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milkshake
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here are some working drivers i managed to get from the fella in this forum http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthrea...ighlight=driver

thought i might share them for the community.

 

10.3

10.4

10.5

 

please read the instructions in the attatchement and if possible give thanks to the person that sorted it out in the forum link i gave above.

 

Hope this works out for you all! works for me on leopard.

SET_UP_Belkin_F5D_8053_Wireless_N_USB__.doc.zip

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arj00n
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This works perfectly as described in the attached instuctions. after installing the driver,I just put my DYNEX USB G (U950731G)adapter and it picked up immediately. The only thing is at every restart I have to plug the adapter again for it to recognize.Thanks for preparing the guide and also providing links to the drivers. I recommend this to everyone trying to get the internet working with USD adapter.

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totallybonkers
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Hello,

I am the "fellow from the other forum" the drivers originated with me. I had the first correspondance with Ralink about creating drivers for the Belkin F5D 8053 wireless N USB adapter. After many emails they finally answered me and we corresponded about creating the drivers. Then one set of drivers was created for one PID. Then a different PID was discovered. Again I corresponded with Ralink to create yet another driver package. I have shared these drivers with hundreds of people over the last six months. I'm not surprised that they are now being circulated. You need to make sure that the drivers you download are the ones for your PID. There are two different versions of the adapter and the drivers above work with one version. In order to send the correct one to people I request their PID. I then send the correct version of drivers for their version of the adapter along with instruction on how to set things up. I've been happy to help people with this. If you want to do this right in regards to setting this up for people to download you need to label one for one PID and the other for the other PID. Then tell people how to go about finding their adapters PID.

This is how you find out the PID of your adapter....

With your dongle plugged in to your MAC,

Click on Apple icon in the upper left corner >About This

MAC>More Info... >USB> then on the right side highlight F5D8053 N Wireless USB Adapter >below, at the bottom is Product ID: AND Vendor ID

Although the drivers are from Ralink(the chipset creators) I can not verify that the drivers on their website will work with the adapter. In other words although they have given me drivers I can not say that they have posted them with the changes that make them work with the Belkin wireless N USB adapter. It was not that long ago that someone said that the ones on their site do not work with the Belkin F5D 8053 wireless N USB adapter. That may have changed since then.

Daniel aka totallybonkers

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Just bought this at BestBuy thinking I'll come home and plug it in and I'll be surfing...no dice.

 

I have version 1022. Tried files posted above...tried files on RALINK website.

 

When I go to Network Preferences I don't have a a device...when I go to add one, I don't get a choice to add it (only Firewire, VPN, etc.).

 

Can someone give me some direction on how to get this working?

 

BTW -- in System Preferences > USB it is showing up so I know the computer sees it.

 

Thanks in advance...

 

/mdg

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Thanks, totallybonkers, for doing the work of talking to RaLink. RaLink has always been pretty good about supporting non-Windows OS'es. Now if someone can get them to fix their non-working rt2500 PCI drivers for Leopard!

 

By the way, the link you posted does not work.

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Happy to help.

It took many many emails just to get one response from Ralink. It took many more to get things all sorted out. In the end I received drivers with no instructions what so ever. Then I had to go back and get drivers to work with different PIDs. After a bit of trial and error I figured things out and started sharing the drivers with others and giving them suggestions on how to set things up based on my experience. I've been doing it for six months now. Hundreds of people from the U.S. Canada United Kingdom, etc. One request was completely in Spanish. It's been fun. As far as I know they have not posted these drivers on Ralink as of yet. (I don't know why). I wrote to Belkin six months ago about Mac drivers and they politely brushed me off. To this day I don't think they offer Mac drivers for the Belkin F5D 8053 adapter. I told them I'd figure it out myself back when they politely brushed me off. So here we are. What's kind of funny is that ever since I was able to use my Belkin F5D 8053 Wireless N USB Adapter with my Mac, I've used it to help others get their adapters up and running. So it's come full circle.

Daniel aka totallybonkers

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totallybonkers is 'da man. Sent me files and helped by being a sounding board last night and I got my Belkin card working.

 

Interesting development --

 

I had a Linksys WUSB600N dual band N adapter and while installing the Belkin RALINK kext I noticed a Linksys entry with a PID 112. I changed it to 113 (for the WUSB600N), did the normal permission stuff, rebooted and voila!!

 

I now have 5 GHz N acess to my AEBS :P

 

So --

 

a) I can confirm the Linksys WUSB600N works 100% using the RALINK driver

:wacko: It works with the AEBS

c) It's the fastest wireless connection I've yet to see on a Mac or Hack.

 

Cheers,

 

/mdg.

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Hi MDG,

 

I was hoping you might walk me through how you got it to work with the Linksys device. I'm fairly new to the inner workings of Mac Drivers, but I found the RT2870 kext file, opened that and changed both of the plists to read 113 instead of 112, rebooted, and it still says "No Device" within the wireless tool.

 

Any thoughts on what I'm missing?

