I recently picked up a copy of Ubuntu because I wanted to try new things and well... quite frankly... Microsoft Must Fall... Anyway, I fooled around with it for about 2 days trying to figure out how to get my Wireless online... tried the drivers and ndiswrapper... I couldnt get that to work... so I did a lil research on the net, and found FREESPIRE... and guess what... my card shows up, its showing my wireless signal from the router... so I clicked CONNECT and... it tries to connect for about 45 seconds and then goes back to the red and white x. So, heres the info..

Belkin Wireless G Network Card. F5D7000

lspci = 00:07.0 Network Controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus/Mini-PCI (Rev 01)
(I know the RT2500 isnt the same as the F5D700, but from what I can tell from reading for the last 6 days, they are the same drivers and all thus FreeSpire picks them up as the same card.)

Signal Shows Up As:
IP: 192.168.1.104
Network: Linksys
Trusted: No
Bandwidth: Unknown
Signal Strength: 62
Encrypted: No
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And the typical Linksys wireless router. I currently have 4 other PC's running on this router (3xp and 1vista) and they arent having any network issues.

Anyway. Ive got it setup to automatically detect the IP. I have no WEP key enabled. So if I am doing something wrong, would some one please tell me..

Ok, so, you are using freespire?

Check their wiki page on wireless networking here, and if it still doesn't work, you can search their forums/knowledge base here, or just ask a question on their forums here.

I went through all that for about 4 days, and never got a reply on their forums. I did however resolve the issue and posted it on their forums. Turns out freespires network manager had set up its own default gateway even after I had set it up manually (it kept adding a 1 to the end of the gateway address, and the broadcast IP, thus, blocking the routers settings)

Anyway, thank you for atleast replying, lol.