Ubuntu numpty question

[lauross]

I have a Belkin wireless usb dongle (F5D7050) which i want to use on ubuntu, but there are no drivers installed. I have searched on the web on how to install the drivers, but i'm not sure what most of it means. Does anyone have any experience of this, and can give me an idiots guide to installing it. I have the drivers already, but don't know what to do with them. I'm used to there just being an .EXE.
Thanks in Advance

[ThePassenger]

First of all google "Linux" and the model number of the dongle.
Wireless support is very hit n' miss on Linux for a lot of reasons I'm not going to get in to again.

You might find that ndiswrapper + windows drivers will get it running.

[zumbruk]

I don't have Ubuntu, but this looks relevant;

www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/05/2055232

[ThePassenger]

zumbruk said:

I don't have Ubuntu, but this looks relevant;

www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/09/05/2055232

That's for 6.10, 7.04 does that automatically. We need to know what version the Op is using

[lauross]

currently i'm on 6.06 as i installed it from a live CD my friend gave me. I'm going to update it now. 6.10 is what it's offering me... can i update to 7.04 from there?

[ThePassenger]

lauross said:

currently i'm on 6.06 as i installed it from a live CD my friend gave me. I'm going to update it now. 6.10 is what it's offering me... can i update to 7.04 from there?

Probably need to go to 6.10 and then 7.04 will appear as a potential update; I'd expect a lot of downloading/updating, fortunatley it cleans up after itself so it won't eat all your drive space. 6.06 (non-LTS) is long in the tooth in Linux terms.

[lauross]

haha yes, my friend said 10 months is forever in linux. first download took about 1hour 20 mins, install is 25 mins remaining. i expect i have all this to look forward to again when downloading 7.04.

[ThePassenger]

lauross said:

haha yes, my friend said 10 months is forever in linux. first download took about 1hour 20 mins, install is 25 mins remaining. i expect i have all this to look forward to again when downloading 7.04.

It is, although once you get it working properly you can either ignore the updates or just let it trundle in the background... half the time you don't need to reboot unless it's a new kernel.