Belkin f5d6050 wirless driver help

jfactor37 · 10-20-2007, 06:39 AM

I'm a newbie to linux, and what do I find when I boot up fedora 7 first time but NO Wireless Driver! so I downloaded Berilos drivers off the web, but I can't understand the terminology on the install. Can some kind soul give me easy step-by-step instructions?

Indebted, Jfactor37

Information that I know:
OS: Fedora core 7
Kernel: 2.6.something
Wireless: Belkin f5d6050 (amtel chipset)
Driver: the one for amtels off berilos
other networking devices: unplugged realtek rtl8139 that I can't remove (Its not PCI)
I can use a linksys wusb11 ver. 2.8, but avoid that unless the belkin has no hope whatsoever!(It's my sisters and it doesn't work well with my XP
Windows IP: 72.65.190.77
PLEASE HELP!

jfactor37 · 10-20-2007, 06:50 AM

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Person_1873 · 10-20-2007, 08:11 AM

is your belkin device PCI USB or PCMCIA? if PCI or PCMCIA post the result of

Code:

#cd /sbin
#./lspci

if USB post results of

Code:

#cd /sbin
#./lsusb

Brian1 · 10-20-2007, 08:18 AM

It would be easier to install ndiswrapper and use the windows inf driver for the nic. Several post here on using yum and installing ndiswrapper and then setting up ndiswrapper. Use the search tool and ask ' ndiswrapper fedora '.

There may be other choices but posting output from ' /sbin/lspci -v ' and the related portion on the nic may reveal another choice but ndiswrapper is generic and works with just about every nic I have seen. if USB then maybe info can be gain from ' /sbin/lsusb '.

kernel version can be gotten from this command. ' uname -r '

Brian

jfactor37 · 10-20-2007, 08:26 AM

Its USB, but I need the driver as the *.INF file is not on the install disk besides in a *.JAR file (?????). Besides, all I need to know is how to insert the variable KERNEL_PATH in to the file Makefile.

Brian1 · 10-20-2007, 08:49 AM

You do not have the kernel source installed.
Post output from the following commands before going any further.
rpm -qa | grep kernel
uname -r
/sbin/lspci -v
/sbin/lsusb
ls -la /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

Are you trying ndiswrappper?
Are you doing the amtel stuff?
If amtel then post the link to the doc you have read for it.
There are some amtel modules in the kernel tree. Get that info from ls command.

From my experience only ndiswrapper will work with usb nics. The amtel modules may only work with amtel chipset other than USB.

Brian

jfactor37 · 10-20-2007, 09:22 AM

I will post ansers in asec. 1 thing though: I don't think I have hotplug (I checked and there wasn't an /etc/hotplug, let alone /etc/hotplug/firmware

Brian1 · 10-20-2007, 10:25 AM

Fedora started using udev and hal for most of this. Hotplug is outdated, Bits and pieces still exist on standard installs. Not sure if they are used though. udev and hal works so much better.

Brian