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:
6) To install the module, type:
Code:
# sudo insmod rt2500.ko
7) To verify the module is installed, type:
Look at the top of the list. You should see rt2570, probably not being "used by" anything.
8) Insert the USB stick and type:
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:
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:
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.
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