I have a iMac G3 450 Mhz running OS 10.4 and can't get the adapter to work
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Belkin F5D7050 Wireless USB on Mac OS 9.2.2?
 

Did anyone ever find a hack or workaround for being able to run the Belkin F5D7050 Wireless USB card on a Mac OS 9.2.2 machine?
I'm literally at CompUSA right now thinking about buying the Belkin Wireless Pre-N Router. I have a Mac mini on order, which I know it will work with, but also three older G3 Macs running OS 9.2.2 that I'd love to be able to connect to this network.

The lady at Belkin tech support told me the F5D6050 card would work with those older Mac, but they don't have any at this store. Any help or suggestions anyone in the group has would be greatly appreciated!

try this: http://macwireless.com/html/products...rds/11bUSB.php ;) :) ...worked great for me :) http://forums.macosxhints.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

Maybe because it costs $99 while the Belkin costs $30 to $40?

Maybe because the one at MacWireless does not support WPA?

It's more expensive because it's a quality product and actually does work as advertised (and the drivers are very stable), it's well worth the $99 if you're serious about adding USB Wireless abilities to your AirPortless mac...as for WPA, although it's not listed as one of the features on the site I'm sure it does support it as it's a standard wireless feature AFAIK now adays...you could email MacWireless and I'm sure they'd confirm that theory (and yes you probably guessed by now, I am a very happy and satisfied customer of theirs, but no I don't work there/for them :p )

Can't get my Belkin F5D7050uk to install.
 

Hi everyone, this is my first post, I am a complete Mac novice so I hope you will tell me I am doing something simple wrong.

I am running a mac mini with OSX 10.3.7

My Belkin adapter has 3000UK written on the box.

I downloaded the Version 2 drivers from the Belkin site (as this is all that is available), installed it but nothing.

In the 'About my Mac' section I can see the adapter as a USB device so it is working but it doesn't appear in the Network section as a new network adapter.

When I try and use the Belkin software (which has appeared in my applications section) it says it can't see the device.

What am I doing wrong?

Help.

Many thanks in advance.

Matt.

Download the driver from here http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm as suggested by primal 1 on page 2 of this subject - it worked for me using Tiger OS!

lawsonium: You didn't buy the macwireless.com usb adapter ;) :p

Problems problems.
 

maclova - Not very helpful thank you.

arrows - I have downloaded and installed them but the problem is the same. Could it be due to my version being 3000?

Matt.

Here are drivers for older RT73 chipset F5D7050
 

Some guy somewhere was claiming all Belkin F5D7050's used Railink RT2500 chips. It ain't so. Perhaps the F5D7050v2's do (which apparently have a sticker on the box saying '2000' or '2001', or something). But the plain old F5D7050 uses an RT73 chip. At least the one I got from Agro does - check out the windows filenames on the CD.

If anyone else was a victim of this guys optimism and bought a regular F5D7050 like me. Try the RT71W OSX driver from http://www.railink.com/supp-1.htm (RT71W_D-1.0.5.0 UI-1.2.4.0 2005_11_25.dmg).

The file contains installers for both Tiger & Panther. I didn't test the Panther one. Once the installer's up and running it reveals itself to support the RT73 chipset also. Perhaps these chips are one and the same, no idea, but I posted this using it. (white ibook g3 dual usb (ibook2))

There's a couple of odd things - the ibook I'm using won't recognize the F5D7050 if you boot with it in (see System Profiler). Take it out and put it back and it appears (refresh system profiler to see). Also, probably cos of this, I had to start the wireless utility manually from the Applications folder.

As with most of these drivers, don't forget to set it up in Network Preferences after you reboot - whereupon it will become en1 or something (I got en3, but I've been messing with lots of drivers tonight - cos of that... guy).
Good luck

Struggling with Belkin G USB network adapter
 

I've just been following strifer's step by step guide and hit a wall. I downloaded and installed the F5D7050_10-3 driver, plugged in the usb wireless device, rebooted and nothing happened. The Belkin utility did not open automatically and register with the wireless network, and did not prompt me in any way. I opened the utility manually, clicked on add and got the prompt "Device not exist Please insert your network card and insert profile"

Preferences/network gave no indication of a new network adaptor.

