Belkin F5D7050 V4000 Works with Ubuntu, Why not with MEPIS on same hardware?
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I have loaded the V7.0 RC1 onto an old laptop that I have, expecting the kernel to deal with my Belkin wireless USB device as Ubuntu does, but no joy! The device should work with the kernel above the .20 level.
Since I cannot post from the problem machine due to the lack of connectivity I cannot supply a readout of lspci -v which is not very revealing. It doesn't seem to show the output of my wireless device.
I have configured the network manager the way I did for Ubuntu giving it the ESSID and manual configuration for IP and DNS.
Can anyone point me in the right direction. This should be a no brainer but it is a puzzle instead.
Many thanks,
Steve F.
Blacklick, OH
Thank you, but . . .
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The link you sent me too relates to the 2.6.15 kernel, not the 2.6.22 kernel that ships with the new release. I'd really hate to have to go back to go forward.
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Steve
Hi, I saw your entry on
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Hi,
I saw your entry on Mepislovers mentioning this issue, and advised you to create a thread there. Hadn't seen you had done here already... Sorry.
Anyways, do you know whic module needs to be loaded for that card? It is possible that Warren has not yet included it in the kernel. The Beta is sort of an ongoing process, so the kernel may not be complete at this moment.
If you know the module name, you can open a console, su to root (no sudo in MEPIS) and issue 'modprobe drivername'. If you get an error that the module is not found, well, that is easy, you will have to wait.
BTW: if you do 'lspci -v > lspci.txt', you get an output file with the name lspci.txt. Copy that over to the machine that does have connectivity and post. That being said, since this is a USB adapter, probably 'lsusb - v > lsusb.txt' will make more sense.
Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question
Yes, you need to find out first WHICH chip is used...
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Your usb device type apparently comes equipped with one of various (at least 2) different chips. You NEED to know which one is used in order to find out more about the required modules. The link I gave you gives precise info to find out which chip is used in your device. That has nothing to do with "an older kernel version". And you might take a good look at your Ubuntu installation to see which working driver-module is actually used.
Regards, Ko
Ko Bros
Thanks guys, I'll check out your ideas
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EOM
Take a look at this thread
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Take a look at this thread on Mepislovers in Oct.2006 (applies to Mepis 6.x):
http://mepislovers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2445
Ko Bros