Peter Hunter wrote:
Just a follow up from my last message. I have done a bit of searching and found that I can use something called NDISWrapper (as mentioned in an earlier reply), I'm not too sure how to use it though.
Anyway, it seems that this comes pre loaded in Linspire 5.
I have looked on the CD, in the drivers folder, for the Belkin F5D7050, for the .inf file. It seems to be listed as rt73???.inf. There is also a .sys file.
Before I attempt to use this can someone tell me HOW to do it please?
From a console as root do:
ndiswrapper -l
should give a list of installed drivers - should be none at this point.
Then do ndiswrapper -i rt73whatever.inf
should install the driver. Repeat ndiswrapper -l to check it is there and the hardware is seen. Next do:
ndiswrapper -?? can't remember the letter but it is the one that creates an alias for modprobe - if you just do ndiswrapper on its own it will list all the switch letters. The alias is usually wlan0
The rest is distro dependent - I can tell ypu what to do in Slackware but you'll need to check your local distro expert for your own version of this. Basicaly you need to modify some start up scripts in /etc/rc.d. In Slackware I do the following:
Add a line to rc.modules -
/sbin/modprobe wlan0
This loads the driver. Add a line to rc.inet1
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid "any" mode managed
That configures the card to connect to any wireless network it can find, Lastly, add a line to rc.local
/sbin/dhcpcd wlan0
which actually connects the card to the network and gets ip addresses sorted.
HTH
Ian