Belkin Wireless USB Adapter not working

[Sam Varshavchik]

Suraj Polade writes:

> As my desktop did not have inbuilt Wireless, i have bought the Belkin 
> (Model F7D2101 v1) wireless adapter,
> 
> 
> but this adapter is not detecting in Fedora core 13, does any one knows, 
> how to make it work
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help

Have you tried using Google to help yourself? If you did, using Google to 
search for "Belkin F7D2101 Linux" quickly returned a bunch of hits. And the 
very first search result offers two possible answers, as far as Fedora is 
concerned:

1) This router is not supported by the default Linux kernel, it does not 
have a kernel driver for it; the Ubuntu-specific hack needs some non-free 
drivers in the Ubuntu kernel, from some unspecified source.

2) It is supported by the stock kernel, but it needs a firmware file.

Which one is the case can be determined simply by looking at your 
/var/log/messages, and seeing if the kernel is asking for the firmware but 
can't find it, when it boots, hence no support. If that's the case, the 
first hit on Google gives you a good tip on the whereabouts of the firmware 
file.

And, if installing the firmware makes no difference, I don't see any other 
option.

Generally, before buying any hardware, some brief investigation with Google 
is highly recommended.

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