@shinjii: "I downloaded the drivers for the chipset my belkin wireless card has, used 
ndisgen to create the kernel module, which all went aok .. however when 
trying to load the module it hard hangs the machine to the point of it 
restarting itself .. is there something i perhaps mybe missing or am i out in 
the cold in not being able to use this wireless card untill some time a 
freebsd driver is done ?"
    @utisoft: "<quote>
Which Belkin wireless card do you have? Which arch are you running (i386/amd64)?
I had horrific trouble with a Belkin on the Realtek chipset, played up
with Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Fedora, even Windows!
Trouble with Belkin is, you never know what you're getting. You need
the revision number of the card, and then find out which chipset it
is. Make sure the drivers you downloaded are for that exact revision.
Hope you have more luck than I did, I tossed mine and bought a Ralink.
Chris"
    @shinjii: "<quote>
AMD64 Arch & ironically it worked beautifully for ages in windows, but i  got 
sick of windows having been used to FreeBSD, so i re-installed FreeBSD an 
using the onboard LAN card atm, but am wanting to goto wireless.
none1@pci0:3:5:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x700f1799 chip=0x700f1799 
rev=0x20 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Belkin Research and Development Labs'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
Chipset is RT8185L an i used the ndisgen to create the .ko file, which is just 
over 572kb in size.
ironically the 8180 works fine, but naturally wont do my wireless card."
    @swhetzel: "<quote>
Which Belkin Wireless card is this? (Name/Model)
Could you provide a link to the driver you downloaded.
When you ran ndisgen to create the kernel module, did you specify the
32bit driver or the 64bit driver?  You should be using the 64bit
driver on FreeBSD/amd64.
When you kldloaded the kernel module, did it indicate any required
NDIS functions were missing?
Scot"
    @shinjii: "<quote>
none1@pci0:3:5:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x700f1799 chip=0x700f1799 
rev=0x20 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Belkin Research and Development Labs'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
Chipset is RT8185L an i used the ndisgen to create the .ko file, which is just 
over 572kb in size.
ironically the 8180 works fine, but naturally wont do my wireless card."
    @shinjii: "<quote>
No idea what name//Model .. all i know is its Belkin and on the card itself it 
has RT8185L on the sticker.  I dont have any of the original box etc as it 
was tossed quite some time ago ironically.
The driver i downloaded was directly from the realtek website and it was the 
64bit version. below is the link to the site that has the file i d/l
<url>
Only downloaded the 64bit version
When i did the kldload i instantly lost all functionality of the computer 
system untill it rebooted itself."
    @utisoft: "2008/8/11 Warren Liddell <email_address>:
<quote>
This card I have also had problems with. It appears to be an 8185, but
nothing works with it. Even in Windows, unless you have the Belkin
drivers, it won't work properly.
I couldn't load the Windows driver with ndisgen either, and
ndiswrapper in Linux doesn't work either, nor does the Realtek Linux
driver.
R< $&h ! > $- ! $+	$@ $2 < @ $1 .UUCP. > (sendmail.cf)"
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