[CentOS] Belkin F5D6050 USB Wireless in CentOS 4.2

Mon Dec 19 14:19:32 UTC 2005
Barry Brimer <barry.brimer at bigfoot.com>

Quoting Rick Philbrick <rickphilbrick at gmail.com>:

> On 12/18/05, Barry Brimer <barry.brimer at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is anyone successfully using a Belkin F5D6050 USB Wireless in CentOS
> > 4.2?  If so, what driver are you using?  Did you have to do anything
> > special to make it work?  At this point, I have downloaded, compiled
> > installed and loaded the latest drivers from
> > http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net but lvnet is unable to find my
> > adapter.  I've tried every driver module that it created, and still no
> > luck.  Any tips, info or hints would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Barry
> >
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> Hi,
>
> Well there's another driver for the atmel based devices.  Try to find out
> what chip is in that thing.   Here's the link to the driver site
> http://at76c503a.berlios.de/
>
> You'll have to compile it against your kernel source I believe.  I use a few
> atmel based wi-fi usb cards using the above driver just fine on other linux
> boxes.  I just haven't used it on a CentOS box.

This driver works very well and on the first try.  Thank you very much.

Barry