Belkin USB Wireless Stick F5D7051

[oli1997]

my dad said he's getting a new router so i think i'll wait and see if it doesn't fasten up the Internet if not then yea ill give it a go

p.s i'll let you know if it does or doesn't (sorry 4 the hassle)

[taffyviking]

Thanks to James_vanb for his concise and easy to read post. I've been trying to get my ralink rt73 based Gigabyte GN-WB01GS USB wireless stick working for weeks now, and everything I've read has been incomprehensible, but finally I have the wretched thing connected thanks to you!

[james_vanb]

Glad it worked for you.

Happy New Year!!

[oli1997]

my internet doesn't seem to be faster so can you tell me what to do to tune it up


thanxs oliver

[pytheas22]

my internet doesn't seem to be faster so can you tell me what to do to tune it up

oliver: sure, I'll give you instructions for getting the card working under ndiswrapper. But first I just need to know a little more information. Could you please post the output of these commands:

lshw -C Network
uname -rm
lsmod | grep rt

[oli1997]

oliver@oliver-desktop:~$ lshw -C Network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: VT6102 [Rhine-II]
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 12
bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
logical name: eth0
version: 78
serial: 00:16:17:75:e6:7c
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=via-rhine driverversion=1.4.3 latency=32 maxlatency=8 mingnt=3 module=via_rhine multicast=yes
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 1
logical name: pan0
serial: ea:c2:f8:f2:cf:23
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes
*-network:1
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:11:50:46:7f:e1
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes ip=192.168.2.2 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
oliver@oliver-desktop:~$ uname -rm
2.6.27-9-generic i686
oliver@oliver-desktop:~$ lsmod | grep rt
gameport 19468 1 snd_via82xx
rt73usb 30464 0
crc_itu_t 10112 2 udf,rt73usb
snd_mpu401_uart 15360 1 snd_via82xx
rt2500usb 27904 0
rt2x00usb 18816 2 rt73usb,rt2500usb
rt2x00lib 36224 3 rt73usb,rt2500usb,rt2x00usb
rfkill 17176 1 rt2x00lib
led_class 12164 1 rt2x00lib
mac80211 216820 4 p54usb,p54common,rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib
cfg80211 32392 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
snd_rawmidi 29824 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd 63268 17 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_o ss,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
parport_pc 39204 1
parport 42604 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
agpgart 42184 2 drm,via_agp
usbcore 148848 8 p54usb,rt73usb,rt2500usb,rt2x00usb,usbhid,uhci_h

[pytheas22]

Oliver: thanks for that information. Please run these commands to get your card working using ndiswrapper (you will need to have an Internet connection for these commands to work):

mkdir wifi
cd wifi
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
wget http://burnthesorbonne.com/files/050d_7050_win32.tar.gz
tar -xzvf 050d*
sudo ndiswrapper -i BLKWGU.inf
sudo -s
sudo modprobe -r rt73usb rt2x00usb rt2500usb rt2x00lib
echo ndiswrapper | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
dmesg | grep -e ndis -e wlan
lshw -C Network
lsmod | grep rt
ndiswrapper -l

Please post all the output from the commands above so that I can make sure they complete successfully.

At this point, your card should be working under ndiswrapper and will hopefully provide a better connection that it did before (if it doesn't work and you've lost your Internet connection completely, just reboot your computer and it should come back). However, if you reboot your computer, you will default back to your current configuration. Once we determine that ndiswrapper works, we can make the change permanent so that it will always be used; but I don't want to make permanent changes until we know that ndiswrapper will solve your problem.

[oli1997]

oliver@oliver-desktop:~$ mkdir wifi
oliver@oliver-desktop:~$ cd wifi
oliver@oliver-desktop:~/wifi$ sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
[sudo] password for oliver:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
evolution-common evolution-webcal linux-headers-2.6.27-7
linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic libsnack2 amsn-data tcl8.5 tk8.5 tcl-tls
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
ndiswrapper-source
The following NEW packages will be installed
ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 55.4kB of archives.
After this operation, 225kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main ndiswrapper-common 1.52-1ubuntu1 [20.2kB]
Get: 2 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 1.52-1ubuntu1 [35.1kB]
Fetched 55.4kB in 0s (173kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package ndiswrapper-common.
(Reading database ... 127390 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ndiswrapper-common (from .../ndiswrapper-common_1.52-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package ndiswrapper-utils-1.9.
Unpacking ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 (from .../ndiswrapper-utils-1.9_1.52-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up ndiswrapper-common (1.52-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 (1.52-1ubuntu1) ...
oliver@oliver-desktop:~/wifi$
oliver@oliver-desktop:~/wifi$
oliver@oliver-desktop:~/wifi$
oliver@oliver-desktop:~/wifi$
oliver@oliver-desktop:~/wifi$
oliver@oliver-desktop:~/wifi$
oliver@oliver-desktop:~/wifi$
oliver@oliver-desktop:~/wifi$ wget http://burnthesorbonne.com/files/050d_7050_win32.tar.gz
--2009-01-05 17:26:19-- http://burnthesorbonne.com/files/050d_7050_win32.tar.gz
Resolving burnthesorbonne.com... 174.133.198.114
Connecting to burnthesorbonne.com|174.133.198.114|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 139472 (136K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `050d_7050_win32.tar.gz'

