ok im going to try a diffrent aproch since i can get my lin distro to work with my wireless card im going to ask
has any one had any sucess with a belkin 802.11g
if so what distro were you using i think this is my problem not the card
thx

Some have had success using ndiswrapper. You can check if your card is listed here:

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/List

can u sugest a distro that might suport it with out using that program







thx

I believe your card uses the Broadcom chip and as far as I know there are no Linux drivers for that chip. Check to see what chip your card is using.

this might soundkinda dumb but how do i do that is it printed onthecard or the box or somthing

ok i found it it is a broadcom
if it helps the card model is f5d7001

Looks like you will have to use the ndiswrapper since, afaik, Linux does not have a driver for the Broadcom chip. There is another driver, Linuxant, not sure of the spelling, that is similar to ndiswrapper, but it is a commercial product. May have better luck with it.

one problem i need a distro name ok read this u might under stand my situation
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=259621

Hello robodude,

I have the f5d7000 and f5d7010 cards from belkin. I am using mandrake 10.1 community edition and they both run perfectly using ndiswrapper version 0.11. I have just upgraded to v0.12 of ndiswrapper (released yesterday) and it also works flawlessly. The problem I had initially was the use of the latest driver from the belkin site. It kept locking up during modprobe. Then I downloaded the driver that was confirmed to work and I haven't looked back. I found this driver on the sourceforge site for ndiswrapper.
Hope this helps
Chris

thx dude im going to try that so i now say farewell to suse time to reinstall mandrake lets get to formating ima nut

hey am i going to have to go theroug a millin dependincies and erors to get that ndiswrapper installed?

I don't beleive there are any dependencies. However you do need the wireless tools package installed.

k thx

exactly,

rpmdrake in 10.1 CE automatically satisfies dependencies. Wireless tools is installed by default, kernel-source will probably need to be installed. After that, just follow my above instructions.
Regards
Chris

ok i fell dum askin this but i have no idea where to go from here so here it is
I installed ndiswrapper so um now what!?