I'm trying to run this on a G4 quicksilver running OS X 10.3.9

I'm afraid I'm pretty crap on setting up/entering profiles and configurations etc as I don't know what half of them mean so please explain things slowly. I won't be in the least bit offended if you talk to me like a child. Actually a child would probably understand a whole lot better.

Kerry

Anyone who is trying to use the Belkin F5D-7050 there is a version # by the UPC code on the box, if you have ver. 3000 Belkin has not written drivers for it yet. If you have ver. 2000 or 2011 they have drivers for them. the driver listed above only work with 2000, 2011. I had the same problem on the iBook G3 talked to tech support at Belkin this is what the told me. I returned it and got ver. 2011 put it in and it worked fine.

ver 3000 sussed
 

Hi, after 3 days of trying to figure this, I found on a different forum that to use the ver 3000 adapter, you need to use the RT71W driver from the Ralink site as listed above. Hope this helps.
Phil.
p.s. am still figuring out how to access internet but am sure I'll get there soon.

Hey everyone.

I am a new mac owner. I have a imac G3 OSX 10.3 and recently purchased the Belkin
F5D7050 V2 and previously with my Linksys WRT54G (Using WEP)router I was able to connect using the Belkin drivers. Albiet the imac never detected the F5D7050 on boot I would have to unplug and reseat the USB cable then it would come up and I could surf until I had to reboot again.

The imac has not been used often at all. Until last night I wanted to set it up to be used just for surfing the net and look up email and misc things. Now It keeps dropping the signal. and Here is what has changed since I last used it successfully:

I have changed routers now I have a Linksys WRT55AG router and Im using WPA. I installed the http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm that Wayne had found and it actually finds the USB device on boot now which is great but stll have the signal drop issues. I tried lowering the power rating on each setting with no change. So it basically has a good strong signal for about 5 seconds then it says disconnected for about another few seconds then comes right back again Does anyone have any suggestions? I havent tried changing my wireless security to wep as this is not something I would do to fix it eitherway. But for testin purposes I could try it to see if that makes a difference.

I just wanted to bounce this off the experts here appreciate the help.

Dave

RT71W on iBook G3 OSX WirelessUtilityRT73USB Belkin Router 54g
 

Aloha from Maui!
Here's how I connected my iBook G3 OSX to my Belkin Wireless G USB Network Adapter. Yes, it's the version 3000, as I got it from CompUSA in Honolulu. Big up!!

First off, Belkin hasn't done it's own version of the driver necessary, so you'll have to download the version from http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm

http://www.ralinktech.com/drivers/Ma...2005_11_25.dmg

Next, install the driver and reboot. Here's a catch, you'll also have to do a {Apple Menu} Software Update for your system software, if it doesn't already have the Airport Express support.

If you need to, reboot again to effect the changes of the software update. The Ralink utilities should install themselves in the Applications subdirectory. The executable is called WirelessUtilityRT3USB. Search for it (Apple-F) if it's not there. If you can't find it, it's not installed.

Double-click the WirelessUtilityRT3USB file and you'll see the Tabs:
Profile - Link Status - Site Survey - Statistics - Advanced - About
The Profile menu usually executes it's script when you execute the file, but hasn't worked reliably. As you don't already have a profile, to create one you click the Add button. As my firewall/wireless router is also Belkin, I'll assume you have it set to Channel 1. I know you should have your SSID off, as broadcasting it leaves you open to Wardrivers, but for configuration...turn it on. This allows the software on the Mac to sniff out the router without manually inputting the SSID. I tried it with the SSID off, but couldn't get the initial configuration to connect.

I set the Power Saving Mode to CAM (Constantly Awake Mode) and the Network Type to Infrastructure. I tried it other ways, but could only get it to work this way. Once again, the Channel was set to 1, as I couldn't get the program to work with any other channel (at least during my initial setup).

On the Authentication & Security Tab, you can set it to Open if you have it set accordingly on the router. For my example I have my router set to WPA, to share a key between the wireless devices and the router. The password you set on the router's WPA-PSK is what you'll have to put into the WPA Pre-Shared Key. The Encryption I set was TKIP.

