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by: someara November 17, 2008 3:03 PM PST

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Belkin Wireless G notebook card

by someara - 11/17/08 3:03 PM

model # f5d7010

I had to reinstall the operating system on one of my laptops. It is running XP Pro. I now want to reconnect my belkin wireless g notebook card. I longer have the installation disk (ugh), so I went to belkin's support site. They have a whole list of drivers for this model number. I flipped my card over and it indicates it is ver. 4001, so I tried the version 4xxx driver. When I plug in my card as prompted at setup, it does not register. I feel pretty confident there is nothing wrong with the card itself. It has been very delicately used and very infrequently. I tried some of the other driver versions and they seemed to perhaps recognize the card but once the network utility screen loaded it showed no detectable networks. And I have a wireless running through the house that is just fine. I have loked through belkin literature without much luck. Is there some other pathway I should take to get this laptop up on the wireless again? Help!


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by Coryphaeus - 11/18/08 7:17 AM

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http://web.belkin.com/support/download/download.asp?download=F5D7010&lang=1&mode=


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Belkin 5d7010

by fihart - 11/19/08 12:20 AM

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If you have an early version of XP, have you reinstalled SP2 ?

I ask because I've tried using one of these Belkins on pre-SP2 XP Pro and while it installed okay it relied heavily on Windows Networking's own Wireless resources which were wildly out of date (WEP only).

Once SP2 was installed WPA was poss (albeit dreadfully confusing to set up compared with, for example, the freestanding utilities supplied with Netgear wireless adapters).

Bear in mind that the Belkin cost me 1 (say $1.50) in a flea market. This is a strong clue that this is a very old model -- and while it works fine for me, maybe a newer design would work better.


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