Belkin wireless network card driver problems

[Guest Vonshin]

I have a Belkin Wireless PCI Card - F5D6001. I don't know how to install the driver. For my eth0 card, it the card was an option when i came to net device. When try to configure a wirless connection, I have to go to manually load a driver and none of the drivers there seem to work, I choose an amtel wireless pci card driver (belkin's website said they use amtel divers) a window pops up really quick then closes, and I am back at the net device configuration window, still with only manually load a driver. I get no where, the cofiguration tool just keeps going in circles. I searched belkin in the board and there where tuns of hits, so maybe someone had a similar problem.... I just switched to linux a few weeks ago, so please bear with me, seeing that I am a total noob.

[devries]

Open a console, and type lspci -v (if you get command not found install the pciutils package). Look for your card and chipset in the output. Now use google to find the module (=driver) for your card.

[Guest Vonshin]

ok still having connection problems... I installed the Bel6001.inf and Bel6001.sys using ndiswrapper. I set up a wireless connection with wlan0 and it won't work, the only thing that works is eth0. When I went back to check ndiswrapper and had it list the devices it said

installed ndis drivers:

bel6001 driver present, hardware present

bel6001.inf invalid device

bel6001.sys invalid device

 

So I deleted bel6001.inf and bel6001.sys. Now I just get the first 2 lines of that code, so I assume it is good. When I run

iwlist wlan0 scan

I get

wlan0 scan completed

Cell 01 - Adress: 00:0F:66:DD:2F:F1

              ESSID ; "Taylor Home"

              Protocol : IEEE 802.11b

              Mode : Managed

              Frequency : 2.437GHz

              Quality : 0/100  Signal level : -71 dBm   Noise level : -256 dBm

              Encryption key : off (for now)

              Bit Rate : 1Mb/s

              Bit Rate : 2Mb/s

              Bit Rate : 5.5Mb/s

              Bit Rate : 11Mb/s

              Bit Rate : 18Mb/s

              Bit Rate : 24Mb/s

              Bit Rate : 36Mb/s

              Bit Rate : 54Mb/s

              Extra: bcn_int=100

              Extra: atim=25996

 

When I run

dhclient wlan0

I get

...sit0: unknown hardware adress type 776

...Listening on...

...Sending on...

...DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0...

(a couple of these with different intervals)

...No DHCPOFFERS recieved

No working leases in persitent database - sleeping

 

Thanks.

Edited April 5, 2005 by Vonshin

[Qchem]

What do you get from iwconfig?

[Guest Vonshin]

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:off/any Nickname:"192.168.1.1"

Mode:Auto Frequency:2.462GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00

Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=0/3

RTS thr=2432 B Fragment thr=2432 B

Encryption key:off

Power Management:off

Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-94 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm

Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0

Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

[Qchem]

I'd try setting the ESSID for the card, I'd assume theres a mandrake wizard for that - if not post back and we'll point you in the direction of the file that needs editing.

 

It's probably worth checking that your router is set up to assign an IP address via dhcp too, thats caught me out before.

[Guest Vonshin]

I'd try setting the ESSID for the card, I'd assume theres a mandrake wizard for that - if not post back and we'll point you in the direction of the file that needs editing.

 

It's probably worth checking that your router is set up to assign an IP address via dhcp too, thats caught me out before.

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ESSID is set to broadcast... I donno what that means. Yes the dhcp is the settings bc I have a laptop already connected to it that works fine... I have an idea for what the problem is, when I go to configure the device it doesn't show the wlan0 like it does when I run through the ndiswrapper stuff. Is there some way I can write it in terminal so that it will run the ndiswrapper config at startup?

[Qchem]

You might want to take a look at this entry in our tips and tricks section.