Belkin Wireless Notebook Adapter
 

I have read few other problems about these in other posts, I just have a differenr problem!

I still cannot connect to it, and being a total n00b to linux makes it harder, this is the first time I have used it. So bear with me.

On my laptop, I cannot get online using the PCMCIA card, therefore cannot get online at all on the laptop, to download the linux ... things!

So I cannot follow most howto's becuase someone of them, one of them I am using (cannot post url do to your 5 post rule) seems to be the most promising, although I need to download a binary to do it so I have the driver for the pcmcia

So does anyone have any ideas.

My laptop doesn't have an ethernet port, so I cannot just plug straight into there either :(

Just in case

the internet is.

Bleyonder 2mb, modem connected to router via ehternet and then router connected to computer via ethernet.

Could you post the complete model number of your card and the FCCID if it has one, as well as what version of what linux distribution you are using? I have a belkin wireless pcmcia card and it works fine with both mandrake and slackware, so don't be discouraged.

F5D6020v2 (802.11b)

i cant find a FCCID, I was using Mandrake9.1, but i've gone out and bought red hat9 .. which picks up the wireless PCMCIA on boot, but tells me to either get rid of it or do nothing.

i am also trying to get some .tar's off of a Sony Memory Stick USB adapter (MSAC-US1) ... it can find it, and has drivers (so says Hardware Browser) .... but I cannot find anywhere to actually get the stuff off of it.

Thanks for any help given, :)

(I will not be able to test the actuall internet connection until saturday, but I am sure we can get most of it done now)

Note:
If you'd like to install Mandrake 9.0 or Slackware 9.0 on your machine, you can skip all this and download my ready-to-use modules from my website
http://www.houseofcraig.net/belkin_howto.php while you're there take a look at the howto for when you need to configure the card. These are the exact same modules I use everyday on 2 different notebooks.

Ok, that's the same card I have, the kernel module for it is in source code format downloadable from sourceforge.net, don't worry about the intersil radio support, your card doesn't need it.

you'll want to go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...e_id=128821and download the atmelwlandriver.2.1.2.2.bz2 file, when asked where to put it type /usr/local/src.

Then you'll want to open a console as root and type these commands in this order:
1. cd /usr/local/src
2. bunzip2 atmelwlandriver.2.1.2.2.tar.bz2
3. tar xf atmelwlandriver.2.1.2.2.tar
4. cd atmelwlandriver
5. make config

this will start a short question/answer section which looks like this, you'll answer "y" to only 2:

Build all [y/N] : n
Set extra module version information [y/N] : n
Build Debug version [y/N] : n
Build USB Drivers [y/N] : n
Build PCMCIA Drivers [y/N] : y
Build PCMCIA rfmd Driver [y/N] : n
Build PCMCIA 3COM Driver [y/N] : n
Build PCMCIA rfmd revision d Driver [y/N] : y
Build PCMCIA rfmd revision e Driver [y/N] : n
Build PCMCIA 504 Driver [y/N] : n
Build miniPCI Driver [y/N] : n
Build applications [y/N] : n
Kernel Version Running 2.4.19-16mdk
Found Kernel Source Directory (/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/build)
using kernel pcmcia
Finished. Now run make clean, all, install*

* note: do NOT run "make clean" or "make install" just yet, the lvnet and winter applications are already compiled and this may obliterate them. They just might work as-is on your distro, so try that first before running "make clean"

If, instead of "using kernel pcmcia" the config program asks you for the "location of external pcmcia", you'll have to install the pcmcia-cs source code for your distro and then start over, post back if that happens, otherwise, continue...

6. make all

if all goes well your driver (actually kernel module) will be compiled and placed in /usr/local/src/atmelwlandriver/objs directory.

7. (from the same console you've been using)
cp objs/pcmf502rd.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/pcmcia

8. depmod -a

depmod -a may return "unresolved symbols", it did on 2 of my notebooks, yet the module is nicely working.

if/when you get to this point, post back.

i'm seeing this off of my dads laptop, so i am trying to stick it onto floppy disc and then go from there, but it doesnt seem to be working this time .. it did on mandrake, just not RH

oops, I've been editing that post, refresh the page just to be sure.

as i said before, we're having trouble viewing things off of a floppy.

so i cant really do much untill then

(even files on a cd dont work (that includes the red hat install discs))

Not sure what browser you're using but most have a "save page" type thing on the file menu. Or are you having trouble writing to the floppy device?

i can write to it

the whole this is; from this laptop into the memory stick, into the memory sticl reader/writer to the computer, from the computer onto floppy, from the floppy into the laptop ...

the laptop sees nothing on there though

Ok, I don't have redhat 9.0 installed, but try this anyway:
with the floppy in the machine, open a console and type mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy, then you can use Konqueror, or whatever file manager you're using to navigate to /mnt/floppy. If it comes back with "mount point /mnt/floppy doesn't exist", then type ls /mnt and see what *does* exist that looks like a good place to mount a floppy drive.

got that bit, and ... posted back

Ok, you'll need to use the RPM management tool that redhat provides and search for pcmcia-cs, then make sure you install the source code, not the actual package (which is already installed), then when it asks you for the location type the location where rh installed the pcmcia-cs source.

ok....eventually....we reach point 8!!

but its says .. depmod: command cannot be found

try /sbin/depmod -a, although if depmod is not in your path it means your not root, you'll need to first "su" and give the root password.