After some research, it seemed that the Belkin W5D7050 was the best bet to connect my Hardy desktop to wireless networks. Alas, the claims of it being ready out of the box did no good for me.
I right click on the Network Manager icon (two computers with a red and white X) and find "Enable Networking" checked, "Connection Information" greyed out, and click on "Edit Wireless Networks". It immediately opens to show NO networks. The lights on my USB adapter are off from boot to shutdown, and it works in my XP other boot.
I've tried many different approaches found here and elsewhere to get it working, none of which worked. Most were halted by my inability to do anything so simple as install a program, some by the fact that I CAN'T download a package without internet in Linux! The best guide I found was here, and got so far as having to install my zd1211 driver, but when I downloaded and unzipped it, there was no Makefile to edit as the walkthrough commands!!
Specs: Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, Belkin Wireless G USB Adapter "Ver.5000" F5D7050
Here's the results of some common commands I see others recommending:
Code:
$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 003: ID050d:705e Belkin Components
Code:
$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Code:
$ modprobe zd1211b
FATAL: Module zd1211b not found
Code:
$ modprobe zd1211rw
WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211_crypt (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko): Operation not permitted
WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko): Operation not permitted
WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211softmac (/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko): Operation not permitted
I even tried ndiswrapper, which somehow didn't install on my system. That may be just as well, as I'd prefer to keep the solution simple.
PLEASE HELP!!!!
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