100%[======================================>] 139,472 127K/s in 1.1s

2009-01-05 17:26:20 (127 KB/s) - `050d_7050_win32.tar.gz' saved [139472/139472]

oliver@oliver-desktop:~/wifi$ tar -xzvf 050d*
blkwgu.cat
BLKWGU.inf
BLKWGU.sys
oliver@oliver-desktop:~/wifi$ sudo ndiswrapper -i BLKWGU.inf
installing blkwgu ...
oliver@oliver-desktop:~/wifi$ sudo -s
root@oliver-desktop:~/wifi# sudo modprobe -r rt73usb rt2x00usb rt2500usb rt2x00lib
FATAL: Module rt2x00usb is in use.
root@oliver-desktop:~/wifi# echo ndiswrapper | sudo tee -a /etc/modules
ndiswrapper
root@oliver-desktop:~/wifi# sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
root@oliver-desktop:~/wifi# dmesg | grep -e ndis -e wlan
[ 71.807422] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:30:f1:ff:98:38
[ 71.838612] wlan0: authenticated
[ 71.838630] wlan0: associate with AP 00:30:f1:ff:98:38
[ 71.846990] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:30:f1:ff:98:38 (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1)
[ 71.847013] wlan0: associated
[ 84.592012] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 261.473660] ndiswrapper version 1.53 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[ 261.518346] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
root@oliver-desktop:~/wifi# lshw -C Network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: VT6102 [Rhine-II]
vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
physical id: 12
bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
logical name: eth0
version: 78
serial: 00:16:17:75:e6:7c
size: 10MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=via-rhine driverversion=1.4.3 duplex=half latency=32 link=no maxlatency=8 mingnt=3 module=via_rhine multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:11:50:46:7f:e1
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes ip=192.168.2.2 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
*-network:1 DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: pan0
serial: 5e:23:83:2f:c3:46
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes
root@oliver-desktop:~/wifi# lsmod | grep rt
gameport 19468 1 snd_via82xx
snd_mpu401_uart 15360 1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi 29824 2 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi
snd 63268 17 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_o ss,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
rt2500usb 27904 0
rt2x00usb 18816 1 rt2500usb
rt2x00lib 36224 2 rt2500usb,rt2x00usb
rfkill 17176 1 rt2x00lib
led_class 12164 1 rt2x00lib
mac80211 216820 4 p54usb,p54common,rt2x00usb,rt2x00lib
cfg80211 32392 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
parport_pc 39204 1
parport 42604 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
agpgart 42184 2 drm,via_agp
usbcore 148848 10 ndiswrapper,p54usb,rt2500usb,rt2x00usb,usb_storage ,libusual,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
root@oliver-desktop:~/wifi# ndiswrapper -l
blkwgu : driver installed

[pytheas22]

Oliver: it looks like everything went smoothly, but the Windows driver that I had you install was not the correct one--I assumed it was but didn't double-check. However, I've spent a few minutes now trying to find the right Windows driver and am not having luck. Could you provide a link to the driver that you used to install your wireless card in Windows? If the driver came on a CD, could you upload the .exe or .zip file here please? I'm sorry to have to ask you to do this, but I'm googled quite a bit for 'f5d7051 driver' and have not turned up anything containing the right files.

[theDaveTheRave]

Pytheas22

I must say you are doing a grand job here,

I had an old version of the belkin f5d7051 USB stick working on Gibbon. I don't have the CD with me at the moment, and having just moved house it could be anywhere! but I seem to recall that if you head to the belkin web site they have all the driver downloads that you are talking about.

good luck and keep up the good work

David