Belkin F5D7050 version 4000 USB wireless card

[pate4ever]

Hello everyone I am new at this. I have been reading for hours and hours about this problem and I wanted to make a post about it. I received the Belkin F5D750 version 4000 wireless USB for free and I am trying to make it work on Dapper. After hours of reading I came to the realization that I have to get drivers specifically for the version you are using.

I have used:
sudo ndiswrapper -i rt73.inf

In order to install the drivers for version 3. This method works for a version 4000 card, kinda. It says that my hardware and drivers are recognized, but i when i use iwconfig I do not find any wireless connections.
the drivers for F5D750 version 3000 are here: http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php...e=post&id=4193

In order to correct this I have tried, to no avail to use the VERSION 4000 drivers from the disk. There is one problem ... these drivers have no .ini extension so I don't think ndiswrapper recognizes them as drivers.
The files are
BLKWGU.CAT
BLKWGU2K.sys
BLKWGU9X.sys
Driver.2k
Driver.98
Driver.ME

they can be downloaded from belkin's website, remember: version 4000 drivers
http://www.belkin.com/support/downlo...d=F5D7050&mode



So the big question is it possible to install a Belkin F5D7050 version
4000 driver or do can I configure the drivers from version 3000 to work
for me? Or, is it impossible to even use this version 4000 adapter?

Please help,
pate4ever

[Layman's terms]

Hey, pate4ever,

I'm also brand new to Ubuntu and have a Belkin F5D7050 v4000, and I've been doing some research of my own on the subject.


Ndiswrapper has a list of all the wireless hardware that it supports on its sourceforge wiki (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List)

To save you some time, I've listed the Belkin F5D7050 devices that appear on that list below.

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 F5D7050B (USB 2.0 Adaptor 802.11b/g 54Mbps) ("version 3000uk" only tested at this time) Chipset: RT73 usbid: 050d:705A Driver: Install the drivers for windows included in the box and fetch the .inf files from the installation directory. Other: Works fine with WPA(PSK-TKIP) using wpa_supplicant on ubuntu 6.06 with ndiswrapper driver. Will freeze the system if removed without ifdown and/or ifconfig down on the device, and even then sometimes. Even though WPA works, I have not yet managed to succeed in using with WEP! 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.

My other research shows that the F5D7050 v4000 does not correspond to any of the devices above. The internal chipset of the v4000 is the zd1211b chipset from Zydas. I could be wrong, but I would interpret this to mean that the v4000 will not work with the current version of ndiswrapper. (But hey, I'm a newbie, so what do I know? )


All hope is not lost, however, because there is an open source community at http://zd1211.ath.cx/ that is devoted to creating a native Linux driver for zd1211 and zd1211b. They do list the Belkin F5D7050 v4000 as supported hardware, but this is where I run into problems. I installed the driver they have and am proud to say that I can now see the Belkin device in Network Manager listed as wlan0. But I still can't connect. I am able to see the surrounding networks using

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan

but DHCP isn't working so I never get assigned an IP address to my adapter (and thus can't connect to the Internet).

If you get this driver installed and manage to have success connecting to your network, please let me know what you did to resolve any problems.

[blackest_knight]

yes it is the zydas chip set and you can compile a driver for it the version 2 and version 3 used ralink (a lot easier to get going) I have version 1 and nobodys saying if i remember correctly the zydas source needs a small modification to take care of the b in the chipset version.
in other words keep looking you may be successful

[werdna5225]

How do you install the windows cd to your linux??? Is that what I'm supposed to do?

[dracule]

you download the linux zydas drivers, and just compile them, simple as that. worked for me. what is strange is that the very detailed and helpful guid that I used, is no longer up...

[FrodoB]

Guide:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...cs%2FDevice%29

[st_judas]

Originally Posted by Layman's terms Hey, pate4ever, I'm also brand new to Ubuntu and have a Belkin F5D7050 v4000, and I've been doing some research of my own on the subject. Ndiswrapper has a list of all the wireless hardware that it supports on its sourceforge wiki (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List) To save you some time, I've listed the Belkin F5D7050 devices that appear on that list below. My other research shows that the F5D7050 v4000 does not correspond to any of the devices above. The internal chipset of the v4000 is the zd1211b chipset from Zydas. I could be wrong, but I would interpret this to mean that the v4000 will not work with the current version of ndiswrapper. (But hey, I'm a newbie, so what do I know? ) All hope is not lost, however, because there is an open source community at http://zd1211.ath.cx/ that is devoted to creating a native Linux driver for zd1211 and zd1211b. They do list the Belkin F5D7050 v4000 as supported hardware, but this is where I run into problems. I installed the driver they have and am proud to say that I can now see the Belkin device in Network Manager listed as wlan0. But I still can't connect. I am able to see the surrounding networks using sudo iwlist wlan0 scan but DHCP isn't working so I never get assigned an IP address to my adapter (and thus can't connect to the Internet). If you get this driver installed and manage to have success connecting to your network, please let me know what you did to resolve any problems.

First unplug your USB adapter.

Download the driver:
http://zd1211.ath.cx/
( currently: http://zd1211.ath.cx/download/zd1211-driver-r83.tgz )

Then just follow this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...zd1211b_driver)

The way to get it working is to build it with the ZD1211_B=1 flag. You have to use "make ZD1211_B=1" when you build the driver. Don't use the "make both" command that they show in the guide, that will build both versions and take longer. You just need the ZD1211_B version.

Then reboot. I used KWifiManager, but iwconfig should work just as well for those of you who shun the GUI.

[Jocka]

I'm having a few problems with this thing myself. I'm getting tempted to just run a 100 foot cable across the building lol.

I've done everything in every tutorial and can't get this working. I ALMOST had this going and ran into this error:

src/zdtkipseed.o src/zdmic.o src/zdusb.o src/zd1211.o
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-amd64-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/jocka/zddrivers/zd1211-driver-r83 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-amd64-generic/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2
jocka@gtwasupport:~/zddrivers/zd1211-driver-r83$

I did a search on google after I saw this and something came up saying it needed linux-headers but those are installed. If someone tells me i still need them then i'll try to search them out again.

Please help. My boss is going to kill me if I don't get this online by tomorrow lol.

[FrodoB]

See the link in post #6, you are missing a link from modules directory to the headers.

[Jocka]

so do I need to reinstall the linux-headers ? I installed those from the Ubuntu cd, since I don't have the internet on the Ubuntu side to download.

I'm going to download the latest version with all dependencies right now and see if I can't get it to work. Unless I'm on the wrong track, then please let me know.