I have a Belkin Wireless G Desktop Network Card that is not being recognised by Puppy.
Windows Drivers: http://www.belkin.com/support/article/? ... 001&scid=0
Any help appreciated
Belkin Wireless G Network Card not recognised
Belkin Wireless G Network Card not recognised
Cheers,
[b]LOF[/b]
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[b]LOF[/b]
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First of all you have to know the chipset for your wireless card. Then you can find a native driver or if doesn´t exist you will have to use ndiswraper.
In that page that you post there are a lot of versions for your wireless card and have diferent chipsets. ¿What version do you have?.
Maybe the output of the comand lspci could be interesting.
Regards.
In that page that you post there are a lot of versions for your wireless card and have diferent chipsets. ¿What version do you have?.
Maybe the output of the comand lspci could be interesting.
Regards.
load drivers rt2500
Hi,
by looking at your windows drivers you can find out which chipset you have I think your is PCMCIA and should be Chipset RaLink RT2500.
some link explaining this is here: http://opensource.bureau-cornavin.com/belkin/index.html
by looking at your windows drivers you can find out which chipset you have I think your is PCMCIA and should be Chipset RaLink RT2500.
some link explaining this is here: http://opensource.bureau-cornavin.com/belkin/index.html
There are two diferent chipsets for pci&pcmcia ralink cards. The old rt2500 and the new rt61.
But maybe your card would have chipset broadcom or atheros. see this page:
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part ... ame=Belkin
Then the first is to know the chipset.
If it's rt2500 you can load it with:
And if it's the new ralink rt61:
Too is important that LOF tell us which version of Puppy is he using; and if it has the zdrv file.
regards and sorry for my bad english.
But maybe your card would have chipset broadcom or atheros. see this page:
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part ... ame=Belkin
Then the first is to know the chipset.
If it's rt2500 you can load it with:
Code: Select all
modprobe rt2500
Code: Select all
modprobe rt61
regards and sorry for my bad english.
My Belkin Bcm4306 wireless pci card didn't work - now OK
If it's useful for you developers, here is my experience:
I've got a Belkin wireless pci card, pupscan reports it like this:
"pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x14e4 device 0x4320
Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller"
This card (sold with the name "Wireless desktop G network card- model F5D7001") works perfectly with ndiswrapper tool, and I reported in this forum some months ago my success.
Now I tried to use the 2.14 PuppyCD to see if bcm43xx support works, but with no chance.
The driver is automatically loaded at startup (pfix=ram) but there is no way to connect my pci wireless card to my Belkin router. When I test bcm43xx driver, it sees my card as 'eth0', but it doesn't find any wireless network available. I'm not using encryption nor MAC filtering. My SSID is hidden, but I correctly wrote it in 'autoconnect' and 'template' profiles.
I tried to unload and then load again bcm43xx driver with no chance.
If I unload bcm43xx and load bcmwl5.inf with ndiswrapper, the pci card is seen as 'wlan0' and it works perfectly. Now I'm writing this post with ndiswrapper.
If it's useful, when I load ndiswrapper the leds on the pci card flash, when I load bcm43xx drivers they are off, even when I'm searching for an alive network through the 'test eth0' button in network setup.
EDITED: er... Maybe I was a little in a hurry, but I have just read in the forum something about a bcm43xx-firmware I didn't know of . I downloaded the pet package, saved it in a floppy, rebooted, and when I was in Puppy desktop again, I mounted the floppy and installed the bcm43xx-firmware.pet package. Then I configured my network with the right SSID, gateway, DNS and IP as always. Guess what driver am I successfully using now ?
I've got a Belkin wireless pci card, pupscan reports it like this:
"pci bus 0x0002 cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x14e4 device 0x4320
Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller"
This card (sold with the name "Wireless desktop G network card- model F5D7001") works perfectly with ndiswrapper tool, and I reported in this forum some months ago my success.
Now I tried to use the 2.14 PuppyCD to see if bcm43xx support works, but with no chance.
The driver is automatically loaded at startup (pfix=ram) but there is no way to connect my pci wireless card to my Belkin router. When I test bcm43xx driver, it sees my card as 'eth0', but it doesn't find any wireless network available. I'm not using encryption nor MAC filtering. My SSID is hidden, but I correctly wrote it in 'autoconnect' and 'template' profiles.
I tried to unload and then load again bcm43xx driver with no chance.
If I unload bcm43xx and load bcmwl5.inf with ndiswrapper, the pci card is seen as 'wlan0' and it works perfectly. Now I'm writing this post with ndiswrapper.
If it's useful, when I load ndiswrapper the leds on the pci card flash, when I load bcm43xx drivers they are off, even when I'm searching for an alive network through the 'test eth0' button in network setup.
EDITED: er... Maybe I was a little in a hurry, but I have just read in the forum something about a bcm43xx-firmware I didn't know of . I downloaded the pet package, saved it in a floppy, rebooted, and when I was in Puppy desktop again, I mounted the floppy and installed the bcm43xx-firmware.pet package. Then I configured my network with the right SSID, gateway, DNS and IP as always. Guess what driver am I successfully using now ?
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