Getting Belkin Fd7051 wireless USB stick to work

[Cliffy]

I just downloaded tahrpup and have never used linux before so I apologize in advance if I do not understand things.

I have a Belkin FD7051 usb wireless internet stick and the connect wizard does not seem to work.

I did try the ndiswrapper but do not understand how to use it.

The computer has Windows XP on it that the stick worked with.
I did set the BIOS to boot from the usb stick.

There is a list of modules that the connect wizard gives, will one of them work with the FD7051 stick?

Thanks for any help.

[Semme]

Welcome Cliffy. There should be a *terminal* or command prompt type icon on your desktop..

Tell us the vendor and product ID of your device:

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cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

Or the "idvendor/idproduct" *numbers* here:

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lsusb -v

[bigpup]

Welcome to Puppy land!!

You will need to learn how Linux and Puppy Linux works, but it is not that different from what you are familiar with.
Mostly it is learning how to use the programs.

and the connect wizard does not seem to work.

This is not really telling use anything.
You are our eyes. All we know is what you tell use.
You do what?
You see what?
Details.

Try this:
Illustrated Guide to setting up a wireless network connection.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65346
Follow this guide.
If you get to a step that does not work.
What step?
What do you see?

You could just be doing something wrong.

[Cliffy]

I clicked on the terminal button, typed in what you wrote go tthis.

in the id product line it says
0x0711 Belkin F5D7051 v3000 802.11g

[Cliffy]

I took a photo of the screen if that helps.

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[rcrsn51]

I cannot find a Linux driver for your F5D7051 v3, so ndiswrapper is your only choice.

If you have trouble following the instructions in the Wizard, look at PWF. It has detailed help with ndiswrapper.

[rufwoof]

When I first started with Puppy around 9 months ago I had similar problems with a Belkin F5D6050 and had to load a PET to add to the kernel. Someone kindly pointed me towards http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_part ... ame=Belkin and from that list it looks like yours might be 'not supported' ???

[Cliffy]

Bigpup -
I click on the 'connect' icon, then 'wired or wireless lan', then 'network wizard', then 'load modules', I can not see a module for the Belkin F5d7051 so I then click on the more tab, Then click on the 'auto probe' It gives me a module I click 'ok' but it does not connect, click 'unload', "more tab" and "auto probe" repeated this about 10 times, each time it finds a module that does not work.

[rcrsn51]

I click on the 'connect' icon, then 'wired or wireless lan', then 'network wizard', then 'load modules', I can not see a module for the Belkin F5d7051 so I then click on the more tab, Then click on the 'auto probe' It gives me a module I click 'ok' but it does not connect, click 'unload', "more tab" and "auto probe" repeated this about 10 times, each time it finds a module that does not work.

That behaviour is a relic from the early days of Puppy where it sometimes had trouble loading the right module.

These days, Puppy is VERY good at doing this. If the kernel has a driver for your device, it will be automatically loaded 99.9% of the time. If not, you have three choices.

1. Try a newer Puppy with a newer kernel and more driver support.

2. There is a Linux driver somewhere and a community member can compile it for your Puppy.

3. Ndiswrapper.

[Cliffy]

rcrsn51 - it is Tahrpup 6.0

I have the driver for it on my computer for the windows xp, it would be on the harddrive.
I am runnin the "puppy linux" from the usb.

It came with Ndiswrapper, I just don't see how to get the driver off of the harddrive.

[rcrsn51]

Do you still have the setup CD that came with the stick?

[tempestuous]

Yes, your wifi dongle contains the Broadcom BCM4326U chipset, which currently has no native Linux driver support.

I just don't see how to get the driver off of the harddrive.

Download the official driver (Version 3xxx) from -
http://www.belkin.com/us/support-articl ... leNum=4524
The downloaded file will be f5d7051v3.exe

If you can connect your Puppy computer to the web via ethernet that would be ideal, otherwise you can download this file while running Windows.
Now boot to Puppy, copy the downloaded file somewhere convenient such as /root/my-documents
Then uncompress the driver file with these 2 commands -

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cd /root/my-documents
unzip f5d7051v3.exe

Now the 32bit driver will be in a sub-folder called "XP_2K". These are the 3 files:
bcm43xx.cat
ndiswdm.inf
ndiswdm.sys

Now run the Network Wizard and specify this location when configuring ndiswrapper.
Don't make the newbie mistake of assuming you need just the "inf" file. ndiswrapper requires all 3 files.

[Cliffy]

rcrsn - I no longer have the disk and downloaded it for xp last time I needed to.
tempestuous - thanks for the info.

[Semme]

Good! Now take that info, act on it and let's hear some positive feedback..

[Cliffy]

tempestuous - I downloaded the driver you recommend using a windows 7 computer, I put it on the usb stick the puppy Linux is on. How do I move it to cd /root/my-documents ? Thanks for everyone's help

[tempestuous]

Boot Puppy. Plug in the USB stick, after a second or two a new drive icon will appear on the desktop. Click it once, to mount. This will also open a ROX window displaying its contents.
Open a second ROX window, navigate to /root/my-documents
Now just drag-and-drop.

[Cliffy]

Ok I moved it to my documents now How do I unzip it?

[Semme]

Reread his post.

[Cliffy]

Sorry for my lack of understanding.

I did get it into my documents.
In ndiswrapper it gives me an error saying it should be an inf file and it is a exe file.

What is it I need to do?

[Semme]

Rt-clk an empty space inside the same directory as the executable >> window >> terminal here.

Type: unzip f5d7051v3.exe

Those three files are now in Driver/XP_2K.

Continue with his directions.