Can't Connect with my Belkin F5D7000 v6000

**adamtheestimator** · June 11th, 2008

I can't say that I have tried it all, because if I had, it would probably be fixed, but I have searched and, apparently,
no one has the exact version that I do.
I have followed a well laid-out instruction to set up in Terminal.
I have totally flushed my Xubuntu and reloaded after getting only one response on my last plea for help.

see my post: Noob F5D7000 installation woes

I don't know what to do.
I really want to get into Linux via Xubuntu and possibly dump my Vista from my laptop and use Ubuntu,
but without wireless, that will never happen.

Here's what I am seeing:
My Belkin F5D7000 version 6000 is recognized by the system.
My SSID is recognized by my wireless card.
I have no security set up on my router to make it "easy".

In the top right hand corner I have an X through my connection.
When I right click there, it shows my SSID with a selection circle next to it.
When I click it - I get a "working" motion icon, then back to the no connection icon.

I would appreciate some help. I will not give up on this, and use Bill's crap forever,
but without help, it will take me a lot longer than the few WEEKS I have needlessly
wasted on trying to get this wireless card up and connected.

BTW I am at work,

doing this from memory, so I can't give you any Terminal command lists,
but ask anyway and I will get them for you when I get home.
Thanks in advance for your help.

**chewearn** · June 12th, 2008

Since nobody has replied, I thought I make one. More as moral support than anything else. To be frank, I'm a noob when it comes to wireless. I'm lucky because two of my wireless set-ups worked out of box, without fiddling.

In your other threads, you mentioned following a howto by Kevdog, but you failed to include a link. I thought I mentioned it, since it might be helpful to trace your troubleshooting thus far.

Secondly, about 50% of people think wicd is better than the ubuntu's default network manager. You could investigate on replacing the nm with wicd.

Finally, this turns up after some google-fu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=617297

What's the difference between v6000 and v7000?

**adamtheestimator** · June 12th, 2008

Thanks for the quick reply, Astala!

I haven't researched the differences between the v6000 and the v7000
past the NDISwrapper website list of cards supported.
When doing so, I got all excited as I went down the list..."rev2"..."v5000"..."v7000uk"...
...huh?...where's my v6000?
Story of my life.

Anyway, I will look into WCID, though I have no idea what it is.
Thanks for the new direction to look in!

Here's the link to Kevdog's 'how to' for your perusal.

Back to work, now...

**adamtheestimator** · June 14th, 2008

Ok. So, I tried WICD. I just knew it would be my savior! But alas, not so.

Now that I have WICD installed and Network Manager is gone, I can connect with my wired connection, but it doesn't recognize ANY wireless signals. On top of that, the program s e e m s t o b e r u n n i n g i n s l o w - m o t i o n . . .

I am looking at the screen right now and it is hung up on the main WICD screen...and has been for about 15 minutes...

H E L P .

**adamtheestimator** · June 15th, 2008

Just you can see what I see...

lshw -C network

*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
vendor: RaLink
physical id: b
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 00
serial: 00:11:50:db:ee:f7
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt61pci latency=32 module=rt61pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

iwconfig

lo no wireless extentions

wmaster0 no wireless extentions

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry min limit:7 RTS trh: off Fragment thr=2346 B
Link Quality:0 Signal Level:0 Noise Level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

lspci -n

00:00.0 0600: 1106:0598 (rev 04)
00:01.0 0604: 1106:8598
00:07.0 0601: 1106:0686 (rev 15)
00:07.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06)
00:07.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 06)
00:07.4 0600: 1106:3057 (rev 10)
00:08.0 0300: 1002:4755 (rev 9a)
00:0a.0 0280: 1814:0301

Alrighty, then. Who can tell me why my network is DISABLED
and how do I alleviate that?

Step right up! Who's first?

<<crickets chirping...>>