Problem getting Belkin F5D7051 to work

slothpuck · 09-07-2006, 01:23 PM

Hello all,

I'm running slackware linux 10.2 and am trying to get a Belkin wireless USB adapter model F5D701 to work. Unfortunatly, I've not been able to get the device to work at all.

So far, I have tried googling and reading ndiswrappers' wiki to find out what to do, however there seems to be something strange. I am not sure but there appears to be two versions of this device - a F5D7051UK and a F5D7051 (which I have, no mention of "UK" on the end of the device number of my USB device).

I cannot get ndiswrapper to detect the USB device at all. LSUSB lists the device as;

Code:

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 050d:7051 Belkin Components

lsusb -v

Code:

Bus 001 Device 007: ID 050d:7051 Belkin Components
Device Descriptor:
  bLength                18
  bDescriptorType         1
  bcdUSB               2.00
  bDeviceClass            2 Communications
  bDeviceSubClass         0
  bDeviceProtocol         0
  bMaxPacketSize0        64
  idVendor           0x050d Belkin Components
  idProduct          0x7051
  bcdDevice            0.06
  iManufacturer           1
  iProduct                2
  iSerial                 3
  bNumConfigurations      1
  Configuration Descriptor:
    bLength                 9
    bDescriptorType         2
    wTotalLength           48
    bNumInterfaces          2
    bConfigurationValue     1
    iConfiguration          0
    bmAttributes         0x80
    MaxPower              500mA
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        0
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           1
      bInterfaceClass         2 Communications
      bInterfaceSubClass      2 Abstract (modem)
      bInterfaceProtocol    255 Vendor Specific (MSFT RNDIS?)
      iInterface              0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
        bmAttributes            3
          Transfer Type            Interrupt
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0010  bytes 16 once
        bInterval               4
    Interface Descriptor:
      bLength                 9
      bDescriptorType         4
      bInterfaceNumber        1
      bAlternateSetting       0
      bNumEndpoints           2
      bInterfaceClass        10 Data
      bInterfaceSubClass      0 Unused
      bInterfaceProtocol      0
      iInterface              0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x82  EP 2 IN
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  bytes 512 once
        bInterval               0
      Endpoint Descriptor:
        bLength                 7
        bDescriptorType         5
        bEndpointAddress     0x03  EP 3 OUT
        bmAttributes            2
          Transfer Type            Bulk
          Synch Type               None
          Usage Type               Data
        wMaxPacketSize     0x0200  bytes 512 once
        bInterval               1

I have used the drivers that came with this device from its CD - they all seemed to copy across using ndiswrapper. An ndiswrapper -l reports this;

Code:

bcmrndis                driver installed, hardware present

But very little shows up in dmesg;

Code:

ndiswrapper version 1.19rc2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 1-3: no configuration chosen from 1 choice

I've tried different versions of ndiswrapper (downloaded the source, compiled, followed the make instructions and depmod) and rmmoding and modprobing - all with the same result. The same builds of ndiswrapper work ok with a Netgear MA111.

Does anyone know what the "no configuration" line means?

Thanks for any help!

SP

Dan63043 · 09-07-2006, 05:34 PM

I'm a newbie, but I have some Belkin wireless experience on Linux. There's a way to identify the components card's components. I think I used the output from booting Knoppix and found it was Ralink. See what you have. Ralink has native support for Linux.

slothpuck · 10-08-2006, 10:52 AM

Unfortunatly it's a broadcom chipset ..... x.x ;( and I've not managed to get it to work at all.....urg

SP

TreColl · 10-08-2006, 02:39 PM

I too have the same device, and am trying to get it to run under ubuntu 6.06.

I have read about ndiswrapper (gui) but i am not sure which file i need to select from the belkin cd to give it a go!?

Could somebody please assist me by telling me which file it is i need to select.

TIA
TreColl

NogungHo · 10-22-2006, 11:45 AM

TreColl,

Im using Suse 10.1.
I managed to get the drivers installed by copying the complete contents of the Belkin CD to my home directory. Then after installing ndiswrapper, calling

ndiswrapper -i <path to .inf file>

creates a folder /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmrndis

which contains some .conf .inf & .sys files. After that ndiswrapper -l returns

Installed drivers:
bcmrndis driver installed, hardware present

hth

slothpuck · 12-27-2006, 03:13 PM

I now have this too, but there is no sign of any wlan0 from iwconfig or from ifconfig.

SP

slothpuck · 04-24-2007, 02:13 PM

Well, some months after posting here I'd say don't buy one of these. If you have one either bin it or ebay it. It will *not* work with linux, there are no native drivers and ndiswrapper's instructions will not work for this device, even with the latest version.

A Better adaptor that'll work? The Netgear MA111V1 is old but has native drivers - and works .

SP