HowTo: Belkin F5D6050 & Xubuntu 12.04
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 5:47 am
I wanted to use my good old Belkin F5D6050 USB wireless adapter on Xubuntu 12.04.1.
When plugged in, the light goes orange. If it doesn't, try a different cable (just had that problem here...)
Then see if it shows up:
That should return something like this:
By default, the proprietary firmware is not installed:
The Atmel drivers for this chipset are actually included now in the standard repositories.
Package name: "atmel-firmware"
Unfortunately, that package conflicts with "linux-firmware". This is not good.
Therefore, download the package source (that includes the firmware binary blobs):
This will create a folder called "atmel-firmware-x.y" (where "x.y" is the version. e.g. "atmel-firmware-1.3").
Copy all the .bin files in the subfolder "images.usb" to "/lib/firmware".
I'm currently having problems verifying that it works, because when trying to connect to a WPA/WPA2 secured WiFi network, it throws the following error in "dmesg":
To be continued...
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When plugged in, the light goes orange. If it doesn't, try a different cable (just had that problem here...)
Then see if it shows up:
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$ lsusb | grep BelkinRun "dmesg" to see if the firmware was loaded:Bus 001 Device 009: ID 0d5c:a002 SMC Networks, Inc. SMC2662W v2 / SMC2662W-AR / Belkin F5D6050 [Atmel at76c503a]
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$ dmesgThe link to the firmware is outdated and invalid.[ 6827.201271] usb 1-1.3: new full-speed USB device number 9 using ehci_hcd
[ 6827.295331] usb 1-1.3: firmware atmel_at76c503-rfmd-acc.bin not found!
[ 6827.295336] usb 1-1.3: you may need to download the firmware from http://developer.berlios.de/projects/at76c503a/
[ 6827.295344] at76c50x-usb: probe of 1-1.3:1.0 failed with error -2
The Atmel drivers for this chipset are actually included now in the standard repositories.
Package name: "atmel-firmware"
Unfortunately, that package conflicts with "linux-firmware". This is not good.
Therefore, download the package source (that includes the firmware binary blobs):
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$ apt-get source atmel-firmwareCopy all the .bin files in the subfolder "images.usb" to "/lib/firmware".
I'm currently having problems verifying that it works, because when trying to connect to a WPA/WPA2 secured WiFi network, it throws the following error in "dmesg":
See: http://www.das-werkstatt.com/forum/werk ... f=7&t=2255phy2: at76_wait_completion failed: 7
To be continued...
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