Okay, I needed some sleep so I've only been on this for about an hour today but I've made a little progress, still no connection. Also, obviously this is not a gOS problem and more of a Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) issue. Actually, in my opinion, I don't think it's even really an Ubuntu problem but more of a the hardware manufactures fault...that's just my opinion though. Plus, Linux is fairly new to me as well so that's probably the main issue here...anyways...
I found that I was wrong about the following link not giving me enough info (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=756260) So definitely go and read that first. Anyone that hasn't checked that out first should as that's what I am using as a guide for now. I did finally install the ndiswrapper. I put in my gOS CD and navigated to the /media/cdrom0/pool/main/n/ndiswrapper and installed the "ndiswrapper-utils..." .deb package. That installed with no problems (Windows users can just double-click on the .deb pagkage and it'll install it for them or use the terminal if you want to). Fortunately, I had my "Smart Wizard" CD for my Belkin network adapter so I all i had to do is copy the drivers from the folder to a inf folder, just like the guide tells you to (Step 3). I copied the following files to the inf folder: BLKWGU.inf and BLKWGUXP.sys. I installed the BLKWGU.inf driver (Step 5), it wouldn't install the other file so I left it alone (maybe a mistake?). I then followed Step 6 and typed in ndiswrapper -l but I got the following: "blkwgu : invalid driver!" so that's not good. I went back to Step 5 and ran the previous command and it tells me the driver is installed so I am pretty sure that it's installed. I wasn't sure what to do after I got the error message in Step 6 so I went to the next few steps out of curiousity (maybe another mistake?). The next 3 steps (7, 8 and 9) went well, which I thought was strange. Step 9 (iwconfig) was especially interesting because it found the following ESSID:"Belkin_N_Wireless_A86CEB", which is not my wireless adpapter but the name of a wireless adapter that I am suppose to connect to get an internet connection, actually there's more than one router but I don't think that's really important. Like I said, I already connected to this internet connection under Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) so I know it's not the particular "network set up" that's the problem, even though it is unusual. Regardless, here is the output after using the iwconfig command. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/inf$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"Belkin_N_Wireless_A86CEB" Nickname:"zd1211" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:1C:DF:A8:6C:EB Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Link Quality=47/100 Signal level=12/100 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/inf$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid Belkin_N_Wireless_66591E Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/inf$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid Belkin_N_Wireless_A86CEB Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/inf$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid Belkin_N_Wireless_8B1A Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/inf$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid BELKIN Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.. ...This is where I am at the moment (like I said I've made SOME progress). If anyone can put me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. Also, once I do figure it out (and I have an internet connection on my gOS machine) I will write step-by-step instructions on how to get this particular wireless adapter to work. Then hopefully someone with a lot more knowledge can generalize my steps and make it work for all (or most) USB Wireless Adapters. Thanks again for the replies. On Sep 7, 3:06 am, gies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Same problem here, but as I am just stepping into the world of Linux / > gOS wouldn't mind a step by step explanation. Your help is highly > > PS like gOS so far > > On Sep 7, 7:31 am, jmolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am having basically the same problem only have never had this USB > > Adapter work. Help appreciated. Thanks! > > > On Sep 6, 10:55 pm, u_07 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > I am having problems getting my Belkin Wireless G USB Network Adapter > > > F5D7050 to work. I do not have internet connection on this machine so > > > I can't simply use apt-get. Also, I've read the following post > > > (http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux/browse_thread/thread/b4d1ba73... > > > ) and links it provided as well and they were sort of helpful but it's > > > not solving the problem. I am also looking over at the Ubuntu forums > > > as well. > > > > Anyways, the wireless network adapter worked without any problem on my > > > Ubuntu machine (Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn)). But I see now that with > > > the Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) people are having problems with this > > > adapter so I need some good resources to get it all working. I see > > > that you need to install ndiswrapper so seeing as I do not have an > > > internet connection I put in my gOS CD, navigated to the cdrom drive > > > and with the terminal I typed out: sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper- > > > common* (utils doesn't seem to work and suggests that you use > > > ndiswrapper-common instead). From what I saw it seemed to install the > > > package but when I ran the following command sudo ndiswrapper -i > > > BLKWGU.inf I get the following: "Error: no ndiswrapper utils found!" > > > > Any links to resources on this particular Network Adapter using Ubuntu > > > 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is welcomed. Thanks for your help. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. 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