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From: ray 
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Subject: Re: Belkin 802.11g Wireless Laptop Card F5D7010
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:43:12 -0700
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:48:03 +0000, Josiah Jenkins wrote:

> 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-wif
-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.

I suspect that is because they always ship the correct MS drivers with the
cards. ndiswrapper will often work with those. It could also be that the
MS drivers check the chipset on install.


> 
> -- jjj
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