driver support for Belkin F5D7050 v 5xxx ?
Kayven Riese
kayvey at gmail.com
Sun Nov 16 00:40:09 PST 2008
I just purchased a wireless connection device that connects to my ASUS
M6800N laptop dual
booting Vista and
KV_BSD# uname -a
FreeBSD KV_BSD 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC
2008 root at logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
KV_BSD#
via USB.
While booting on Vista, connection was fine. I investigated my man pages
for Belkin modles in
the interfaces:
V_BSD# man an | grep Belkin
KV_BSD# man awi | grep Belkin
KV_BSD# man ipw | grep Belkin
KV_BSD# set -o vi
KV_BSD# man iwi | grep Belkin
KV_BSD# man ral | grep Belkin
Belkin F5D7000 v3 RT2560 PCI
Belkin F5D7010 v2 RT2560 CardBus
KV_BSD# man rum | grep Belkin
Belkin F5D7050 ver 3 USB
Belkin F5D9050 ver 3 USB
KV_BSD# man ural | grep Belkin
Belkin F5D7050 v2000 USB
KV_BSD# man wi | grep Belkin
Belkin F5D6000 (a rebadged WL11000P)
KV_BSD# man zyd | grep Belkin
Belkin F5D7050 v.4000
KV_BSD#
and found some websites that made me compare a serial number that I
correlated to some
information on the Belkin website and came to the conclusion that my device
is a newer
version than appears in the above list because of this information:
K7SF5D7050E corresponds to version 5xxx
That serial number is written on the device.
There were no unfamiliar results of ifconfig:
KV_BSD# ifconfig
bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
ether 00:11:d8:22:c9:91
inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
fwe0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8<VLAN_MTU>
ether 02:e0:18:26:4c:e9
ch 1 dma -1
fwip0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
lladdr 0.e0.18.0.3.26.4c.e9.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu
1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
KV_BSD#
I attempted to use the ndisgen utility with the driver disk mounted on
"/mnt/drive"
KV_BSD# pwd
/mnt/drive
KV_BSD# ls
AUTORUN.INF Belkin.ico Installer.exe UserManual
Acrobat Reader InstallationFiles Installer.ini
KV_BSD# cd InstallationFiles
KV_BSD# ls
Belkin.bmp Setup.exe VistaX64 WinXP2K data1.hdr
layout.bin
ISSetup.dll Setup.ini VistaX86 _Setup.dll data2.cab
SETUP.ISS Setup.inx WinX64 data1.cab ikernel.ex_
KV_BSD# ls WinXP2K
BLKWGU.inf BLKWGU.sys blkwgu.cat
twice, once using the BLKWGU.inf and BLKWGU.sys files from the WinXP2K
directory and again
adding the blkwgu.cat file using the menu that ndisgen gives, and both times
it terminated
with success:
==================================================================
------------------ Windows(r) driver converter -------------------
==================================================================
Kernel module generation
The script will now try to generate the kernel driver module.
This is the last step. Once this module is generated, you should
be able to load it just like any other FreeBSD driver module.
Press enter to compile the stub module and generate the driver
module now:
Generating Makefile... done.
Building kernel module... done.
Cleaning up... done.
The file BLKWGU_sys.ko has been successfully generated.
You can kldload this module to get started.
Press return to exit.
When I tried to use the kldload command in both cases, the system rebooted.
I messed around with /boot/loader.conf, including many of the interfaces
that were
noted above "man if | grep Belkin," and right now this is what it looks
like:
KV_BSD# cat /boot/loader.conf
hint.ichss.0.disabled="1"
W32DRIVER_load="YES"
wlan_load="YES"
firmware_load="YES"
if_zyd_load="YES"
wlan_scan_ap_load="YES"
wlan_scan_sta_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
I note that the device is showing up in dmesg
KV_BSD# dmesg | grep Belkin
ugen0: <vendor 0x050d Belkin Wireless G USB Adapter, class 0/0, rev
2.00/2.00, addr 2> on uhub3
ugen0: <vendor 0x050d Belkin Wireless G USB Adapter, class 0/0, rev
2.00/2.00, addr 2> on uhub3
ugen0: <vendor 0x050d Belkin Wireless G USB Adapter, class 0/0, rev
2.00/2.00, addr 2> on uhub3
ugen0: <vendor 0x050d Belkin Wireless G USB Adapter, class 0/0, rev
2.00/2.00, addr 2> on uhub3
KV_BSD#
some other info..
KV_BSD# pciconf -lv
hostb0 at pci0:0:0:0: class=0x060000 card=0x186a1043 chip=0x33408086
rev=0x21 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Cor
.
.
none1 at pci0:0:31:6: class=0x070300 card=0x18261043 chip=0x24c68086
rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem
Controller'
class = simple comms
subclass = generic modem
vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x17721043 chip=0x4e501002
rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc'
device = 'Mobility Radeon 9700 (M10 NP) (RV350)'
class = display
subclass = VGA
bge0 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x17351043 chip=0x169c14e4 rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Broadcom Corporation'
device = 'BCM5788 Broadcom NetLink (TM) Gigabit Ethernet'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
cbb0 at pci0:2:1:0: class=0x060700 card=0x18641043 chip=0x04761180 rev=0xac
hdr=0x02
vendor = 'Ricoh Company, Ltd.'
device = 'unknown Ricoh R/RL/5C476(II)'
class = bridge
subclass = PCI-CardBus
cbb1 at pci0:2:1:1: class=0x060700 card=0x18641043 chip=0x04761180 rev=0xac
hdr=0x02
vendor = 'Ricoh Company, Ltd.'
device = 'unknown Ricoh R/RL/5C476(II)'
class = bridge
subclass = PCI-CardBus
fwohci0 at pci0:2:1:2: class=0x0c0010 card=0x18671043 chip=0x05521180
rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Ricoh Company, Ltd.'
device = 'RL5c552 IEEE-1394 Controller'
class = serial bus
subclass = FireWire
none2 at pci0:2:2:0: class=0x028000 card=0x10008086 chip=0x42238086 rev=0x05
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
device = '2915ABG Intel (R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection,
(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection'
class = network
KV_BSD# usbdevs -v
Controller /dev/usb0:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
port 1 powered
port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb1:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
port 1 addr 2: low speed, power 100 mA, config 1, USB Optical
Mouse(0xc019), Logitech(0x046d), rev 43.01
port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb2:
addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hub(0x0000),
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
port 1 powered
port 2 powered
Controller /dev/usb3:
addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x0000),
Intel(0x0000), rev 1.00
port 1 powered
port 2 addr 2: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, Belkin Wireless G USB
Adapter(0x705e), vendor 0x050d(0x050d), rev 2.00
port 3 powered
port 4 powered
port 5 powered
port 6 powered
KV_BSD# exit
Thanks to anyone in advance who gives me the time of day. I looked at some
of the archives and felt these two
lists seemed appropriate. Forgive me if I misused the lists.
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Kayven Riese, BSCS,
MS (Physiology and Biophysics)
(415) 902 5513 cellular
http://kayve.net
Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org
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