From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.11]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2294704 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:13:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4BACDD13.4060402@2rosenthals.com> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:13:07 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Firmware for USB wireless sticks References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Will... On 03/26/10 11:57 am, Will Honea thus wrote : > My turn to ask questions ;-) > > I'm trying to fix up a notebook for my brother and his built in wireless went > titsup. I found a couple of USB units in ye old junque box to use in place of > the on-board one and both work under Windows (after some searching for > drivers). One is a Belkin F5D7050 which uses the Prism V1 driver, the other is > a US Robotics USR805422, chipset unknown. I'm trying to set him up under Linux > as the Vista that came with his HP laptop flat out refuses to restore but I > really need to get wireless working. > > Long and short of it is that openSUSE recognizes the Belkin piece but wants the > firmware file - which I can't find readily. Ndiswrapper has me confused (I > know more than I understand!). That looks like my best shot. > > The USRobotics unit is even more of an enigma. Linux recognizes that a device > is plugged in but doesn't get anything more than the device ID and string - > nothing else. That one may be a lost cause. > > Given that I have the WIn .sys drivers for both devices, how do I get them > going? Since I can't find the exact firmware file for the Belkin Prism unit, > do I just install the win driver with ndiswrapper? How? > > Same questions for the USR piece. > > My main involvement with Linux is on the server side, and not the workstation or notebook side, so I rarely have to deal with wireless issues. And, as this is an OS/2 list, it's probably not the best place to seek advice in this regard, either... :-) That said, I have a couple links for you, which may help shed some light on this: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ http://wireless.kernel.org/ > Just an aside: eCS 2.0 RC4 actually recognizes and use BOTH of these devices > right out of the box. How's that for an obsolete OS? > > Hold on... Are you saying that you can connect a USB Wi-Fi device to eCS 2.0 RC4, and it comes up, binds, and passes traffic? -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------