santner Posted October 5, 2005 Report Share Posted October 5, 2005 I recently purchased this wireless network card and have verified in windows that it does in fact work. Here is the problem, when I plug the card into my laptop nothing happens. No lights blink, the log files do not indicate that anything has happened...nothing. With the card plugged in here is the output of 'cardctl ident' Socket 0: no product info available Socket 1: product info: "Texas Instruments", "UltraMedia Smart Card Adapter", "1.0" manfid: 0x0097, 0x1620 Something else that is interesting is that lspci actually recognizes the card! Also, using harddrake I can tell that the system does recognize the pcmcia controllers. Finally, as I said earlier the log files do not appear to change after inserting the card. Maybe I am looking at the wrong files but when I type 'dmesg | tail' on the command line and then insert the card nothing changes. Any help to get me onto the next obstacle (installing the driver) would be greatly appreciated. [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted October 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 I checked in HardDrake last night and noticed that under network the Belkin F5D6020 wireless card is detected! So why doesn't 'cardctl ident' show anything with it plugged into the pcmcia slot? Can anyone help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted October 6, 2005 Report Share Posted October 6, 2005 Do you have hotplug enabled in your services? If you leave the card in the machine and reboot, does it pick it up then? If you do get it working after this, then you can check on mandrivalinux.org to find out if it's supported in the HCL, and if not, then you can always download and use ndiswrapper along with the WinXP drivers and it should work that way too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
santner Posted October 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2005 Just to give an update. I was able to determine that my F5D6020 used a Readtek rtl8180 chipset by entering my FCCID on my card here: https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/cf/eas/r...nericSearch.cfm Then I downloaded the linux drivers for the chipset here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtl8180-sa2400 Finally, drumroll please....It works! This was also a nice link as well: http://wiki.blagblagblag.org/Belkin_Wirele...D6020_Version_3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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