[fish613]

I've just installed a copy of Ubuntu 6.10 on an old laptop. My problem is that my wireless card refuses to work - Linux fails to even recognise it.
The card is a Belkin F5D7010xx. I have contacted Belkin, and their (almost) unintelligible replies can be see here on http://tinyurl.com/23smjq. I can't make any sense of them, but maybe the community can.
Any help would be appreciated, even if it's to say it can't be done.

Thanks!
fish613

[mrbrownstone]

The answer they've given you appears to be for a network card with a realtek 8139 series NIC which isn't a wireless chipset and ubuntu recognises out of the box anyway.

What I think may work for you is to download the windows xp driver for your wireless card and then follow these steps from step 5 from here and substitute the .inf file for the .inf file from the windows drivers you downloaded for your card. It worked for me for my unsupported wireless card.

[kingomar]

i had the same problem. the only way i solved it was by switching back to windows xp. though a sad solution, i couldnt put up with this stupid mumbojumbo about linux not recognizing network card.

[mrbrownstone]

Originally Posted by kingomar

i had the same problem. the only way i solved it was by switching back to windows xp. though a sad solution, i couldnt put up with this stupid mumbojumbo about linux not recognizing network card.

There is less-and-less of the 'mumbojumbo' required as Linux evoloves and I find that many network cards just work right out the box. Besides it's not exactly a long process to get ndiswrapper working under ubuntu based distros.