Another topic on the Belkin F5D6020v2...

Stu L Tissimus

Okay. After way too much trouble with the unofficial atmelwlandrivers a while back, I've decided to give the actual 2.6 official drivers a try. I've searched the forums and haven't really found much useful stuff. So, can somebodyt give me a from-scratch guide to getting a Belink F5D6020v2 PCMCIA Wireless LAN card working? I'm about to hit it with a hammer.
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Voltago · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 6:52 pm Post subject:

Very easy (in theory):

1. Build your kernel with atmel support as module (in kernel since 2.6)
2. Grab the firmware package from www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel , install
3. Be _sure_ to have your /etc/pcmcia/config.opts configured properly, since kernel 2.6 will fuck up trying to autodetect good memory/port ranges, and this will result in cardmgr trying to use memory_cs for driver (instead of atmel_cs)
4. Use for example this script to fire up your wireless connection:

Stu L Tissimus · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 8:10 pm Post subject:

Thanks a lot. However, I don't know how I should configure /etc/pcmcia.config.opts the "correct" way...
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Voltago · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 8:36 pm Post subject:

Well, a good guideline would be that, when running a 2.4er kernel, cardmgr won't exclude port- and memory-ranges. Worked for me, at least...

Stu L Tissimus · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 8:44 pm Post subject:

*stares at above post*

*blinks*

Ummm... SOrry, but I have no idea what you're talking about

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Voltago · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject:

OK, sorry, maybe too cryptic.
First:

Stu L Tissimus · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:01 am Post subject:

Well, I kinda have it working. ALl I did was modprobe atmel_cs, and then copy net.eth0 to net.eth1. I depscanned it, worked. I emerged wireless-tools, worked. I pute iface_eth1 in /etc/onf.d/net. I did /etc/init.d/net.eth1, didn't work. My card was flashing when I did it, but it just says that it failed after a minute or two.

iwconfig recognizes my card, though.

Weird.
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Voltago · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 11:33 am Post subject:

Stu L Tissimus · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject:

root@tundra max # cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "Siemens", "SpeedStream CardBus 10/100"
manfid: 0x02ac, 0x1012
function: 6 (network)
Socket 1:
product info: "Belkin", "11Mbps-Wireless-Notebook-Network-Adapter"
manfid: 0x01bf, 0x3302
function: 6 (network)

Also, I inserted the card and it executes net.eth1 automatically. It's still blinking. And blinking.
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Voltago · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2004 5:47 pm Post subject:

Now, do a

Stu L Tissimus · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 2:58 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the reply. (Just FYI, I think you meant to add it to config, not atmel.conf... i had it there already.)

Okay, anyway, that definitely did something. Now, when I do net.eth1, it can bring it up. However, I don't think it really did. It does it amazingly fast (Less than a second). And when I unplug net.eth0, and restart pcmcia and stop net0 and start net1, I cannot ping -c 3 yahoo.com...
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Stu L Tissimus · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 5:06 pm Post subject:

*hits Belkin F5D6020v2 card*

DAMN YOU!!!
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reaz82 · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 7:08 pm Post subject:

I got 2.6 kernel working with everything except the belkin wireless thing..

so far the card is detected and if I type in ifconfig -a I am able to see an eth1 entry which is linked to my Belkin card. Also the atmel_cs modules is loaded into the kernel. However, the card keeps blinking and is unable to detect the wireless signal.

I had this card working in 2.4.22 but I have not been able to get it working in 2.6. I did try to move the lines from atmel.conf to config. And when I did that I got an error saying "unknown device"

I hope that helps.

Stu L Tissimus · Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject:

Oh well.

At least I'm getting a new lappy soon...
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