Comments on: Ubuntu 7:10 Gutsy and Belkin USB Wireless Networking

By: Jay Poole

Jay Poole — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:50:48 +0000

Hi,

thanks for the post, although when you configure the encryption at the end of the post, what commands would you use for WEP encryption? so far I have
pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set AuthMode=WEPPSK

the settings for the next two lines elude me…perhaps
pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set WEPPSK=your_network_encryption_key ….and…
pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set EncrypType=WEP

????

Thanks

By: soma

soma — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:28:02 +0000

can some one help me i got ubuntu 7.10 and i got belkin f5d7050 so its support so plz can some one help me

By: mcnicholl

mcnicholl — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:22:51 +0000

Hi Ahmad,

I have read similar stories about people having the same issue as yourself. Some times the driver wasn’t the correct one – as the chipset in the wireless adaptor is different. If you are sure that you have the EXACT same adaptor then I am not sure of the reason. Do your logs show anything? You might want to recompile the driver again – just incase.

By: Ahmad

Ahmad — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:57:35 +0000

first of all thanx for the post
It works fine for me except that now if i boot my pc while the usb card is plugged in the computer will hang. If i boot with the usb unplugged then plug it when i login, then do network restart everything works fine.
I have ubuntu gutsy

By: mcnicholl

mcnicholl — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:12:35 +0000

Hi Mike!

Glad this helped. I have rebuilt my ubuntu box about 3 times since and these steps have been followed word for word without fail I found proper details about WPA hard to come by.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:43:17 +0000

Wow, thank you, you probably just saved my life.
This worked with the Belkin Wireless USB F5D7050. I had previously been messing around with the Windows drivers and ndiswrapper, and wasn’t getting anywhere.
Just had to leave a thank you note

By: mcnicholl

mcnicholl — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:54:53 +0000

Hi Charles,

Why do you “need” to use an old kernel?

The model of the Belkin wireless adaptor used in this tutorial is F5D9050B and that uses the rt73 driver. I don’t think your F5D7050 has the same chip inside.

Try this tutorial instead :

http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Hardware/DispositiviSenzaFili/BelkinF5D7050

Hope this helps.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:06:26 +0000

Still not working – I still need to use the ancient linux kernel

BELKIN Wireless G USB Network Adapter
Model F5D7050

By: Talim

Talim — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:23:33 +0000

What a post!

Thanks so much ! This has just saved my brain from meltdown.