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Subject: Re: Belkin F5D7050 V3 - FreeBSD 6.2
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rjsdg@sapo.pt wrote:
> Grettings from Lisbon, Portugal
> 
> I'm struggling to get my Belkin 54g F5D7050 V3 Wireless USB Network card 
> to work in FreeBSD 6.2 and still can't get it work.
> 
> When FreeBSD starts gives me the adapter on ugen0 identifying correctly 
> the adapter "ugen0: Belkin 54g Wireless Network Card on address 2". No 
> interface for ifconfig is created and I think due to the adapter been 
> detected as a generic usb device. It's missing the correct driver to 
> load the adapter, correct?
> 
> So I tried all the solutions that I've found in the net, ural, ral, ndis 
> (ndisgen with windows drivers), etc.. and still gives me the ugen0 
> detection. I think that in this last release of FreeBSD only the version 
> 2 of the adapter was considered.
> 
> Ndis doesn't work with USB adapters, ural and ral doesn't load the 
> adapter, so I think that a special driver is needed.
> 
> Does anyone solved the problem or created the driver for version 3 
> (Belkin F5D7050 V3xxx) for FreeBSD 6.2?

Can't speak to a V3 stick, but a driver for the F5D7050 should appear in 
HEAD any day now.

	Sam