Hi, hello all....

I have a laptop computer with a Belkin wireless adapter card model F5D7011 ( PCMCIA ) and so far am unable to get it work.

Follows is the list of my computer settings.

Slackware 10.2.0 --current && Dropline

kernelversion 2.6.17-rc6-mm2

root@darkstar:~#lspci
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

root@darkstar:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth2 no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSIDff/any Nickname:"darkstar"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
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

root@darkstar:~# lsmod
Module Size Used by
eth1394 17924 0
ohci1394 31684 0
ieee1394 92856 2 eth1394,ohci1394
8250_pci 20480 0
8250 20628 1 8250_pci
serial_core 18944 1 8250
snd_intel8x0m 16268 1
af_packet 16520 0
bcm43xx 107800 0
ieee80211softmac 25856 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 29640 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt 5760 1 ieee80211
i2c_i801 8460 0
shpchp 33308 0
pci_hotplug 14216 1 shpchp
pcmcia 35116 0
firmware_class 9600 2 bcm43xx,pcmcia
yenta_socket 25356 2
rsrc_nonstatic 12672 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 38416 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
capability 5000 0

I sense the kernel module for the card has loaded (i.e bcm43xx), and that Slackware does indeed see the card,I therfore think this involves a configuration issue relating to rc. files.

rc.wireless.conf

## NOTE : Comment out the following five lines to activate the samples below ...
## --------- START SECTION TO REMOVE -----------
## Pick up any Access Point, should work on most 802.11 cards
#*)
# INFO="Any ESSID"
# ESSID="any"
# ;;
## ---------- END SECTION TO REMOVE ------------


00:11:50:1D:7D0)
INFO="Belkin"
ESSID="home"
CHANNEL="8"
MODE="Managed"
KEY="<private>"
;;


rc.inet1.conf

## Example config information for wlan0. Uncomment the lines you need and fill
## in your info. (You may not need all of these for your wireless network)
IFNAME[1]="wlan0"
#IPADDR[4]=""
#NETMASK[4]=""
USE_DHCP[1]="yes"
#DHCP_HOSTNAME[4]="icculus-wireless"
#DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes"
#DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes"
#DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes"
#DHCP_IPADDR[4]=""
WLAN_ESSID[1]=BARRIER05
LAN_MODE[1]=Managed
WLAN_RATE[1]="54M auto"
WLAN_CHANNEL[1]="auto"
WLAN_KEY[1]="<private>"
##WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="AuthMode=WPAPSK EncrypType=TKIP WPAPSK=7B1ABEEB5D197741923ED26727569C365E31212096A0EAFAD563B268BAD01CAF TxRate=0"
WLAN_WPA[1]="wpa_supplicant"
WLAN_WPADRIVER[1]="ndiswrapper"

AND

## Example config information for wlan0. Uncomment the lines you need and fill
## in your info. (You may not need all of these for your wireless network)
IFNAME[4]="wlan0"
#IPADDR[4]=""
#NETMASK[4]=""
USE_DHCP[4]="yes"
#DHCP_HOSTNAME[4]="icculus-wireless"
#DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes"
#DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes"
#DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes"
#DHCP_IPADDR[4]=""
WLAN_ESSID[1]=BARRIER05
LAN_MODE[41]=Managed
WLAN_RATE[4]="54M auto"
WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="auto"
WLAN_KEY[1]="f2345d69E1970f7c65193E5af6"
##WLAN_IWPRIV[4]="AuthMode=WPAPSK EncrypType=TKIP WPAPSK=7B1ABEEB5D197741923ED26727569C365E31212096A0EAFAD563B268BAD01CAF TxRate=0"
WLAN_WPA[4]="wpa_supplicant"
WLAN_WPADRIVER[4]="ndiswrapper"




If you have the same card, please can you post the settings as baldness is becomming a reality with increasing alacrity.
All help is appreciated and thank-you in advannce for your time.

Having tried ndiwrapper,