"Eron Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a belkin F5D7001uk wireless 125G high speed card with a Broadcom > chipset (BCM4318). I have found a Linux driver for it on their website. I > have read the following instructions but fail at Item 2 because I don't know > where the 'RPM Path' is. I don't know where to CD to.
IMO, Belkin network drivers are terrible and unrepairable. Also, like many bad hardware makers, if you contact them with a problem and you're not using their one blessed distribution, they either ignore you or refuse to help. Their support site is WCAG-ignoring maze, designed for a particular browser and screen size. I won't be buying Belkin again in a hurry. The USB-SCSI and the USB-IR I have from them work well, but the network stuff has been awful, even though they're finally releasing the source code - http://www.belkin.com/uk/support/tech/gnugpl.asp Lately, I've tried Edimax, but not under Linux yet. Further, tg3 is the driver for the Broadcom Tigon3, which I thought was a wired gigabit card - I've not heard of tg3 being used for wireless. At what web address did you find that driver? More helpfully, I think there are two good options for Belkin wireless: 1. Try the bcm43xx drivers in the latest Linux kernels, or from http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ - if you do it yourself, it may involve a kernel compile. If you're not comfortable with that, look for the latest kernel from your distribution provider. These drivers are not yet perfect, but they may work for you and if they're in your distribution, it should be a fairly easy upgrade: install new kernel, reboot, configure to use the bcm43xx driver for network if it didn't pick it up automatically. Should appear as eth0, or eth1 if you have a wired network slot already (or eth2 if you have two, or... and so on). 2. Try ndiswrapper with the Windows NDIS drivers, from http://ndiswrapper.sf.net/ or maybe already packaged from your distributor. If you compile them yourselves, you will need the kernel-source package for your distribution installed and the .inf files from the CD, but it's fairly straightforward, following the instructions on the ndiswrapper site. Network device should appear as wlan0. I can't think of another way and there's not one listed on http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part.php?brandname=Belkin Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html North End, Lynn, Norfolk, England Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
