I have got the BELKIN Wireless 54G card but when I try and load the drive it just says driver invalid. I just opened the file to look inside and it looks like its only for Windows computers (it has headings like Win2k specific and Win9x specific) but nothing that looks like its to do with Linux.

I went to the broadcom site to look at the drivers they have there but Im not really sure what to do as you have to complie them and Im new to linux.

Ive got the driver etc sorted now but what do I do not. THe driver is properly loaded and it detects the hardware.

How do I configure the SSID and the channel it uses ? (im using fedora core 3)

I don't know FC3, so maybe someone can say exactly. But there should be an area within the hardware or network settings dealing w/ network cards. In there it should list your network devices, probably an Ethernet port and your wireless card; you should be able to edit the settings of your card. One of the options after choosing your card should deal w/ wireless settings allowing you to change the SSID and channel.

For comparison, under SUSE (which I have on my laptop), the process is: open YAST, choose "Network Devices", choose "Network Card", choose "Change..." under network devices, select the wireless card and click "Edit", click "Advanced" then "Hardware Details", click "Wireless Settings", then enter the SSID and WEP key. Choose "Expert Details" to make changes to the channel.

Hope that gives you an idea. FC3 is probably a similar process, but hopefully not nearly as laboring. It took me almost an hour to find everything in SUSE.

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Hello, I have a belkin wireless 54G PCMCIA card. However I lost the CD that came with it and I understand I need the inf file for it to work. I went to Belkins site and downloaded the driver, but that came as an exe and when I installed it I couldn't find any belkin infs, only sys's.
Can anybody direct me where to find the inf file, or could some very kind person with the CD upload the PCMCIA inf?
Thanks Alot
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Hi null. Sorry for the delay in getting a responce up. I have been meaning to do this for sometime, but keep getting sidetracked

What you need is the wireless tools package for linux which can be found here

It contains a utility called iwconfig which can be used to set the essid, encryption key, channel, etc. If you install this package, you will get a nice man page describing all of what can be done.

I put a line in my startup file (right after I load the module) like this:

That sets my essid to NAME and gives the encryption key as well. You need to set the channel as well so you should use something like:

replacing eth1, NAME and the X's as suitable.

Hope this helps.

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Dear Crystalattice,
I m trying to install BELKIN wireless network card as DSMITH suggested, but i m getting the same error msg as u got. It seems like u've fixed the problem. Please help me out to fix this problem. I've been strugling with this for couple of days now. I am a new member here and a new linux user. Hopefully i'll learn a lot of things from here.

Error message i m getting:



regards,
masum

What Linux distro are you using? Some of the config files may be located in a different directory. And I have to ask, did the info I posted from SuSE help any? Are you able to connect to the net via a regular Ethernet port?

I currently don't have my card installed; I had to send it to the manufacturer because it wouldn't connect, even in Windows. Which brings up a good point: does your card work well in Windows? Oh yeah, if you're getting the above message, then you need to change the directory where the ydriver is located; "cody" is my name, hence the name of my user directory in home. Obviously the directory where your driver is located will most likely be different.

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Hi Cody,
Thanx for ur quick reply. I've Redhat 9 in my comp. and the card is working fine in Windows. My directory is different, thats right. I copied the error msg from ur post as i was getting the same msg. Sorry to confuse u with that.
Here's the exact msg i got.
Error Message:

I didn't get the ydriver thing. If you could explain in a bit more details or may be show me the commands that would be really great. As i said i am a very new unix user. I've to know and learn a lot of things.

regards,
masum

Sorry about the "ydriver"; it's just a typo. Have you tried updating your kernel? That could be a problem. Here's a link to a thread here that discusses kernel upgrading, and here's a link to the Redhat document discussing kernel upgrading.

I did find this link in the Redhat forums talking about ndiswrapper; it might have some information that will help you out. It appears fairly straightforward. If not, we'll keep working on it here.

For what it's worth, here's a link to the Redhat documentation page. I don't know if you already have these; if not, they may be some help to you as you start out.

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Thanx a lot Cody....I'll try to check those links and try to work something out. If not then i'll discuss with you again. I am actuallly trying to update my system to Fedora. Let's c what happens.

regards,
masum