Linksys WUSB54GS/Belkin F5D7050uk in Linux?

Tican · 3 May 2006 at 21:07

Hi all,

I recently got myself a new router/wireless card etc. Its all fine and dandy but I want to have a mess around in Linux (Ubuntu) again. But I cant find a way how to install this USB adapter. I dont suppose anyone knows?

If I had the choice I would be using a wire, but as the PC is going to live upstairs it needs to be wireless, and I have this one sat around doing nothing - as it came with router.

I do have a belkin one aswell (F5D7050uk) , which works fine in Windows, but im not sure about linux on this either. I dont suppose anyone knows how to install either the Linksys or Belkin one? And which one would be easier for a n00b

Thanks in advance,

P.S: I would love to be messing around with Ubuntu A.S.A.P, as I want to make the switch lol.

Burbleflop · 3 May 2006 at 23:14

If there isn't native Linux support, have a look at ndiswrapper.

Tican · 4 May 2006 at 00:31

Burbleflop said:
If there isn't native Linux support, have a look at ndiswrapper.

Yea I found that but im lost with it

NdisWrapper Wiki said:
ard: Linksys #[WUSB54GSv2], 802.11b/g, USB 2.0 -- [link here|List#WUSB54GS]

* Chipset: Broadcom - BCM4320SKFBG
* usbid: 13b1:0014
* Driver: You can install this driver by either of the following two methods.
o Method1: The driver for this RNDIS card doesn't include two .sys files required (usb8023k.sys and rndismpk.sys or usb8023x.sys and rndismpx.sys), as they are part of Windows installation and don't need to be installed in Windows. However, other drivers for different cards based on RNDIS include these .sys files. One is Belkin F5D7051uk at [47]. You can install this driver with BCMRNDIS.INF, which installs the required .sys files. You then need to inform ndiswrapper that this driver, bcmrndis, should be used for usbid of WUSB54GSv2 (13b1:0014), by executing 'ndiswrapper -d 13b1:0014 bcmrndis'
o Method2: Used the inf file from the CD, and the .SYS files from usr5420 available at www.usr.com http://www.usr-emea.com/support/s-prod-template.asp?loc=unkg&prod=5420. Used snapshot from 13/02/2006, along with the usr system files that i had to install on a windows machine to extract. Then copied the wusb54gs.inf and wusb54gsv2.inf to the folder with the sys files - the wusb54gs.inf worked seamlessly with my device on the snapshot.!

Both files are exe's so wont run under linux :confused:

Or do I have it all wrong (I got an error anyways)

FirebarUK · 4 May 2006 at 09:25

You need to be in windows (or use an app that can open up .exe's), run the setup.exe and then find the driver files (most likely in C:/windows/system32/drivers ??? I think).
Once you've got the .sys and .inf for example, you can simply;

ndiswrapper -i driverfile.inf

to install, then;

ndiswrapper -l

^ that'll check.

then do ndiswrapper -m

then ;

modprobe ndiswrapper

Bosh. The above is all from memory though so it may not be 100% accurate.

Tican · 4 May 2006 at 13:35

FirebarUK said:
You need to be in windows (or use an app that can open up .exe's), run the setup.exe and then find the driver files (most likely in C:/windows/system32/drivers ??? I think).
Once you've got the .sys and .inf for example, you can simply;

ndiswrapper -i driverfile.inf

to install, then;

ndiswrapper -l

^ that'll check.

then do ndiswrapper -m

then ;

modprobe ndiswrapper

Bosh. The above is all from memory though so it may not be 100% accurate.

Hi so,

If I find the drivers on my other PC (windows xp) then put them on my pen drive thingy, then put that into my Linux Box, where should I put the drivers?
i.e desktop etc?

FirebarUK · 4 May 2006 at 13:38

I'd shove the drivers into /tmp. You need to be root to use the above commands, so tmp makes sense. Or perhaps root's home dir? Anywhere you like really.

