Need Belkin F5D7050 USB Wi-Fi adaptor driver

[pythoncoder]

I've got everything I want working with Puppy except for wi-fi, which seems to be proving supremely difficult. I've been trying to install a Belkin F5D7050 USB adaptor. I've attempted to use ndiswrapper with the drivers on the CD and I've also tried the Ralink RT2570 driver rt2x00-2.0.0-b3.tar.gz, in both cases without success.

I've no objection to buying a new adaptor provided the installation is reasonably straightforward. Ideally one from one of the major manufacturers which is likely to be available in the UK. Has anyone any recommendations for a USB or PCI 802.11g (or 802.11b) adapter which is easy to install?

Pete

[rarsa]

Puppy comes with the orinoco driver, so any adapter with a chipset supported by that driver should work OK.

I've seen a couple of threads discussing your chipset. Have you read them?

[tempestuous]

The "serialmonkey rt2x00" drivers do work well, but the particular version you downloaded will only compile on a 2.6 kernel.

Puppy-compatible Ralink driver package is here - http://mymirrors.homelinux.org/puppy/wireless/
Download ralink-cvs.tar.gz, ralink_README, and ralink-connect.

[pythoncoder]

I've now tried that driver, with the following results. It doesn't seem to create the ra0 device. Any thoughts?

Pete

# cd /
# tar -zxvf ralink-cvs.tar.gz
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/ralink/rt2500.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/ralink/rt2570.o
./lib/modules/2.4.29/net/wireless/ralink/rt2400.o
./usr/sbin/iwpriv
# depmod
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.29/sound/oss/viaudiocombo.o.gz
# modprobe rt2570
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:63:DF:7D:69
inet addr:192.168.0.11 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6046 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7519 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1020568 (996.6 KiB) TX bytes:6052338 (5.7 MiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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[tempestuous]

1. I assumed you had correctly identified your device ... but perhaps not? Maybe you have the older F5D7050 ver. 1000 which has a PrismGT chipset? Run "lsusb" and do a Google search on the ID numbers you see.
If you have a USB-PrismGT, ndiswrapper is your only option.

or 2. Maybe the driver needs to "coaxed" into life. After "modprobe rt2570", run "ifconfig rausb0 up".

[pythoncoder]

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately lsusb simply produces:
# lsusb
bash: lsusb: command not found
#

I am certain that I have the Ralink chipset. The device is brand new, and when I (successfully) tested it under Windows 2000, Device Manager identified it as a Ralink device. It didn't provide a precise part number, however.

Pete

[tempestuous]

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

This will return: Vendor=1234 ProdID=5678

Then do a Google search for "1234:5678"

[tempestuous]

pythoncoder,
Your Belkin F5D7050 (v3000) will now work in Puppy2 with the rt73 module contained in ralink-legacy.pup from http://www.dotpups.de/dotpups/Wifi/wireless-drivers/