Hi everyone.
I have been away from Linux for far too long. I was having withdrawals when a friend gave me a full unregistered copy of Linspire 5.0.
I hastily installed this onto my laptop (which is running a 1.2GHz VIA C3 processor). It installed in super quick time, and everything was recognised and working OK, even my USB card reader.
The Ethernet connection was setup without any help from me, and setting up the email account was simple.
The one thing I haven't been able to get working yet though is my Belkin USB WiFi stick. I have a Belkin WiFi /Cable router in the ´work room´. The WiFi worked ok when I had winxp on it, so I know it´s all ok.
Any ideas as to how to get it working would help please.
Many thanks
Peter
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:13:52PM +0100, Peter Hunter wrote:
The one thing I haven't been able to get working yet though is my Belkin USB WiFi stick. I have a Belkin WiFi /Cable router in the ´work room´. The WiFi worked ok when I had winxp on it, so I know it´s all ok.
Any ideas as to how to get it working would help please.
Heya,
What's the model number of the USB wifi stick? A quick bit of searching makes me think that it might be an RA2500 chipset (see here:) http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
A bit more searching reveals that the RT2500 isn't supported by Linspire but I'm sure that there will be guides on how to get it working if it is that chipset. If you can't find any obvious model numbers on the stick then you might want to try typing the command "lsusb" into a terminal and noting the Device ID numbers as these will help us work out what chipset it is.
Thanks Adam
Peter Hunter wrote:
The one thing I haven't been able to get working yet though is my Belkin USB WiFi stick. I have a Belkin WiFi /Cable router in the ´work room´. The WiFi worked ok when I had winxp on it, so I know it´s all ok.
A common way to get Belkin stuff to work is to use ndiswrapper (ggogle will find their home page and they may well be a linspire rpm for it). This allows you to put a wrapper round the windows drivers for the device and use them on your Linux box. It needs a far bit of command line stuff so if you decide to go this route let me know and I'll run through how I got my belkin card to work on my Zenwalk (Slackware derivative) box.
Ian
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