Belkin USB wifi hangs after some minutes use? (SOLVED)

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zigbert · #21 Post by **zigbert** » Thu 06 Jul 2006, 06:17

I'm sorry to tell, but "pci=biosirq" didn't have any effect. modprobe rt73 gives no light in the belkin card, and still no wireless when ifconfig -a.

tempestuous · #22 Post by **tempestuous** » Thu 06 Jul 2006, 10:14

OK, we must consider this problem unsolvable ... but if you have a copy of Puppy 1.0.4-1.0.9 it would be good to know if the driver I compiled for the 2.4.29 kernel works. If so, we would know for certain that the rt73 driver is incompatible with Puppy2's kernel.

kirk · #23 Post by **kirk** » Fri 07 Jul 2006, 04:07

I've got a Belkin fd7050 V2011. It's got the rt2570 chipset. On this one the light only comes on during activity TX or RX. Ralink released a new driver for the RT73 on 7/4. I compiled it on Puppy 2.01. Might be worth a try. Download and extract the folder where you like. Click on Module_load to load the module. Open a terminal and type iwconfig and see if you have a rausb0.

zigbert · #24 Post by **zigbert** » Fri 07 Jul 2006, 07:28

kirk wrote: Ralink released a new driver for the RT73 on 7/4

Give me some time now, and I will test the new rt73 driver and rt73 with 2.4 kernel on puppy1.

zigbert · #25 Post by **zigbert** » Fri 07 Jul 2006, 08:36

tempestuous wrote:but if you have a copy of Puppy 1.0.4-1.0.9 it would be good to know if the driver I compiled for the 2.4.29 kernel works

I loaded up my old puppy 1.08rc1, extracted the tar.gz to dir /. After this I was not able to load the rt73 module. modprobe rt73 gives error about module not exist. I checked that all 5 files in tar.gz arrived at defined directory.

kirk wrote:Click on Module_load to load the module. Open a terminal and type iwconfig and see if you have a rausb0

Thanks for reply. I followed your instructions and...Nope...no rausb0. Iwconfig shows only no wireless extentions.

Tell me, - Who is underdeveloped? - Is it me, is it Acer, is it ralink, is it puppy?

...I'm very happy with my Puppy 201. Thanks to everybody working on it. If this issue isn't solved this time, its time will come. That is why I'm a true, happy Puppy user. Puppy really fills my needs. - Ok. maybe not wireless 100%, but yeah, I'm happy!!!

kirk · #26 Post by **kirk** » Fri 07 Jul 2006, 11:43

Zigbert,

What's the model number and version number of your belkin usb card? The model number should be on the back. The version number might be on the back, it is on the box if you still have it.

kirk · #27 Post by **kirk** » Fri 07 Jul 2006, 12:36

Never mind the previous post, The problem is that the device ID for belkin is not in the ralink driver. Go to Start - Control panel - Usbview and post the Vendor ID and the Product ID.

tempestuous · #28 Post by **tempestuous** » Fri 07 Jul 2006, 13:57

zigbert,
after uncompressing rt73-k2.4.29.tar.gz from the uppermost directory, you must run "depmod" so your system knows where to find the new driver, before you can use modprobe. (With my dotpup for Puppy2, this step is automated)

... but I think kirk is on the right track with this pci-id number thing.

You never mentioned the model of your Belkin adaptor, we only know that the Windows rt73.inf file works with ndiswrapper.
I will take a guess that it's F5D7050 v3000.

zigbert · #29 Post by **zigbert** » Fri 07 Jul 2006, 14:27

Vendor ID: 050d
Product Id: 705a

zigbert · #30 Post by **zigbert** » Fri 07 Jul 2006, 14:53

tempestuous, thanks for depmod. But unfortunatly the result is still negative in 1.08rc1 with 2.4 kernel. Modprobe OK, but no wireless extension.

tempestuous · #31 Post by **tempestuous** » Fri 07 Jul 2006, 16:02

Yes, 050d:705a = Belkin F5D7050 v3000.

And yes, kirk was right about the manf-id not being defined in the driver, see here http://61.222.76.235/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2329

So this is the latest RT2571W/RT2671 (rt73) driver, v1.0.3.6 with manf-id hack. This should work!
I suggest you delete /etc/Wireless/RT73STA/rt73sta.dat and use the more conventional iwconfig method of configuration. rt73sta.dat is now in /root/my-applications in case you need it.

EDIT July 9 2006 - removed rt73-legacy3.pup
This driver is now contained in ralink-legacy.pup from http://www.dotpups.de/dotpups/Wifi/wireless-drivers/

zigbert · #32 Post by **zigbert** » Fri 07 Jul 2006, 20:54

It's WORKING!!!
I'm now excited to if my card can hold the line. Maybe I can submit this post without rebooting...

tempestuous, you must be a patient man.

thanks
Sigmund

zigbert · #33 Post by **zigbert** » Sat 08 Jul 2006, 07:36

I still on the line after 2 hours constantly use. That has never happend before....But strange things are happening? According to Blinky, I'm constantly recieving bytes. Happends immediatly after connection. Even if I don't use the connection? How can I see what is arriving?

kirk · #34 Post by **kirk** » Sat 08 Jul 2006, 20:02

My ralink rt2570 does the same thing, but my rtl8180 is displayed fine.

zigbert · #35 Post by **zigbert** » Sun 09 Jul 2006, 07:47

I'll guess it's ok then.

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