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Edubuntu 7.10 and the NDISwrapper with a Belkin FSD7000

Posted on January 3rd, 2008 in Main

This year we decided to mix together a computer for my son Logan.

Ingredients:

1Dell Omniplex GX260.
1 Keyboard
1 Mouse,
1 Samsung 19” flat screen
1 Belkin FSD7000
1 Pinch of Edubuntu.

In a small lab/table assemble all the hard ingredients.
Stir in the software. Install at low speed for about 1 hour.

Now that, my friends, could be a recipe for disaster. Did you ever notice that food recipes do in fact give you all the ingredients but come up a bit short on the techniques to accomplish the desired results? Just like the icing on the provable cake I hit the wall trying to get the Belkin card working with the ndiswrapper. My thought process was I will just cook up this box and then by the power of the ndiswrapper just wrap up the ini/sys file and go on my merry way.

Like a kid in the kitchen I was bound to make a mess of this, and so let me teach you how to do this the correct way the first time so that you don’t need to make a mess.

First and foremost the card is not a Belkin card! So the Belkin drivers don’t work! When I looked at my card I saw a chip that says Realtek 8185. So below you will find a step by step install guild.

Step one download and install the ndiswrapper.

Next you will want to get the net8185.inf you can get them from here. I used the one labeled Driver_1097_2KXP.

Next you will bring up the Terminal, from the Applications Accessories menu.
sudo ndiswrapper -m

Extract the net8185.inf and rtl8185.sys files to a folder. Change to that folder in the Terminal.
cd /home/logan/ndis

Install the driver with the ndiswrapper.
sudo ndiswrapper -i net8185.inf

Next I had to find out where on the pci bus my card was.
lspci -n

Mine is on 1799:7000f so now I need to tie the wrapper to the driver.
sudo ndiswrapper -a 1799:7000f net8185

Now I needed to insert the module into my kernel.
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

Two more steps.
sudo -i
echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules

This worked out for me! Hopefully this will help aspiring Edubuntu box cookers.