I've tried getting my Belkin N Wireless adapter to work on Ubuntu many times with no luck at all. Each time I seem to arrive at a dead end.

After some thorough searching of UbuntuForums and WifiDocs I've gathered some information and narrowed the problem down to an issue with the rtl819xU driver.

Here's some info that may help:

$ sudo lshw -C network *-network DISABLED description: Wireless interface physical id: 1 bus info: usb@1:2 logical name: wlan0 serial: 00:22:75:38:52:ac capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl819xU multicast=yes wireless=802.11b/g/n

$ sudo lsmod Module Size Used by vesafb 13449 1 snd_ice1724 106559 2 snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx 13163 1 snd_ice1724 snd_ac97_codec 105614 1 snd_ice1724 ac97_bus 12642 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_ak4xxx_adda 18436 2 snd_ice1724,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx snd_ak4114 14326 1 snd_ice1724 snd_pt2258 12986 1 snd_ice1724 snd_i2c 13831 2 snd_ice1724,snd_pt2258 snd_ak4113 14307 1 snd_ice1724 snd_pcm 80244 4 snd_ice1724,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ak4114,snd_ak4113 fglrx 2434640 121 snd_seq_midi 13132 0 snd_rawmidi 25269 2 snd_ice1724,snd_seq_midi binfmt_misc 13213 1 snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi snd_seq 51291 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event ppdev 12849 0 snd_timer 28659 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 14110 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq dcdbas 14054 0 r8192u_usb 297246 0 snd 55295 16 snd_ice1724,snd_ac97_codec,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_ak4114,snd_pt2258,snd_i2c,snd_ak4113,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device soundcore 12600 1 snd parport_pc 32111 1 snd_page_alloc 14073 1 snd_pcm shpchp 32345 0 lp 13349 0 parport 36746 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp usbhid 41704 0 hid 77084 1 usbhid e100 40108 0 floppy 60032 0

$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 802.11b/g/n Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

I'd like to know if 1) Is the driver is properly installed and recognized by Ubuntu? 2) What can I do to load the drivers properly and make use of the adapter?

Thanks!