Belkin f5d8055 v2 win7

BigRazer93 · 3 Nov 2009 at 20:49

My mate bought this for a new rig. He currently has windoows 7 64 bit installed and can't get the belkin f5d8055 n+ usb adapter to run on windows 7. He has tried the vista 64bit drivers and tried to use it in the combatability mode but no luck. The pc can't find the usb adapter when it says "please plug it in".

He has tried differenet usb ports but no luck. Any 1 else got round this?

BigRazer93 · 3 Nov 2009 at 20:59

Update: He ran Belkin him self and they said "we are currently making drivers that support windows 7, as its a new os out. We have have drivers shortly". Lol, he was angry

jim2069 · 3 Nov 2009 at 22:03

its my dongle and i want to cry cause i want to go online

gccurtin · 25 Nov 2009 at 13:48

Ben-Irvine93 said:
My mate bought this for a new rig. He currently has windoows 7 64 bit installed and can't get the belkin f5d8055 n+ usb adapter to run on windows 7. He has tried the vista 64bit drivers and tried to use it in the combatability mode but no luck. The pc can't find the usb adapter when it says "please plug it in".

He has tried differenet usb ports but no luck. Any 1 else got round this?

So this is what I did on Windows 7 64bit, with the F5D8055ea USB adapter:

Installed windows. Plugged in USB, but Windows 7 did not find an appropriate driver. So in device manager, right click on network adapter, choose update driver, browse computer for driver, and point to the CD that came with the adapter, including sub folders.

Windows 7 found a suitable driver on the CD, and so it works just fine. It's using the 2.3.2.0 driver provided on the Belkin CD, which is the Ralink netr28ux driver.

Any questions?

Now if someone could just work out how to get this to work under Linux, I would be very happy indeed.

G550 · 13 Dec 2009 at 05:18

gccurtin, is that with 4G of ram installed ?
Anything ralink based with Win7 64bit and 4G of ram seems to provide all sorts of trouble at the moment.

I have a couple of Tenda units (n & g spec), both of which fail to install on Win7 though are detected correctly.
They *do* however, work on a different machine with Win7 64bit and only 2G ram.
Windows XP 32bit no problems at all, regardless of machine or RAM configuration.

gccurtin · 13 Dec 2009 at 09:18

G550 said:
Win7 64bit and 4G of ram seems to provide all sorts of trouble at the moment.

Ouch! Thanks for the heads-up. I have more than 4GB so no problems there.

I did test this a few minutes ago on a VM (Win 7 64bit guest running on VirtualBox openSUSE 64 bit host) and set the RAM to 4GB, and there were no problems. Maybe it is a specific combination of hardware and not just the amount of RAM that causes problems.

Gary