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   From: Josiah Jenkins    
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   Subject: Re: Belkin 802.11g Wireless Laptop Card F5D7010   
   Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:48:03 +0000   
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   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-wifi   
   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.   
      
   -- jjj   
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