Re: wireless still

Mr Flipflops wrote:
oasisoflife wrote:


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Please can someone help I am tearing my hair out here. I have been trying
to set up this damm Belkin wireless network card. so far I have managed
to get ndiswrapper to display bcmw15 driver present , hardware present
.
I have one light permanently on in the I type dhcpcd wlan0 and get no
error , however it still wont connect to internet I have written to this
newsgroup a few times now but didn’t get reply last post . Please help.
Thanks Paul


We don't know which card you are talking about... model number?



Its the Belkin Wireless notebook network card F5d7010xx I have done a
scan and Suse recognises the card it just wont access the internet .


So, you looked at the site below, and used the drivers which are known to
work for whatever chipset it has?

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List#B

I had a Belkin F5D7001, which used the bcmwl5a.inf. Once you have the right
driver installed, using the right version of ndiswrapper, and have done a
modprobe ndiswrapper, you can configure your card with Yast. There should
be no need to run dhcpcd manually. Just set up the detected card as wlan0
(default), and you're off. It might also help, if you take down any other
interface you have (such as eth0), so that wlan0 is the only one in use. That way, the default route in the routing table refers to wlan0.

The other thing to do, is to goto sysconfig in YaST and set ndiswrapper to
load on boot, otherwise your interface will not come up on a restart.

I got fed up with my Belkin, and went to a Ralink RT61 chipset (Cnet
CWP-854). The Belkin would randomly disconnect every so often in winblows
and Linux. The Ralink is solid.

Rgds

Stuart


Thanks Stuart ,I was begining to think it was maybe a driver issue. I will try what you have suggested, if this doesent work then maybe I will replace the card.The Belkin has been very reliable under Windows. Cheers for your time Paul
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