First, I'll try not to keep posting until I've made more progress but I did find this link which may help others: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=273764 This essentially says that you should include all of the drivers from the Belkin CDROM. I did this but it's still giving me the same messages, "driver blkwgu is already installed" and "blkwgu : invalid driver!". I wonder if I should uninstall the driver then reinstall it again with all of the files? If so, not sure how to unistall blkwgu.inf with ndiswrapper at the moment...if anyone knows the command for this feel free to let me know. Thanks.
On Sep 7, 2:28 pm, u_07 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I renamed the file to blkwgu.inf and reissued the ndiswrapper > command and it gave me the following reply "driver blkwgu is already > installed" so the .inf driver must be installed. But in Step 6 I still > get the same message "blkwgu : invalid driver!" So the driver is > installed but it's invalid? Not sure what I should do next as that's > not good. thanks again! > > On Sep 7, 1:52 pm, wirechief <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You didn't mention if you checked for the captialization problem, Linux is > > case sensitiveI am refering to this .... > > 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?). > > > Linux may not like the CAPS. > > > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:42 PM, u_07 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > -- > > Reach out and share life, care for others, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