Link Status:
The Status will tell you if there's a link between your computer and router. If it's Disconnected, go to Site Survey and click Rescan. The computer will scan the 802.11 frequency to find your router's SSID. If/when it finds it, you'll see it there. Click Connect, and the Profile window appears. You may have to manually put in your WPA Pre-Shared Key again (bypassing your profile). Click Activate. If all is set up correctly, you will connect to the router. Go to System Preferences and click Network. Under the Show pulldown window, go to Network Port Configurations. My computer automatically recognized the Belkin External Ethernet Adapter as en1. Click Show >Ethernet Adaptor (en1), go to the TCP/IP tab and assuming you have your Wireless Router set to DHCP, Configure IPv4 to "Using DHCP" then click Renew DHCP Lease. Voila...you're connected and can now surf. If this didn't work, try emailing me and I'll see if I can revise this installation doc to be more specific.

Dreadlocked Rastas know IP, too! Ta-Dow!

"What does it profit a man, to gain the ways of the world and lose his soul?"
Mark 8:34-38

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i have the 'uk3000' version, and i am running tiger (10.4.4) on a G3 iBook, i've been following the instructions on this site with little joy.
First of all I managed to get it to recognise my wireless router, but not connect to it, and then it would say it's connected to it, but not let me browse the internet. A couple of minutes ago it connected for about 5 seconds, with strong signal, but then suddenly cut out for about 10 seconds and then connected again, but i was able to load my home page in this time, so maybe i'm on the right track.

I'm using the RT71W driver, i'm setting up an unsecured wireless network, since the encryption does nothing but confuse me, and i don't live close enough to any of my neighbours for them to get on my network.

Can anyone help me out?
I'm pretty new to macs, i only got this yesterday, after being a windows user for the last few years since my old iMac got too old, and i'm finding it hard to find my way around osx again.

thanks, james.

i've now downgraded my ibook to 10.3.9 as it seemed to work fine on my imac running panther.
however this didn't work.

is it possible that this could be an iBook problem?

I turned off IPv6 in the Network Preferences, which let me use it for about 10 minutes without disconnecting, i don't understand how it did this and then returned to it's previous state without any settings being changed at all.

I want to connect to my netgear wireless router, most people trying to do this look like they're using an airport base station, could this make a difference?

I'm getting pretty desperate for this to work now.
If anyone is running the 3000uk version of this card under panther or tiger could email me at twoplustwoequalsfive [at] gmail [dot] com to compare settings it would help a lot.

now i've set it to run everything as slow as possible, which doesn't really effect my internet connection, it just has a mind of its own, sometimes it works fine for hours, others it won't connect for more than a few seconds again.
I still get near to 100% connection quality, but this doesn't seem to matter.
I hate to look like i'm begging, but i'm really out of ideas, i've looked up just about everything i can about this card in the last week, and i've got nowhere.

My experience with Belkin f5d7050 USB dongle, version 3000uk
 

With the help of various forums I (apparently) successfully installed the f5d7050 uk3000 version on my Ti G4 powerbook running OS 10.3.4 (maybe 10.3.5 - I forget), using the ralink RT71 driver (which incidentally runs as WirelessUtilityRT73USB.app). It worked fine for a couple of hours, long enough to download and install 10.3.9. After that it randomly disconnected after very few minutes. I am using a Belkin wireless router. At the same location as the Ti G4, an Al G4 with airport works fine with strong signal.

The signal reported by the driver UI switches randomly between -1db and -44 db. If I locate the powerbook with the Belkin dongle within a few feet of the router, the signal still switches randomly, but doesn't drop out.

If I install the dongle on the Al G4 running 10.4.3 (using the ralink driver for 10.4), it behaves the same way - disconnecting at random unless I am very close to the router.

I suspect a bug in the driver. Until it gets sorted, I'll be using a wired connection.

Clive

Eureka!
 

A guy seems to have found the answer to all of our prayers.

I still haven't tried it, though.

Look in http://61.222.76.235/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=6355&

Good luck!

Quico.
From València.