Trying to get Belkin n300 micro working on 11.04

[Unterseeboot_234]

I built ndiswrapper for Natty (11.04),it worked with the N300 and using the supplied CD driver on a single-core AMD64. The adapter would not work on a hexacore AMD64 Natty, yet works fine with Win7.

I noticed ndiswrapper is like a zombie. I reformatted the single-core AMD; and re-installed Natty; my settings persisted. After about 30 days Natty became unstable. I tried Ocelot as a clean install. Again my networks were still available for selection, I had to type in the serial number to join the LAN. But essentially the N300 was plug-n-play. Ocelot has ndiswrapper included.

Not sure if my twiddling prior to Ocelot has anything to do with the N300 working.

I dread Ubuntu upgrades to Ocelot.

I look forward to re-formatting the multi-core AMD64, installing Ocelot, and see if I have the same success. The hexacore is an office machine and the workers very much prefer Ubuntu over Win, but all have since gone over to Win7 boots while I sort out wireless issues.

One other thing, I have a tower box. The N300 works only with the front-panel USB. My guess is: RFI garbles the adapter in the rear panel.

[shalamigri]

Seanstar, thanks for starting this thread and praseodym, thanks for the detailed info on getting this device to work.

My adapter is now reporting 300 mb/s.

I had to search on updating kernel headers, but it was a snap and after rebooting my pc, the adapter was recognized.

Thanks again.

[praseodym]

You should install the metapackage of the kernel headers (e.g. linux-headers-generic, depends on the kernel). The headers will then be updated automatically

[Buckwheat469]

On Ubuntu 11.10, Linux 3.0.0-14-generic, the Belkin n300 works out of the box. I give it 5 stars, very happy. This is my second attempt at a USB wireless N adapter. The Linksys/Cisco ae2500 didn't work, while the Belkin n300 just works without any configuration issues.

dmesg:

[205626.756562] usb 1-1.3: new high speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[205626.944334] r8712u: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[205626.945938] r8712u: DriverVersion: v7_0.20100831
[205626.945953] r8712u: register rtl8712_netdev_ops to netdev_ops
[205626.945956] r8712u: USB_SPEED_HIGH with 4 endpoints
[205626.946429] r8712u: Boot from EFUSE: Autoload OK
[205627.346264] r8712u: CustomerID = 0x0000
[205627.346269] r8712u: MAC Address from efuse = 94:44:52:da:79:f1
[205627.346731] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8712u
[205627.420466] r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin"
[205628.076069] r8712u: 1 RCR=0x153f00e
[205628.076816] r8712u: 2 RCR=0x553f00e
[205628.185763] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[205697.510659] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[205697.733019] r8712u: [r8712_got_addbareq_event_callback] mac = 00:23:69:03:88:c3, seq = 32, tid = 0
[205707.775821] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

ifconfig (MAC and IPv6 addresses removed):

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx  
          inet addr:192.168.1.106  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: ffff::ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:29 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2376 (2.3 KB)  TX bytes:13183 (13.1 KB)

[clueblue]

Thank you, praseodym. You're off the chain, mate! Works on KDE Platform Version 4.7.3 (4.7.3) - Tommy

[cptrohn]

On Ubuntu 11.10, Linux 3.0.0-14-generic, the Belkin n300 works out of the box. I give it 5 stars, very happy. This is my second attempt at a USB wireless N adapter. The Linksys/Cisco ae2500 didn't work, while the Belkin n300 just works without any configuration issues.

dmesg:

[205626.756562] usb 1-1.3: new high speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[205626.944334] r8712u: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[205626.945938] r8712u: DriverVersion: v7_0.20100831
[205626.945953] r8712u: register rtl8712_netdev_ops to netdev_ops
[205626.945956] r8712u: USB_SPEED_HIGH with 4 endpoints
[205626.946429] r8712u: Boot from EFUSE: Autoload OK
[205627.346264] r8712u: CustomerID = 0x0000
[205627.346269] r8712u: MAC Address from efuse = 94:44:52:da:79:f1
[205627.346731] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8712u
[205627.420466] r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin"
[205628.076069] r8712u: 1 RCR=0x153f00e
[205628.076816] r8712u: 2 RCR=0x553f00e
[205628.185763] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[205697.510659] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[205697.733019] r8712u: [r8712_got_addbareq_event_callback] mac = 00:23:69:03:88:c3, seq = 32, tid = 0
[205707.775821] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

ifconfig (MAC and IPv6 addresses removed):

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx  
          inet addr:192.168.1.106  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: ffff::ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:29 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:2 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2376 (2.3 KB)  TX bytes:13183 (13.1 KB)

Yours worked out of the box?If you don't mind would you post the sn of the usb device? Mine is a Belkin F9L100v1 that I just bought today and it isn't recognized by ubuntu for me... I am wondering if mine might have a different firmware version or chipset. I am curious as to why mine isn't working, a co worker also told me he had one and it was recognized by ubuntu in this kernel as well... My device is working in my Win7Pro partition so it's not a bad device..

[Buckwheat469]

Model F7D2101 v1, sn 12104212112726 (I think?)

[cptrohn]

Model F7D2101 v1, sn 12104212112726 (I think?)

Ok, thanks a lot for taking the time to do that.... It's odd for me I guess because mine isn't recognized in just a straight Ubuntu 11.10 version, but I fired up a liveUSB of Kubuntu 11.10 and it was recognized.... So thinking it might be the kernel upgrade in 11.10 I went ahead and installed kubuntu 11.10 just to see for myself if that was the isseu and it still worked after the kernel upgrade.... Just a little odd that it wouldn't work at all (or even be recognized in the stock Ubuntu 11.10 and it is in K..)

Oh well I am rambling now lol, but thanks much for that,

[RickDanger]

I can't get this adapter to work either. I just downloaded the latest Ubuntu ISO and installed it, did all the updates and installed linux-headers-generic (I have 3.0.0-14-generic installed).

'lsusb' I get;

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 050d:2103 Belkin Components

But 'ifconfig -a' doesn't show it and 'ifconfig wlan up' gives me the message

wlan: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

What should I try next?

[Buckwheat469]

What should I try next?

Do you see anything out of the ordinary when you use dmesg? Note the driver version that I'm using. You may not have this driver available:

r8712u: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[205626.945938] r8712u: DriverVersion: v7_0.20100831