Belkin FD7010 automatic configuration

[peter_zandbergen]

Hello,

I am trying to automate the configuration of my Belkin FD7010 pcmcia wifi card under Puppy. I have managed to get it all running using ndiswrapper, iwconfig and dhcpcd.

After this little success I now want to start the network connection automatically at system startup. So I copied the commands to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:

# Commands to activate wifi on Belkin adapter in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
# Load the module.
modprobe ndiswrapper
# Configurate the wireless parameters of the adapter.
iwconfig wlan0 essid name-of-the-network key restricted xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
# Configure the IP parameters of the adapter.
dhcpcd wlan0

Now it was time to reboot the machine. After the windows manager started I inspected the state of the different levels with iwconfig and ifconfig. iwconfig showed the wlan0 adapter, but it had not been properly configurated. This means that the iwconfig command in the rc.local file does not execute properly. The dhcpcd command had run, because the pid file in was created. (dhcpcd complains when you run it again on the adapter.)

My question is why this does not work. If I copy the commands in a separate file and execute in a command window, then I have a perfectly running wifi connection.

Any help is apprecitated.

Peter

[keenerd]

Modprobe takes a moment to initialize. After the "mdoprobe ndiswrapper" line, add "sleep 5". This will pause for 5 seconds, and keeep ndiswrapper functional.

[klhrevolutionist]

You could probably use the start-items dotpup.
It will automatically start apps and what have you
download it through the dotpup downloader in 1.0.5
it is under System Utilities (contrib) Start-Items

[peter_zandbergen]

Thnks for your suggestions. I will first try the sleep suggestion and if that doesn't work the start items approach.

Peter

[peter_zandbergen]

Keenerd, a little nap (sleep 5) did the trick.

I also added the -n parameter to the dhcpcd command, because the pid file for the adapter was not removed after a system reboot.

Thanks four your help. Same goes for klhrevolutionist

Peter

Puppies are go

[svanand]

I have the same wireless card and without checking I installed the driver for RT2500 (my other laptop has the RT2500) and it worked in one step, no ndiswrapper. You might want to try that.

For the first time with my 10s of tries to get wireless working with many distros, puppy came through, first time, perfectly. Now, to get WPA working properly

[peter_zandbergen]

My belkin card is an older version, which uses the Broadcom 43xx chipset. As far as I know, no native linux driver exist for this card.

The current solution works fine however. If it aint broken, don't fix it.

Peter

[tempestuous]

svanand,
Did you use my Ralink package at http://mymirrors.homelinux.org/puppy/wireless/ or did you compile your own?

Could you please report your success or failure with WPA? I am very interested in the whole WPA issue, and will update the rt2x00_README with your information.

The wpa_supplicant package does not support the Ralink driver, so obviously you are using Ralink's native WPA support.
I just read this link, which you probably have seen already - http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/ind ... 2500_Howto
It looks like you need "iwpriv" which is not in Puppy. I can give you this utility from Vector, if you like, as an attachment to this thread. It's only 10KB.
Also, there's some detailed information in the source - /usr/src/rt2500-1.1.0-b3/Module/iwpriv_usage.txt.

[wilcal]

For the record:

I have successfully installed Puppy to the following
Laptop using the Belkin FSD7010 PCMCIA adapter:

Dell Insperon 7500
Model PPI
Intel, Celeron 466Mhz
440BX Chipset
64MB DRAM
6.5GB HD
20VDC, 3.5A PS
Belkin Wireless G PCMCIA F5D7010, BCMWL5.INF XP2K Driver

Using the Ranish Partition manager

http://www.ranish.com/part/

I split the HD into two partitions. First partition
a 550MB Linux Swap drive, the second an ext partition.
Upon booting using the Puppy Live-CD the install
sees the swap drive and uses it properly. You do
have the option to use the ext Linux partition for
pup001 or an install.

Puppy boots to a 640x480 screen and you are given
the option to increase to 1024x760x16 and that will
work nicely.

You can then set up the Belkin FSD7010 PCMCIA adapter
by installing Perl, activating ndiswrapper, mounting
the Belkin WinBlows CD and installing the BCMWL5.INF
driver to ndiswrapper, modprobe ndiswrapper and your
on your way.

I believe that this (very weak) Laptop originally
came with WinBlows/98. Not having the original intall
disk the user attempted to install WinBlows XP Pro
into this box. It did install but complained about
insufficient resources. Boot time from power up to a
working desktop for this Laptop running XP is about 10
minutes. Once in a working desktop XP's time to bring
up "Word" was another 10 minutes or so.

Boot time for Puppy ( power up to a working desktop ) for
this laptop using the above setup, and not installed to
HD, is about 2 minutes. Once you get to a working desktop,
under Puppy, the time to bring up Abiword

http://www.abisource.com/

was right at about 11 seconds. Yes, eleven seconds.