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From: Joe LaVigne 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: Belkin 802.11g Wireless Laptop Card F5D7010
Date: 26 Feb 2007 03:15:38 GMT
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:28:35 +0000, Josiah Jenkins wrote:

> Whilst perusing Usenet on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:54:38 -0700, I read
> these words from ray  :
> 
>>On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:19:48 +0000, Josiah Jenkins wrote:
>>
>>> 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 had one. It used to work on 5.10. When I upgraded to 6.06 I was unable
>>to get working again using either ndiswrapper or the native drivers. I
>>found half a dozen 'recipes' people had written to get it working - all
>>failed. I finally purchased a Dlind WNA2330 (Atheros chipset instead of
>>broadcomm) and it worked immediately, flawlessly 'out of the box'.
> 
> Had me hunting all over the internet there !
> You mean a 'D-link WNA2330' ?
> 
> According to the info I have from my potential purchase source,
> it's not an 'Atheros' chipset (as fitted in the F5D7000)
> 
> The F5D70_10_, which I'm looking at,
> uses a 'Ralink RT2500 chipset' !
> 
> Unfortunately the D-Link WNA2330 doesn't appear to
> be available here (UK).

I highly recommend finding a card that IS available to you that uses the
Atheros chipset.
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