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From: Josiah Jenkins 
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Subject: Re: Belkin 802.11g Wireless Laptop Card F5D7010
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Whilst perusing Usenet on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 22:08:33 GMT, I read these
words from "Dave"  :
>"Josiah Jenkins"  wrote in message 
>news:hpn3u2hchdkqjfqrr5ijvi7otppi7si1he@4ax.com...
>> After three days of trying, I've about reached the stage
>> of giving up on getting my USR5410 card to run under
>> Ubuntu 6.06 and am looking to alternatives.
>>
>> After digging around the net, the above seems to work
>> OK under Ubuntu and Debian and is available.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm (or otherwise) if it does work ?
>>
>> Alternatively, any suggestions for a card which will
>> work without too much tweaking of files ?
>
>I have used this Belkin card on Both SUSE 10.1 and Ubuntu 6.10. They worked 
>fine with no twiddling or ndsiwrapper stuff:
>
>http://movingtolinux.blogspot.com/2006/04/belkin-f5d7000-wifi-p
i-card-works.html

Thanks for the info.

However, I do note that the URL above relates to an F5D70_00_
and it says, "For the more technical savy this wifi card uses an
Atheros chipset."

According to the info I have from my potential purchase source,
the F5D70_10_ uses a 'Ralink RT2500 chipset' !

-- jjj
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