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Old 05-26-2005, 01:49 PM   #1
Iaremonkey
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NDIS wrapper hates me


okay, I got the patched kernel, then I finally got Ndis wrapper installed, then I finally got it working, got my driver loaded, got the internet to work, now linux freezes after 10 minutes.

I have no clue why this is happening, could somebody help me?
 
Old 05-27-2005, 08:29 AM   #2
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It seems everytig started after internet can u provide more detailed information. Looks like driver compatibility issue
 
Old 05-27-2005, 03:14 PM   #3
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I'm using a belkin F5D7050 with patched 2.6.9-1.667stk16smp kernel and the drivers from the disk, people seem to have gotten this working but I'm stuck
 
Old 05-28-2005, 04:02 AM   #4
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Iaremonkey

The scenario seems out to be with the driver. I wuld suggest u to check out for ur VGA drivers also
 
Old 05-28-2005, 05:22 AM   #5
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Well have you really seen if it's just an ndiswrapper problem. Like modprobe it and then just leave your computer alone does it freeze then? Or try it with a download cause I think this might have to do with more than just ndiswrapper.

Also I don't know if linux can have IRQ problems easily but I had them in windows when my video card and network card were in the slots so that they both had the same IRQ. However I'm not sure if that can happen easily in linux.
 
Old 06-15-2005, 08:38 PM   #6
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Belkin F5D7050_v2 linux setup guide

This may not be the best place to post this, but LinuxQuestions is where I always look for answers. This is for the benefit of other F5D7050_v2 owners....



Belkin 54g USB Adapter (F5D7050 version 2) Linux Setup Howto

NOTE: Applies to F5D7050_v2 only! The version 1 does not use the rt2500 chipset.

All credit goes to serialmonkey and the RT2x00 Sourceforge team at: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads
Also thanks for inspiration and info from the excellent Wiki at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com//Rt2500WirelessCardsHowTo/
*** I could not get the Raconfig utility to compile, but if you would like to try, check out the Wiki link above. ***

1) Download the newest RT2570 USB nightly CVS tarball from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads

2) Open a console in the download directory.

3) Unpack the tarball with the following command:
Code:
# tar -xzf rt2500-cvs-daily.tar.gz
4) Type:
Code:
# cd ./rt2500-cvs-*/Module
5) Type:
Code:
# make
6) To install the module, type:
Code:
# sudo insmod rt2500.ko
7) To verify the module is installed, type:
Code:
# lsmod
Look at the top of the list. You should see rt2570, probably not being "used by" anything.

8) Insert the USB stick and type:
Code:
# dmesg | tail
You should see something like:
Code:
# usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
# idVendor = 0x50d, idProduct = 0x7050
9) The adapter should show up as "rausb0" under iwconfig. Type:
Code:
# iwconfig
Output should look like:
Code:
rausb0    RT2500USB WLAN  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.412 GHz
          RTS thr=0 B   Fragment thr=0 B
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
10) Now activate the adapter (VERY IMPORTANT) with:
Code:
# ifconfig rausb0 up
11) To get a list of access points, try:
Code:
# iwlist rausb0 scanning
12) If you use KDE, you may want to configure the card using kwifimanager. It didn't work for me, but give it a shot: Press [Alt]+[F2] and run:
Code:
# kwifimanager
If no luck, use iwconfig to configure the access point you want to connect to, for example:
Code:
iwconfig rausb0 essid YourAP mode Managed key YourWepKeyDigitsGoHere
13) Installing the driver permanently is important... Type:
Code:
# cp rt2570.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
14) Open your modprobe configuration file (mine is /etc/modprobe.conf) and append the following line to the end of it:
Code:
alias rausb0 rt2570
15) Restart the computer. You may want to add the iwconfig stuff to a startup script. If everything worked as expected, delete the downloaded and decompressed files.
Mine looks like:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
sudo ifconfig rausb0 down
sudo ifconfig rausb0 up
sudo iwconfig rausb0 mode Managed essid MyAP key MyWepKeyDigitsGoHere
sudo dhclient rausb0
Good luck.

Fisslefink at yahoo dot com
 
Old 07-24-2005, 09:47 AM   #7
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Re: Belkin F5D7050_v2 linux setup guide

Quote:
Originally posted by Fisslefink
[B]This may not be the best place to post this, but LinuxQuestions is where I always look for answers. This is for the benefit of other F5D7050_v2 owners....



Belkin 54g USB Adapter (F5D7050 version 2) Linux Setup Howto

NOTE: Applies to F5D7050_v2 only! The version 1 does not use the rt2500 chipset.

All credit goes to serialmonkey and the RT2x00 Sourceforge team at: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads
Also thanks for inspiration and info from the excellent Wiki at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com//Rt2500WirelessCardsHowTo/
*** I could not get the Raconfig utility to compile, but if you would like to try, check out the Wiki link above. ***

1) Download the newest RT2570 USB nightly CVS tarball from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads

2) Open a console in the download directory.

3) Unpack the tarball with the following command:
Code:
# tar -xzf rt2500-cvs-daily.tar.gz
4) Type:
Code:
# cd ./rt2500-cvs-*/Module
5) Type:
Code:
# make
6) To install the module, type:
Code:
# sudo insmod rt2500.ko
7) To verify the module is installed, type:
Code:
# lsmod
Look at the top of the list. You should see rt2570, probably not being "used by" anything.

8) Insert the USB stick and type:
Code:
# dmesg | tail
You should see something like:
Code:
# usb 1-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
# idVendor = 0x50d, idProduct = 0x7050
9) The adapter should show up as "rausb0" under iwconfig. Type:
Code:
# iwconfig
Output should look like:
Code:
rausb0    RT2500USB WLAN  ESSID:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.412 GHz
          RTS thr=0 B   Fragment thr=0 B
          Encryption key:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

dmesg output shows that the adapter has been detected. However I get no ' rausb0' in iwconfig output and I cannot activate the device with ifconfig (error unknown device). Help would be welcome. I use Mandrake 10.0
 
Old 08-04-2005, 06:54 AM   #8
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Re: Re: Belkin F5D7050_v2 linux setup guide

Quote:
Originally posted by sebastienkruk
dmesg output shows that the adapter has been detected. However I get no ' rausb0' in iwconfig output and I cannot activate the device with ifconfig (error unknown device). Help would be welcome. I use Mandrake 10.0
OK, I fixed this problem by finding informtion on Ralink-Tech forum -> the Belkin adapter (Vendor ID and product ID) was not listed in the supported device list defined in some header file (name ending with '_sw.h' if I remember well). I got it using 'lsusb' command, edited the header file and recompiled the driver.
After that, 'ifconfig rausb0 up' did not give any error and both 'ifconfig' and 'iwconfig' gave correct information about the rausb0 interface. 'iwlist rausb0 scanning' showed the Access Point is found correclty.
 
  


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