Belkin 54G

[OssAgentX]

Hello All,

I just installed Mandrake 10.1. On a Dell Latitude. I have a Belkin 54G wireless notebook card. I have no clue on how to get it working. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[mmills]

1st you want to check out a little application called ndiswrapper, go to your application installation program for mandrake and do a ndiswrapper search.
you will want to find the driver disk that came with the laptop or the card, and figure out which inf or sys file xp or 2000 was using in the device manager, if you know which file it was, then copy that to your desktop. Install "ndiswrapper" then open up a konsole and type in ndiswrapper, it will say something like -l list driver -i install driver, you will want to root ndiswrapper -i /copy the location of the file/right click/ it will say something like driver install hardware present, then you will want to modprobe ndiswarpper, once this is done you will want to go to the network section in mandrake and activate the card, set it up to dynamic or static, depending on your ISP service, then reboot, goto the konsole, and type in root ndiswrapper -m this will be the final modprobe.

remember ndiswrapper was written around the network wifi frame of microsoft so microsft driver are 1st and formost most important.

root ndiswrapper - i /right click copy file
password:
ndiswrapper -l
modprobe ndiswrapper
activate hardware in network section
reboot
open konsole &
ndiswrapper -m

hope this helps....matt

please post all results :o

[mmills]

I couldnt loacte any how to material for your specific ver of mandrake with that card but here is some info on what your Konsole will kick out after the install

once you have it installed you will open the konsole and type this in

ndiswrapper -i /right click copy file location.inf

then you will type ndiswrapper -l and get this message

ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

now that you have done that you will want to

modprobe ndiswrapper

now go activate the card in the network device section

rebbot

open up konsole and

ndiswrapper -m

reboot and post results.

hope this was a little better info....matt

[OssAgentX]

Thanks for the information!
I'm actually working on getting the driver to the linux machine. That's where I run into my next question. Which will be very simple. I won't have to tell you that I'm still new at this based on this question. When I plug the Lexar Media Jump drive.....mandriva sees the drive..but where do i acess the belkin driver to it? hahaha i know..im an idiot.

[mmills]

I am asuming that when you say jump drive you mean a flash drive like as in a usb storage disk? the driver if it wer on the cd would be in a sub folder more than likely, and where you might run into issues is if there is no inf or sys file, if you only have exe files, then you may have to revamp the system, install MS and install the driver, then copy it to a floppy or usb storage pen or email or something, then start over again, you cant execute exe files in linux. :o

if you have an icon from the jump drive on the desktop double click it, it may show up as like a harddrive icon or a usb pen icon. you may try looking in the system, then local drives. Its been ahwile since I have done anything with KDE or Mandrake.

hope that helps some......matt

[OssAgentX]

Still trying to get Linux to recognize the wireless card on this dell laptop.

I was able to get ndiswrapper installed. The driver I used was PCMCIAbcmwl5.inf with bcmwl5.sys in the same dir. When I type in
ndiswrapper -l returns
Installed ndis drivers:
pcmciabcmwl5 invalid driver!

ndiswrapper -m returns
modprobe config already contains alias directive

When I also go to Network Device Control and activate card I get the message ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

I just need to confirm that my problem is the driver I selected?