If the topic looks familiar...I checked that thread and it didn't help me.

I am a complete newbie at Linux, and only installed it a few days ago. But I've been searching for an answer to this little dilemma for several hours and nothing of use has turned up.

What I want to do is set up my wireless network over Redhat 9. The router is a Belkin F5D6230-3, and I'm trying to hook into it with a Belkin F5D6050 - which is a USB device. I can't find a place to set up USB internet connections, nor can I find Linux drivers for this device. And seeing as how I am, as I said, a complete nub, I'd rather not try and do things like compile my own drivers. But if it comes down to that I will.
I also want to be able to do this *only* running Linux. I've seen several solutions that look like they require dual boots with Win2k (which I don't even own in the first place). But I moved over to Linux for a very specific reason: because Windows sucks monkey and I don't want to deal with it anymore.

After that what I want to do is log onto my Windows machine and transfer about 20gb of files over to my hard drive. For all I know it may be blaringly obvious how to do this, but in the process of trying to load all the data off my other 4 HDDs I pirated off old machines, I noticed that I can't find the other drives (and yes, my BIOS says they're there). Nor can I read anything off of any disks that use a Windows file system. Which leads me to believe that somehow the two don't mix and that I'm wasting my time looking for them without knowing how to interface the two.

Once again...I am a total newbie (in Linux that is)...I'd appreciate it if you treated me like a 4-year old in the course of this thread




What an entertaining graphic:

Well, you will have to find out what the chip set is for your USB widget. Older ones are Prism based, and there is an RPM set that makes getting it to work relatively painless. Newer versions use the Atmel chip set. You'll have to go to their web site (google for atmel) and see what kind of linux support they provide.

If you have the prism version, post back, and I can walk you through the install process (I think. I use the PCI version myself.)

You'll want to post your Windows/Linux HD partition questions seperately, I think.

Cheers--
Charles

How doth I find teh chipset, besides ripping the thing apart? (Thanks for the quick replu btw )

If there's an FCCID printed on the device or it's packaging somewhere, you can go to the following link and use it to see "exhibits" of the hardware in a dis-assembled state, with some image enhancement and/or enlargement you should be able to read the names on the chips, although I'm fairly sure you've got an atmel chipset. Here's the link, and beware the FCC apparently needs to upgrade their hardware.
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/c...ericSearch.cfm