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Hello Guys,

I have kooking for a wireless pcmcia card to use on my old Thinkpad. I found a Belkin ralink F5D7010 which have a "rt2500" chip. Then on the Internet I found that Souceforge.net have a project to develop a Linux configurable driver and beta2 was released in Dec. 2005. I think I should support this effort so I bought the card.

 

I downloaded the driver and opened the Readme file and then I got the following newbie chock when reading this extract:

 

Installation instructions for the rt2x00 Modules

Minimal requirements:

- Kernel # Only 2.6.13 and higher kernels are supported.

- Wireless extensions # Your kernel should be compiled with Wireless extensions V18 or higher.

- ieee80211 stack

# rt2x00 depends on the ieee80211 stack developed by the netdev team.

# The latest ieee80211 stack can be found in the ieee80211/ folder

# in the rt2x00 module source. This is updated from the netdev-2.6

# git repository on a frequent basis.

 

Which I read: upgrade the kernel from 2.6.12-12 to 2.6.13 and possible netdev-2.6. This scares me taken into account that I have never installed a wireless network.

 

"ndiswrapper" is an alternative solution and maybe easier for me. This solution use the window driver.

Since I have only Linux 2006 on this machine can I still use "ndiswrapper"???????

A beautiful windows driver installation CD followed the card. Will "ndiswrapper" allow me to use this CD windows installation??????

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it depends on whether or not the CD already has the driver extracted. If it does, you should be able to mount it and grab the necessary files. If not, you may be able to use wine to extract them...but I've never tried to do that myself. Normally, however, with a CD, the drivers are on the CD and no extracting is necessary.

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Thanks for reply.

 

I have started the 'ndiswrapper' installation version 1.9

Page 1 (ref to ndiswrapper installation howto)

First I run "urpmi kernel-source 2.6.12-12mdk" and it showed a lot of lines like this:

kernel-doc

kernel-source-2.6

kernel-source-stripped-2.6

kernel-xen0-2.6.12.12mdk

kernel-xenU-2.6.12.12mdk

madwifi-kernel-2.6.12-12mdk

I assumed this confirmed kernel source is compiled and installed

 

Then I checked if the link show up in

[root@TOT ~]# cd /lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/build

[root@TOT build]# ls

3rdparty/  crypto/        include/  kernel/      mm/            rsbac/    usr/

arch/      Documentation/  init/    lib/        net/            scripts/

COPYING    drivers/        ipc/      MAINTAINERS  README          security/

CREDITS    fs/            kdb/      Makefile    REPORTING-BUGS  sound/

No show

 

Then I run:

[root@TOT source]# ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.12-12mdk /lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/build

[root@TOT source]# cd /lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk

[root@TOT 2.6.12-12mdk]# cd build

[root@TOT build]# ls

3rdparty/  Documentation/  ipc/                MAINTAINERS  REPORTING-BUGS  usr/

arch/      drivers/        kdb/                Makefile    rsbac/

COPYING    fs/            kernel/              mm/          scripts/

CREDITS    include/        lib/                net/        security/

crypto/    init/          linux-2.6.12-12mdk@  README      sound/

Which confirm the link exist.

 

According to howto, it says:

...(i.e you should have already compiled and build the kernel before)

Frankly I cannot remember done this.

 

As a newbie in this I prefer to go slowly because wireless internet is difficult, hoping that I avoid problem on the route making sure everything is OK.

 

 

From the above, can anyone confirm that this is done???????

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I found out the kernel source was not installed after all.

 

I tried 'urpmi kernel-source 2.6.12-12mdk and then with kernel-source-2.6.12-12mdk but this package doesn't exist.

 

I choose :

[root@ast2 arne]# urpmi kernel-source-2.6

To satisfy dependencies, the following 7 packages are going to be installed (230 MB):

binutils-2.16.91.0.2-3mdk.i586

gcc-4.0.1-5mdk.i586

glibc-devel-2.3.5-5mdk.i586

kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-15mdk.i586

libbinutils2-2.16.91.0.2-3mdk.i586

libncurses5-devel-5.4-1.20050108.1mdk.i586

make-3.80-9mdk.i586

Is this OK? (Y/n) y

Please insert the medium named "Powerpack CD1 " on device [/dev/hdc]

Press Enter when ready...

