Belkin F5D8000 Wireless Pre-N Desktop Network Card
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1 Dude! Turn the card over
J. Lovell complains that the card doesn't work with XP. Mine does, and beats hell out of the D-Link it replaced, which was always flaky and finally quit altogether (I ended up only able to talk to the router, not the Internet or the rest of the LAN). The Belkin does have a problem: crappy manual. When it says "insert card with the label side up" what it means is "insert card with the label side down." A little experimenting outside the computer reveals how the card is keyed.
2 wait
i purchased this card to work with the pre-n router the belkin offers. i should have know a better when i looked at the box that it was going to be trouble. as you can see from the picture, this is just the cardbus pre-n (f5d8010) card bundled with a pci-to-cardbus adapter. installation failed, as windows xp seems to be able to only support 16-bit pcmcia cards with the pci-to-cardbud adapter that belkin provides (ricoh r5c520-based contoller).

after multiple calls to support where they spent 10 minutes asking me if i was inserting the card correctly over and over. each call ended with either "call microsoft" or "we'll call you back within 48 hours". i'm still working this issue to resolution with belkin, but i don't hold out much hope.

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RE: Dude!

dude! i did! maybe it is a compat issue with the nForce3 chipset and the ricoh adapter. i don't know, but after replacing the card with a new one and getting the same message when the card was inserted, i quit and returned it.

"The device Ricoh R5C520 Carbus Adapter has detected a CardBus card in its slot, but the firmware on this system is not configured to allow the CardBus controller to be run in CardBus mode. The operating system will currently accept only 16-bit (R2) pc-cards on this controller."

i've worked with computer hardware for 15 years, i know how to insert a carbus card, thanks.

Thursday, 24-Jul-2008 06:50:51 CDT
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