[driverloader] Belkin 54g Wireless devices

[Linuxant support]

Hi,

make sure WEP encryption is off on both computers.

Also make sure they use the same channel, because in Ad-Hoc mode, unlike in
managed mode, I don't think the channel is detected automatically since
there is no "client" and "server".

Since you have cards with Broadcom chipsets, I suggest using the Belkin NDIS
Windows XP driver because it is usually the most recent one. You can
download it from the following link.

http://web.belkin.com/support/download/download.asp?download=F5D7000&lang=1&mode=

When you uncompress the ".exe" file with "unzip", "unrar" or "winzip", the
driver files will be in "program files/Belkin/Belkin 54Mbps Wireless
Utility/Driver".

Before uploading the INF file (bcmwl5.ntf) through the web interface, you
must edit it to add your PCI ID under "[BROADCOM]" near the top.

If your card's PCI ID was "14e4:4324" and the sub PCI ID "1028:0001",
you would need to add the following line. Note that the sub vendor ID and
sub device ID are transposed.

---
%BCM430G_DeviceDesc% = BCM43XG, PCI\VEN_14E4&DEV_4324&SUBSYS_00011028
---

Regards,

Jean-Simon Durand
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philip Burness" <pburness at btopenworld.com>
To: <support at linuxant.com>; <driverloader at lists.linuxant.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 3:36 AM
Subject: [driverloader] Belkin 54g Wireless devices


Hi,
Sorry for the request for help but I am interested in purchasing licences
for your product. I have downloaded trial licenses and cannot get the
equipment to work under SuSE 9.0.
Obviously before I purchase the licenses I would like to ensure the system
functions.
I have a desktop and a laptop. The desktop has a PCI wireless network card,
the laptop has a cardbus wireless network card (both are belkin and use the
broadcom chipset) both are running SuSE 9.0

The laptop is configured as ESSID = Home, NICK = laptop, mode = Ad-hoc
address = 169.254.94.225

The desktop is configured as ESSID = Home, nick = desk, mode = Ad-hoc
address = 169.254.94.225

ifconfig from both machines show the wlan0 interface up
iwconfig from both machines show the ESSID, NICK, MODE as listed above, but
both machines show 0 signal strength
The machines are next to each other
Pinging the desktop from the laptop shows the coms LED flashing but gives
network unreachable
Pinging the laptop from the desktop gives the same message but I cannot see
the LED's
I have removed the firewall from both machines
the kernel in the desktop is 2.4-119
the kernel in the laptop is 2.4-99

Can you help?
Phil