[Nottingham] re: Belkin wireless USB stick and Linux (Hazel Windle)

[Jim Moore]

A little googling brings...

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Originally Posted by NdisWrapper Wiki
# Card: Belkin F5D7050 (USB 2.0 Adaptor 802.11g 54Mbps)

* Chipset: Conexant (PrismUSB)
* usbid: 050D:7050
* Driver: Install the drivers for windows included in the box and fetch 
the .inf and .sys fyles from the installation directory.
* Other: linux-2.6.9: Blocks Linux momentarily when another device is plugged 
into the same USB Hub, more precisely a 1.1 memory stick.
* Other: SuSE 9.1, kernel-2.6.8-default (kernel-of-the-day 22 Dec. 2004): 
1.0rc1 with bknUSB.inf from the vendor CD and WEP security works quite 
stable. The procedure as described in WiKi/SuSE 9.1. Professional.
* Other: SuSE 9.1, kernel-2.6.x-smp: doesn't work, 'modprobe ndiswrapper' 
freezes the system.

# Card: Belkin F5D7050 (USB 2.0 Adaptor 802.11g 54Mbps)

* Chipset: RT2500
* usbid: 050d:7050
* Driver: Install the drivers for windows included in the box and fetch 
the .inf files from the installation directory.
* Other: Works fine. When entering in resume mode, freeze the system.

# Card: Belkin F5D7050E (USB 2.0 Adaptor 802.11g 54Mbps)

* Chipset: Accton Technology Corp.
* usbid: 083a:f503
* Driver: Install the drivers for windows included in the box and fetch 
the .inf files from the installation directory.
* Other: Suse 10.1, kernel 2.6.16.13-4-default, ndiswrapper 1.20rc1
* Other: Works fine. Stops working from time to time requiring an 
unplug-replug. 

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There you are. Three different chips for the same model. Confused? You will 
be. FWIW, wireless has always been a problem in Linux because of this.

NB: I attempted, and succeeded, to install a Conexant/Prism USB wireless model 
(Belkin 54g) on SuSE 9.2 using the native Prism chipset support. Only problem 
I had was I had a blind wifi router, so the connection couldn't be tested 
properly, but it did manage to obtain an IP address.
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