmel_at76c503-rfmd.bin
/sbin/ifup wlan0

If it does not work try using the next firmware file from the list.
Repeat until you run out of firmware files to try. Make note of which
one works (if any).

What's going on with the four commands above;

/sbin/modprobe -r atmel ;removes the driver and firmware bin file
/sbin/modprobe -v atmel ;installs the driver
/sbin/atmel_fwl wlan0 <firmware bin file> ;loads the firmware bin file
/sbin/ifup wlan0 ;try to make a wireless connection

ok done following, but when this command used
It states not an atmel device I look at the things inards it is at76c503a chip inside it

What is the date a size of the atmel_at76c503-rfmd.bin file?

Try for the sake of it the atmel_at76c504.bin please.

atmel_at76c503-rfmd.bin == 37.1Kb

This also didnt work

Hmm..... checked three different sources all are the same size;

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37964 Dec 13 00:07 atmel_at76c503-rfmd.bin

the dates and build time vary but that is all that's different;

-rw-r--r-- 1 lenard lenard 37964 May 7 2005 atmel_at76c503-rfmd.bin

ok now what do you think best option to do as far as our next phase ?

Run a 32-bit kernel -- This may not be a good idea, depending on your installation. The installation needs to be able to run in x86 mode, which means many duplicate packages need to be installed for both x86 and x86_64 bit.

Build your own clean kernel from the vanilla kernel sources at kernel.org
(hardware compatiblity issues are why I no longer use the Fedora/Red Hat supplied kernels)

Try a different USB/PCI/PCMCIA wireless device, one that has 64-bit Windows drivers available and is known to work with ndiswrapper.

Find a firmware.bin file that works with you current Belkin USB wireless interface.

Find a wireless USB/PCI/PCMCIA device that works with one of the firmware.bin files you currently have.

Have you seen this????


http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=243998


Thank you Belkin.....

seen it tried it dont work ;(