Hello, I'm new to Linux.

I'm trying to get my Wireless-N usb adapter to work with antiX. Model is Belkin F5D8053 v3.

Drivers are here:


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My install of antiX is: antiX 12 full with icewm.

I would like to know how to get my pc online via the usb adapter and how to remove the adapter from the system. I spent most of my life messing around with Windows operating systems so I haven't got a clue how to use Linux. I'm not sure that antiX is plug and play like Win XP and newer.

I have many computers in my home so I could download the drivers on a usb flash drive and install it on antiX.

First use type this command in the terminal" lsusb" then check this list to see if it has Linux support.

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If it has Linux support then we can go from there.

Your wireless usb adapter is supported by linux, open synaptic package manager and in the search box type in rt2570 then click on the check box to install the driver.

You will need an internet connection using this method.

In which repository is"rt2570" hidden?

I'm bad I tried to go from memory, but the compatible driver will be in this package.
firmware-ralink in this repository
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distro wheezy
section main contrib non-free

Is there another method to get the wifi working?

The computer with AntiX installed is upstairs. All the computers on the second floor were connected via wifi. The router is in the dinning room. I could move the computer downstairs into the living room (next to dinning room) and I got a cat5 cable long enough to hook it up.

I would be much easier to install the drivers to a usb flash drive using another computer, insert the drive and install the drivers. If this method is possible.

Sorry for the late response I have been busy.

I guess you can just as well open the link given in the previous posting
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on some other compuer and download the firmware-ralink package and put it on some usb drive to carry to your networkless system __{{emoticon}}__ ... and install it via dpkg.

I guess you can find it in /pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/.

apt-get -d install should download the pacakge to /var/apt/cache/archives
then you can copy from there to your usb stick.

alternatively you could use synaptic and check download only instead of using apt-get -d install

I download the ralink firmware from a windows laptop and installed in on a USB flash drive. SpaceFM seems like a good file manager as the others don't even detect the flash drive, they just browse the hard drive. So I used the root terminal and this is what happened:

root@antiX/home/Guest1

dpkg -i firmware-ralink_0.37_all.deb

dpkg -1 firmware-ralink_0.37_all.deb (--install)
Cannot access archive: no such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing
firmware-ralink_0.37_all.deb

end of terminal code.

I'm guess Linux just doesn't install stuff from the USB flash drive. You mite have to move stuff into the hard drive to get it working. I tried moving a folder with the .deb file inside to the desktop then ran terminal again and it didn't work. I tried using SpaceFM as root and made my own folder called"Drivers" with the .deb file inside and ran terminal again and it still didn't work. Were is the magic folder were you put .debs files in?

I'm using Rox-iceMW.

It is not what folder you put it in, but you have to tell it what folder you did put it in.
if you use rox-filer to find the .deb file, you can type dpkg -i in a roxterm, and drag&drop it from rox-filer to the the roxterm. You will get something like '/home/user/downloadsfolder/drivername.deb' but you have to remove the ' before and after the file name and location to make it work

I don't know if spacefm lets you drag&drop into a roxterm???

Okay so I need to change the location in terminal from:

root@antiX/home/Guest1

to something else, were the firmware would be located to get dpkg to install it. How do you do that?

The root@antix part, is what it is. I will try with an example of a file on my computer:

I downloaded google-chrome, and it gets placed in my downloads folder.

So, in that case, the terminal would look like:

Root@mymachine $

dpkg -i /home/myname/Downloads/google-chrome.blablabla.deb

I would suggest that you try to mount the usb stick, and use rox-filer, just so you can drag&drop the filename/path to the terminal.

Hmm, I don't know if you know how to mount something.

In antixcc, then discs, then mount connected devices, or something like that.
In the"mountbox" you have an option to wiew all connected media, so copy the name of the stick to the text box, in mountbox, and click the mount button

I am not on an antix system right now, so I am just trying to remember how it was, so it might not be right word for word, but you might get an idea, I hope.

The text in the window in mountbox looks something like this Mountpoint cdrom/media /dev/sr0, IIrc.
Remove the sr0, and add the bit from the"view connected devices" popup windowy thing.

Oh, and if you are looking in rox-filer, you need to click the"back" or"up" arrow, up on the top left, twice, IIrc, then select the media folder. That is where the sticks and so on are listed.

So it would be something like mountpoint cdrom/media/dev/sda1 (probably)

If you have more than one stick, or other thingie connected, you might find sda1 sda2, sdc1, and so on.

Sorry about the mess of a post, but I hope you can figure out what I mean

Okay I got the WiFi working, thanks rust collector.

I used Rox-Term and Rox-filer.

I set myself up as root and typed the following;

dpkg -i then dragged the firmware into the terminal. Thus making it.

dpkg -i 'home/Guest1/Drivers/firmware-ralink_0.37_all.deb'

end of code.

Rox terminal adds ' between directories. I managed to get one of the three wireless programs to work. Ceni, a old program that looks like someone's BIOS worked great. One of the wireless programs didn't even open and gave an error, the second didn't detect any wireless networks.

Also thanks spacepenguin for the link to the debian files.

wicd (probably the one that did not detect any wireless) needs you to put the wireless interface in in the preferances. For me it is wlan0 . if ceni works you can grab the name of the wireless interface from there