Getting Belkin Fd7051 wireless USB stick to work
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Hi...
I looked up the error message that you mentioned in the video and found these two Ubuntu threads that might help you fix the issue with ndiswrapper. I would encourage you to first check with Belkin to ensure that they do not restrict the use of their Windows driver in Linux...
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1987695
http://askubuntu.com/questions/132894/h ... -not-found
I'm not sure if swapping out the kernel will fix this issue.
Regards...
I looked up the error message that you mentioned in the video and found these two Ubuntu threads that might help you fix the issue with ndiswrapper. I would encourage you to first check with Belkin to ensure that they do not restrict the use of their Windows driver in Linux...
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1987695
http://askubuntu.com/questions/132894/h ... -not-found
I'm not sure if swapping out the kernel will fix this issue.
Regards...
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"nothing" is actually good. It means that "ndiswrapper" is now a properly registered kernel module within the filesystem.Cliffy wrote:I typed in the depmod -a and used ndiswrapper and got nothing
What happens when you now run the Network Wizard?
If there's an error, what is the exact error message?
Hopefully the error message will NOT be "Module ndiswrapper not found" -
because, in theory, this should have been resolved by you earlier having run "depmod -a".
Tempestuous - Thanks for your help.
I tried the connection wizzard, ndiswrapper and got..
ndiswdm : driver installed
device (4317:0711) present . I then clicked ok.
got this.
Loading ndiswrapper failed with the following message:
maybe try a different driver.
Here is the video of me doing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1G1ozX ... P7GfqtfxoQ
Thanks for all the help.
I tried the connection wizzard, ndiswrapper and got..
ndiswdm : driver installed
device (4317:0711) present . I then clicked ok.
got this.
Loading ndiswrapper failed with the following message:
maybe try a different driver.
Here is the video of me doing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1G1ozX ... P7GfqtfxoQ
Thanks for all the help.
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From your video I see that some progress has been made - the ndiswrapper kernel module attempts to load, but fails, with this message -
Puppy has attempted to capture the actual error message, but failed - that's why the entire second line of the onscreen prompt is missing.
I don't think the exact error message is important, the fact is that ndiswrapper has failed. Typical situation. As far as I'm concerned, ndiswrapper should only be considered a last resort.
Sure, Semme is correct - it's feasible that a different version of ndiswrapper might work. But I, for one, wouldn't bother spending the time and effort.
If you want Puppy + wifi, get yourself a Linux-friendly wifi dongle.
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Loading ndiswrapper failed with the following message:
Maybe try a different driver.
I don't think the exact error message is important, the fact is that ndiswrapper has failed. Typical situation. As far as I'm concerned, ndiswrapper should only be considered a last resort.
Sure, Semme is correct - it's feasible that a different version of ndiswrapper might work. But I, for one, wouldn't bother spending the time and effort.
If you want Puppy + wifi, get yourself a Linux-friendly wifi dongle.