Well, it’s been a while since my last post, previously explained in a previous entry. I’ve managed to fix things and found out a thing or two as to why wireless support broke in feisty fawn, while still working properly in Edgy Eft.

It drove me “up the wall” (as we’d say here in colloquial Australia), but I was determined to get my system working and so I did.

Check out these posts for more information – I’ve broken it up so that you aren’t flooded with a big essay on completely different, but somewhat related subject matter:

- Linux RT818X driver crashes 2.6.20.x kernel
- How I got my Belkin f5d6001 wireless card running on Feisty Fawn

Note: there’s been a lot of traffic to this page, and just out of interest, I’d like to know if this piece of advice has actually helped anyone out, so if it has aided you in your quest to wireless connectivity, has led you through yet another wild goose-chase, or is flawed in any manner or form, please leave a comment and I’ll make adjustments as required.

I was determined to get my wireless card up and running – There are reports out there that belkin f5d6001 cards have worked without incident for others, so I should be able to figure out WHY there are so many incidents that prevent me from running mine.

After trawlling through the internet I find out about ndiswrapper. I install ndiswrapper and as suggested use the drivers provided with my card. “belkin f5d6001″ – the driver gives you enough hope in a sense that it detects your network card, but does not detect anything else (no access points, NOTHING! but you can attempt to configure it).

After days of trying this, that and other different ways of setting up wireless configurations, I came across some post saying that you could also use rtl8180 windows drivers with ndiswrapper to make things work. I was desperate so I dug a little deeper remembering that I had reviewed the blacklist and found a bug report about Linux r818x drivers. This confirmed some things for me and so I downloaded the windows driver from realtek website.

Here are the following steps I did to make things happen:
» Read more: How I got my Belkin f5d6001 wireless card running on Feisty Fawn (updated)