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From: Josiah Jenkins 
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Subject: Re: Belkin 802.11g Wireless Laptop Card F5D7010
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:48:03 +0000
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Whilst perusing Usenet on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:34:30 -0700, I read
these words from ray  :

>On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:08:05 +0000, Josiah Jenkins wrote:
>
>> 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
pci-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' !
>
>the f5d7010 I have indicates a broadcomm chipset.

From what I've read, this appears to be a fairly common problem
with wireless cards. The manufacturer switches the source for the
chipset but doesn't give any indication of this in their part number.

It doesn't appear to make a blind bit of difference under Windoze
but causes all sorts of support problems under Linux.

-- jjj
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