Tican · 4 May 2006 at 14:13

FirebarUK said:
I'd shove the drivers into /tmp. You need to be root to use the above commands, so tmp makes sense. Or perhaps root's home dir? Anywhere you like really.

Ok, cool thanks.

Will go have a look

EDIT:

says i need "usb8023k.sys" but this only has usb8023.sys :confused:

EDIT: Seems as though all the drivers have nothing like they should after. for example I have "rndismp.sys" not "rndismpk.sys"

Tican · 4 May 2006 at 14:32

DJ Binks said:
Ok, cool thanks.

Will go have a look

EDIT:

says i need "usb8023k.sys" but this only has usb8023.sys

EDIT: Seems as though all the drivers have nothing like they should after. for example I have "rndismp.sys" not "rndismpk.sys"

AHHHH!!! Sorted that problem out, installed the belkin thing on my 2000pro machine, and it gave me the files i needed. Now time to get lost within ubuntu

Edit: Maybe not :confused:

hmmmm will have a look on this pc :confused:

FirebarUK · 4 May 2006 at 14:38

You could try this;

http://www.dynamiclink.nl/htmfiles/rframes/info_inf/info_u/11.htm

Tican · 4 May 2006 at 14:40

FirebarUK said:
You could try this;

http://www.dynamiclink.nl/htmfiles/rframes/info_inf/info_u/11.htm

I think I was reading what it said wrong, said one or other K or X, I have the K's so it should be ok now. Will see

ME = N00B!!! :mad:

Tican · 4 May 2006 at 16:56

DJ Binks said:
I think I was reading what it said wrong, said one or other K or X, I have the K's so it should be ok now. Will see

ME = N00B!!!

Now I am getting errors, invalid driver or something, hmmm wish I could just use a cable

Tican · 4 May 2006 at 18:59

I have been reading up on the matter, and it seems as it is very very hit and miss to get it working. Good that Linksys use Linux on their routers but cant even bring out linux drivers for this :mad:

FirebarUK · 4 May 2006 at 19:20

Yeah its not always as simple as it sounds. Have you tried getting the drivers from the exe ?

Tican · 4 May 2006 at 21:11

FirebarUK said:
Yeah its not always as simple as it sounds. Have you tried getting the drivers from the exe ?

Umm nope, dnno how though :confused:

FirebarUK · 4 May 2006 at 22:27

Have a good read through this and follow the link on the last post;

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=400613

Tican · 5 May 2006 at 00:03

Me and someone on msn was going through this:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=106846

When I got to:

Code:

Configure your wireless device through /etc/network/interfaces. Here is a sample file.

iface rausb0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid apname
wireless-key xxxxxxxxx
wireless-mode Managed
auto rausb0

restart the networking service

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

I thought i was doing OK, but on the restart I got the following

Code:

 * Reconfiguring network interfaces...                           [fail]

Any idea?

xxxxxxx = my "key" lol. All I changed was wireless-essid apname to wireless-essid linksys (name of the network name thing lol)

So it looked like this:

Code:

iface rausb0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid [b]linksys[/b]
wireless-key xxxxxxxxx
wireless-mode Managed
auto rausb0

As I said before I am a complete n00b when it comes to linux, so maybe someone can help?

Burbleflop · 5 May 2006 at 00:06

When it fails to restart the network, have a look in /var/log/messages and you should be able to find out what it is complaing about.

FirebarUK · 5 May 2006 at 06:46

If you've been unable to get ndiswrapper to work, its probably complaining that there is no interface.

Tican · 5 May 2006 at 11:15

Code:

May 5 01:55:49 Localhost hp: unable to connect to hpiod socket 1025: Network is unreachable; prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 693

Looks like its to do with printing? :confused:

shouldnt be though :confused:

edit: if its even that though? only thing for the time i restarted network. I tried to restart again but it failed but wouldnt give me the error :rolleyes:

lol.