Please insert the medium named "Powerpack CD2 " on device [/dev/hdc]

Press Enter when ready...

 

    ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrakelinux/...-15mdk.i586.rpm

...retrieving failed: curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'mdk.linux.org.tw'

...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 6 or signal 0

 

installing glibc-devel-2.3.5-5mdk.i586.rpm libncurses5-devel-5.4-1.20050108.1mdk.i586.rpm gcc-4.0.1-5mdk.i586.rpm libbinutils2-2.16.91.0.2-3mdk.i586.rpm binutils-2.16.91.0.2-3mdk.i586.rpm make-3.80-9mdk.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms

Preparing...                    #############################################

      1/7: glibc-devel          #############################################

      2/7: libbinutils2          #############################################

      3/7: binutils              #############################################

      4/7: libncurses5-devel    #############################################

      5/7: gcc                  #############################################

      6/7: make                  #############################################

Installation failed, some files are missing:

    ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrakelinux/...-15mdk.i586.rpm

You may want to update your urpmi database

 

 

ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrakelinux/...-15mdk.i586.rpm

...retrieving failed: curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'mdk.linux.org.tw'

...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 6 or signal 0

 

All in all something is wrong because I messed it up. I can see that the kernel-source I called for is later than my OS.

 

How can I recover the "ship"??????????

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Sorry for late answer. My ADSL connection have been down for 5 days.

 

Yesterday I downloaded and installed the new kernel, the first in linux. I had to choose between 'kernel-2.6.12.15mdk' and 'kernel-i586-up-1GB-2.6.12.15mdk' and I took the second since my notebook has veri limited RAM.

 

Then I downloaded and installed 'kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-15mdk.i586.rpm'

 

Rebooting made me confused since the default 'stanza' did not load the new kernel but the old one. In order to load the new one I had to pick the newly created stanza opposite what "easyurpmi howto" says. Using the new kernel I feel it behave a bit differently.

 

I think I installed the wrong kernel.

 

The original installation is 2006.0. It will be nice to know what is the difference between this to kernels???? If I pick the wrong one, can I just delete it with "urpme kernel<version>" after booting back to the old kernel????

 

I have also installed 'ndiwrapper-1.9 but if I choose the wrong kernel I have to delete both kernel-source and ndiswrapper and reinstall both???????

:unsure:

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After installing the new kernel you must add it to lilo.conf, make it the default and run /sbin/lilo to apply changes. No need to do that manually, as MCC/boot section can do all that for you rather easily.

Picking between 'kernel-2.6.12.15mdk' and 'kernel-i586-up-1GB-2.6.12.15mdk' isn't that important- both will work OK, but the second one should be a bit more responsive with your hardware (laptop PII/266 with 230M RAM).

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Thanks' for reply scarecrow,

Yes, I have made the new kernel default.

 

I have another new line in lilo:

2612i586up1GB-15 (/boot/vmlinux-2.6.12-15mdk-i586-up-1GB)

 

Does this line have to be there or can I delete it??????

Will the new kernel-source and ndiswrapper work OK without any other changes????

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I cannot find driver for my belkin card on WLAN Adapter Chip-set Repository in wiki.

 

Then the only option is use the windows driver on the install CD-rom which come with the card.

 

According to ndiswrapper howto that is a risky business.

 

Advice please.

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This is the output:

05:00.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)

Subsystem: Belkin: Unknown device 701a

Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-

Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

Latency: 64

Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9

Region 0: Memory at 0ec00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)

Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

 

 

I cannot see any serial number. Any tip??????

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I use Mandriva 2006, and ndiswrapper that came with it, and it works OK with my card. I didn't know if there were problems with it!

 

Anyway, mine is Atheros chip based, and isn't listed on the ndiswrapper site either. However, I use the Windows XP driver for my card, and it works fine with ndiswrapper no problems. I also use wpa_supplication to use the WPA_PSK options for additional security on my access point.

 

As long as you have the Windows XP driver for your card, I don't think you should have too many problems getting it to work. Mine worked OK and it wasn't listed on their site.

 

I followed the ndiswrapper installation wiki, and it worked, I can only suggest trying that and see how you get on with it. Sorry if that's not much help.

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