Belkin F5D7010 Wireless 54 Mbps Notebook Card

by Belkin

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 2 inches ; 8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000085BCX
• Item model number: F5D7010
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,626 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 30, 2002

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Belkin networking presents its latest innovation, the 802.11g Wireless Notebook Network Card. The Card works as an ideal standalone to give you instant networking capabilities. It features breakthrough 802.11g technology that makes wireless file transfers and downloads faster than ever before. 802.11g technology provides you with networking speeds nearly five times faster than the current Wi-Fi (802.11b) standard. The Card sets up with the ease and the simplicity of Plug-and-Play technology on any laptop equipped with a 32-bit CardBus slot. It slides into the 32-bit CardBus slot to enable a wirelessconnection to your network. 802.11g technology is the easiest wireless network to implement. The Card uses the wireless 802.11g 2.4 GHz standard to offer you the widest working range-up to 1800 feet-and greater interoperability in mixed networking environments. 802.11g technology is backward-compatible with the 802.11b Wi-Fi networking standard, so it allows you to implement faster wireless technologies in combination with existing 802.11b Wi-Fi networks.

Product Description

Belkin networking presents its latest innovation, the 802.11g Wireless Notebook Network Card. The Card works as an ideal standalone to give you instant networking capabilities. It features breakthrough 802.11g technology that makes wireless file transfers and downloads faster than ever before. 802.11g technology provides you with networking speeds nearly five times faster than the current Wi-Fi (802.11b) standard. The Card sets up with the ease and the simplicity of Plug-and-Play technology on any laptop equipped with a 32-bit CardBus slot. It slides into the 32-bit CardBus slot to enable a wirelessconnection to your network. 802.11g technology is the easiest wireless network to implement. The Card uses the wireless 802.11g 2.4GHz standard to offer you the widest working range-up to 1800 feet-and greater interoperability in mixed networking environments. 802.11g technology is backward-compatible with the 802.11b Wi-Fi networking standard, so it allows you to implement faster wireless technologies in combination with existing 802.11b Wi-Fi networks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Linux Users Beware, March 8, 2007

By 

theblackgecko (Bozeman, MT) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Belkin F5D7010 Wireless 54 Mbps Notebook Card (Personal Computers)

I purchased this card after borrowing a card with an identical product number from a friend. My friend's card worked out of the box with my version of Ubuntu Linux.
When I received my card, it simply did not work. After doing some research, I found that I had a card with a different version number, and a different chipset. My friend's card had a chipset made by Atheros, which worked out of the box. The card that I purchased had a Broadcom chipset, which is notorious for being incompatible with Linux. Even after going to the forums, I was unable to make the card work.
Belkin is dishonest, in that it makes changes to the chipset without changing the product number, only the version number, which the consumer is not made aware of. Had I been aware that the card had a different chipset, I would not have ordered it.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Belkin's downloadable drivers do not function!, November 10, 2005

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J. P. Robinson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Belkin F5D7010 Wireless 54 Mbps Notebook Card (Personal Computers)

I am writing this here for anyone having trouble installing this card using Belkin's drivers from their support website.

Simply they are not the right drivers & will not work!

For a working driver for Win9x/2K/XP copy the following into the address bar: http://www.ralinktech.com/drivers/Windows/IS_STA_2500_D-3.0.3.0_U-2.3.6.0_042505_1.0.2.0.exe

This driver is from the actual chipmaker and works fine :-)

Ralink's name for the product is 11g-RT2500 and downloads for other OS's including Mac can be found here: http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm

I hope this helps to shortcut somebody's efforts to get this card working...

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works well in Linux, December 14, 2006

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Andrew M. Matta - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Belkin F5D7010 Wireless 54 Mbps Notebook Card (Personal Computers)

I was looking for a card that I could use easily in GNU/Linux without trying to emulate Windows drivers. I'd read that this was possible with this card so I decided to try it out. I'm running Debian with a 2.6.17 kernel. All it took was the following: download MadWifi (free, open source), extract the program, run 'make', 'make install', then 'modprobe ath_pci'. Using KNetworkManager you can then connect to any detected networks and easily switch between wired and wireless networks. It seems to work very well so far.

I have not tested the card in Windows, although since it was designed for Windows yet works well in Linux I can only assume that it will work at least as well in Windows. According to the very simple-looking quick start guide, Windows users need only insert the CD, go through a standard install wizard, and plug the card in to have it work.

I have used Belkin products in the past and have never been disappointed; it doesn't seem like this product will break that chain.