Belkin f5d7010 piece of crap?

I heard of people having problems with this pci card in such an extend
I never could believe it was really true until yesterday. I tried to
install a Belkin f5d7010 in my Toshiba Satellite and failed. Simply
there is no way to make it work so I guess the card is faulty and
probably broken for good. BTW the card was working in another Toshiba
Satellite at my office. What a piece of crap! Is it possible that a
PCI plug&play card burns so easily in 2005? And YES, after 20 years
dealing with computers I know how to handle a PCI card.

jcrevani wrote:
> I heard of people having problems with this pci card in such an extend
> I never could believe it was really true until yesterday. I tried to
> install a Belkin f5d7010 in my Toshiba Satellite and failed. Simply
> there is no way to make it work so I guess the card is faulty and
> probably broken for good. BTW the card was working in another Toshiba
> Satellite at my office. What a piece of crap! Is it possible that a
> PCI plug&play card burns so easily in 2005? And YES, after 20 years
> dealing with computers I know how to handle a PCI card.
>
Are you making a statement or trying to ask a question?

On 24 Dec 2005 05:13:51 -0800, "jcrevani" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I heard of people having problems with this pci card in such an extend
>I never could believe it was really true until yesterday. I tried to
>install a Belkin f5d7010 in my Toshiba Satellite and failed. Simply
>there is no way to make it work so I guess the card is faulty and
>probably broken for good. BTW the card was working in another Toshiba
>Satellite at my office. What a piece of crap! Is it possible that a
>PCI plug&play card burns so easily in 2005? And YES, after 20 years
>dealing with computers I know how to handle a PCI card.

Well, with 20 years of experience, you should probably have supplied
the model number of the Toshiba Satellite laptop and the operating
system used. You should also have noted that the Belkin f5d7010 is a
CardBus card for a laptop, not a PCI card, which would be for a
desktop. It would really have been nice if you supplied the hardware
version of the card, and the version of the driver you've failed to
install.

The Belkin f5d7010 v2 has a problem. The support page shows v1
through v4 models. The posted drivers for the v1 model work just
fine. The posted drivers for the v2 model fail miserably. I don't
know about v3 or v4. Go unto:
| http://www.belkin.com/support/ (insert model number)
and note the 4 versions which you didn't bother to specify. Just to
make it interesting, the v2 model does not say v2 on the serial number
label, but does look like the photo on the support page.

The problem was covered in a previous posting at:
| http://groups.google.com/group/alt.i...cb5d5af094e905
Basically, only the v2 driver that comes on the original CDROM seems
to work. I have customers that bought a few of these and that's what
I had to do to make them work. I would offer to email a copy of the
original cdrom for the v2 but I couldn't find it.

For additional entertainment, try asking Belkin why the downloaded v2
driver is named:
F5D7010_V2_UK.EXE
which implies that it's for UK, not US, which have different
regulatory domains.

In the future, if you have a problem, complaint, rant or combination
thereof, kindly supply enough information so that a reader can
determine if the problem also applies to their own system.

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Jeff Liebermann <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> The Belkin f5d7010 v2 has a problem. The support page shows v1
> through v4 models. The posted drivers for the v1 model work just
> fine. The posted drivers for the v2 model fail miserably. I don't
> know about v3 or v4. Go unto:
> | http://www.belkin.com/support/ (insert model number)
> and note the 4 versions which you didn't bother to specify. Just to
> make it interesting, the v2 model does not say v2 on the serial number
> label, but does look like the photo on the support page.
>
> The problem was covered in a previous posting at:
> | http://groups.google.com/group/alt.i...cb5d5af094e905
> Basically, only the v2 driver that comes on the original CDROM seems
> to work. I have customers that bought a few of these and that's what
> I had to do to make them work. I would offer to email a copy of the
> original cdrom for the v2 but I couldn't find it.

About a year ago, Belkin did something very stupid: they changed the
chipset used in their wireless adapters but didn't change the model
numbers for the cards. To make matters worse, they also didn't update
the specs published on their web site. Some Mac users bought these cards
only to find that, unlike the previous Broadcom-based versions, the new
cards no longer worked with Apple's AirPort driver. When they called
Belkin tech support, they were told things like "We don't support Macs."
It looks like the web page for the F5D7010 still contains erroneous
information about OS support.

For this reason -- and others, like the famous decision to have their
routers occasionally redirect traffic to Belkin web pages -- it's best
to avoid Belkin wireless products: you never really know what you're
getting. I have no qualms about Belkin's cables, hubs, and other
accessories; but their wireless networking division is a mess.

I understand what you mean. The f5d7010 fails very easily as you say.
I did blown one new card on my Toshiba Satellite too. I prefer to stay
away from Belkin.

Santa Claus did the trick. I got a gift: a 'Linksys WPC54G Wireless-G
Notebook Adapter.' It works like a dream matching my Linksys Wireless-G
router. BTW, the f5d7010 is broken, burned, kaputt.