I spent the better part of two days in these forums looking at and trying info provided in my search for "Belkin" in these forums. Really some good post's, some I tried that did not work, one I tried and appeared like it did work. But I never got connected with it, so here I am.
I am running ubuntu Breeze. I installed ndiswrapper, then:
root@ubuntu:~/driver# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
Installing bcmwl5
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
root@ubuntu:~/driver# cd
root@ubuntu:~# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
That was the only good news, it looked perfect, rebooted and nothing was detected at all. Below I am posting some commands I used. My questions is, why can I not get a connection ? I really lack experience with wireless and am not real knowledgeable about it. If someone needs more info, please let me know.
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root@ubuntu:~$ modprobe ndiswrapper
(no error, no nothing)
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root@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:19874 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:19874 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier: 0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5521397 (5.2 MiB) TX bytes:5521397 (5.2 MiB)
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root@ubuntu:~$ dhclient
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 8660
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/sit0/
Sending on LPF/sit0/
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:11:11:de:02:cd
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:11:11:de:02:cd
Listening on LPF/lo/
Sending on LPF/lo/
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
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root@ubuntu:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
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