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April 8, 2008 by branhow

hey everyone! I have noticed I have a lot of different techies that read my blog! but right quick thank you everyone for reading. I couldn’t do it without you. I’m actually going to try a different post today. It’s a question. I want to use the newest version of Ubuntu on my desktop. I’m currently running XP on it… Anyways I have a Belkin USB N Wifi stick and Ubuntu doesn’t recognize it… The model is F5D8053 and it’s a Belkin N USB wifi stick. Does anyone have any suggestions on getting this USB stick to work with the latest version of Ubuntu? Thanks for the help everyone!

Posted in linux, networking, questions, technology | Tagged belkin, networking, question, ubuntu, usb, wifi | 3 Comments

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on August 11, 2008 at 5:57 am | Reply Chris

Go to:

http://blog.vaxius.net/?p=45

Basically you need to have Belkin’s installer.exe file, wine, and ndiswrapper. Basically you end up using wine to run the .exe installer, then ndiswrapper to emulate the driver.

Note: I do need to go into terminal and “sudo modprobe ndiswrapper” every time I start up, as I haven’t put it into my auto-startup
on August 17, 2008 at 10:39 am | Reply Followup on the Belkin F5D8053 and Ubuntu » It’s all in a day’s work

[...] try it on 64-bit). There are quite some posts about getting it to work with ndiswrapper (also posts about it not working, will drop him a comment). This one also explains how to unpack the windows driver if you [...]
on August 17, 2008 at 10:43 am | Reply DelGurth

See my blogpost about it. You can get it to work with either ndiswrapper or with the native driver from ralink.