Belkin Wireless LAN card
- From: Bernard Chan <cbkihong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 28 Nov 2006 12:02:11 GMT
Hello,
I just bought a Belkin F5D9010 (Wireless G Plus MIMO Notebook PCMCIA Card)
in Canada for use in my hotel. I managed to find the RT61 driver
which is used for the chipset from http://www.ralink.com.tw. Things have
been working quite well and I could get on the hotel wireless network with
the card.
One odd thing though. When I tried the Linksys Wireless-G notebook adaptor
earlier, the interface would be automatically brought up. However, with
this Belkin card, I needed to manually
ifconfig ra0 up
ifup ra0
by logging in to the console to bring up the network by DHCP. For both
cards I needed to use third-party drivers, and I set them up manually. I
have no idea why the Belkin card refuses to be up with a mere "ifup ra0",
while the Linksys one can. This makes booting it on startup by the usual
Fedora network startup scripts impossible. The system is FC6. The kernel
is as shipped, but the RT61 installation requires a kernel module
compilation as part of the process.
Any insights will be much appreciated.
Regards,
Bernard Chan.
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