 

Thanks,

Nick

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Daniel sent me the driver the next day and after installing all I was getting was `no device present'. After a bit of troubleshooting I tried reinstalling with pacifist this time and now it works like a charm, so if you have any problems use pacifist to install.

 

Thank you Daniel, my hackintosh is finally fully working. :turbin:

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here are some working drivers i managed to get from the fella in this forum http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthrea...ighlight=driver

thought i might share them for the community.

 

10.3

10.4

10.5

 

please read the instructions in the attatchement and if possible give thanks to the person that sorted it out in the forum link i gave above.

 

Hope this works out for you all! works for me on leopard.

 

Using the 10.5 driver and changing the ID from 112 to 113, I got my Linksys WUSB600N working like a champ. I am able to get 270 'N' speeds, which I thought I would never get. The one drawback is that while the driver supports WEP, WPA, WPA2, it does not support WPA-Enterprise only PSK (TKIP/AES). Also, I played around trying to connect on the 5ghz radio and I was unsuccessful. You can go to the adavced tab on the wireless utility and select 2.5&5 and my 5ghz ssids show up but I cannot connect to my WRT600N. More than likely it is a WRT600N setup issue. This router is definitely finicky to say the least. . .

 

By the way, to edit the info.plist file I used the instructions on the below URL:

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...t_Patching_List

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Using the 10.5 driver and changing the ID from 112 to 113, I got my Linksys WUSB600N working like a champ. I am able to get 270 'N' speeds, which I thought I would never get. The one drawback is that while the driver supports WEP, WPA, WPA2, it does not support WPA-Enterprise only PSK (TKIP/AES). Also, I played around trying to connect on the 5ghz radio and I was unsuccessful. You can go to the adavced tab on the wireless utility and select 2.5&5 and my 5ghz ssids show up but I cannot connect to my WRT600N. More than likely it is a WRT600N setup issue. This router is definitely finicky to say the least. . .

 

By the way, to edit the info.plist file I used the instructions on the below URL:

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...t_Patching_List

These installer packages are atrocious, someone edited the Info.plist files (as seen by the modification dates) and they did it using the finder and filled the tree full of .DS_Store files.

 

Another quick examinations and some changes and I made a single installer from all the packages and it installs the correct files based on the OS version, it also looks like the two kexts are the same binary but the ID's in the Info.plist are all that change to support the two different card ID's so I don't understand why there has to be two sets of kexts when it can all be combined into a single kext and both devices work.

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i installed the ralink utility but it wont find my belkin wireless n usb adapter. but the mac recognizes it under usb devices under about my mac. i tried a linksys wireless n adapter as well wusb600n. rebooted with both of these in at once and still couldnt find either in the ralink utility. please help

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...it also looks like the two kexts are the same binary but the ID's in the Info.plist are all that change to support the two different card ID's so I don't understand why there has to be two sets of kexts when it can all be combined into a single kext and both devices work.

Because RaLink doesn't know what they're doing. For their PCI drivers the situation is similar. They didn't change the kext binary from the 10.4 to the 10.5 version. For 10.5 they did change the utility application binary, but since the kext wasn't updated it doesn't work. I like that they provide OSX drivers for their products. I like how they work with other OSes like Linux, too. But whoever's responsible for preparing the downloads for their website seems to be clueless.

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Happy to help.

It took many many emails just to get one response from Ralink. It took many more to get things all sorted out. In the end I received drivers with no instructions what so ever. Then I had to go back and get drivers to work with different PIDs. After a bit of trial and error I figured things out and started sharing the drivers with others and giving them suggestions on how to set things up based on my experience. I've been doing it for six months now. Hundreds of people from the U.S. Canada United Kingdom, etc. One request was completely in Spanish. It's been fun. As far as I know they have not posted these drivers on Ralink as of yet. (I don't know why). I wrote to Belkin six months ago about Mac drivers and they politely brushed me off. To this day I don't think they offer Mac drivers for the Belkin F5D 8053 adapter. I told them I'd figure it out myself back when they politely brushed me off. So here we are. What's kind of funny is that ever since I was able to use my Belkin F5D 8053 Wireless N USB Adapter with my Mac, I've used it to help others get their adapters up and running. So it's come full circle.

Daniel aka totallybonkers

 

hi Daniel,

thanks for your kind sharing and hard work to share knowledge for F5D8053!!! :( is the N1 F5D8051 (newer version?) is better than F5D8053 ?( in terms of coverage?speed?..)

, does it work with my OS 10.4.11 on iBook G4?

 

actually i would like to connect & hare access from my house to my mom's house next door about 100ft+ away (she have a basic D-link DI-524 wireless G broadband router), but using my old D-link DW-G122 usb +Mac 10.4.11 iBook G4 no luck.. what is the solution? upgrade my mom's wireless router to a wireless N model? add a D-link antenna booster? or upgrade my D-link DW-G122 usb to F5D8053 / 8051?

Thank you very very much for youur help!!

 

samuel

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