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droid

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 19

wireless dongle madness

hi, I just installed arch gimmick, and I'm having no luck installing a belkin wireless USB dongle. any help is appreciated.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: wireless dongle madness

You need to identify the chipset it uses, and from that the correct driver. If there's no linux driver for it, you may be able to use ndiswrapper.

arooaroo

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2005-01-13

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Re: wireless dongle madness

A quick google suggests RELINK chipset.

This site may be helpful: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page .

EDIT

Oh, would you look at that!? http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/S … Linux.html

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droid

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 19

Re: wireless dongle madness

ok, I've downloaded the driver and followed through with this, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RT73_Wireless, which goes ok except when I use iwconfig towards the end, my dongle doesnt show up

arkanoid

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Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 25

Re: wireless dongle madness

do you see your interface when you do ifconfig ?

droid

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Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 19

Re: wireless dongle madness

sorted that problem using NDISWrapper, thanks for the replies.