Belkin N600 not working after upgrade to mint 17

[Neuromancemeister]

Hello,

I did a clean installation to upgrade to mint 17 and my wireless USB does not work anymore. It did work previously with 16 and still does work with windows.
Belkin N600
lsusb
050d:110a Belkin Components
Mint Cinnamon and Mate x64 (I installed Mate first)

I tried uninstalling and reinstaling ndiswrapper from the package manager and the terminal several times. One of the first errors was modprobe module missing message but that was corrected after installing ndiswrapper-dkms.
sudo modprobe -f -v ndiswrapper does not provide any message
ndiswrapper -l
netrtwlanu : driver installed
device (050D:110A) present
iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.
I tried all the drivers in the CD, from the Belkin page and from several threads, none of them work.
I tired the -a option too.
I messed up with something with those attempts, the ndiswrapper.conf file is now missing from modprobe.d

Any suggestion?

[JeremyB]

I would try Chili555's idea from here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... st12688576
And things on the github site have been updated

[Neuromancemeister]

I think this is meant for linux drivers but I have not been able to find one for the Belkin F9L1101v1 (that's the actual model). In the page linked in the tread it says is not supported, so I think it has to be used with ndiswrapper.

[JeremyB]

I think it would work as part of the code includes this

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 {USB_DEVICE(0x050D, 0x110A)}, /* Belkin - Edimax 

and that is the same ID as your device but there are a couple posts that say it won't compile on some Ubuntu kernels

[Neuromancemeister]

I guess I am one of the unlucky ones, it gives me 2 fatal errors while compiling...

[Neuromancemeister]

Additional info, if I try sudo modprobe -f ndiswrapper
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'ndiswrapper': Exec format error
Also,
dmesg | grep ndis
[ 2769.528788] ndiswrapper version 1.59 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
[ 2769.724217] ndiswrapper: driver bcmn43xx64 (,08/26/2009, 5.10.79.30) loaded
which is NOT the driver I am trying to load. It seems that the module is simply not being loaded.
I tried already do a complete uninstall and reinstall of ndiswrapper

[Neuromancemeister]

I blacklisted the unwanted driver and tried again with all drivers I could find in the installation disks and on the internet... nothing still.

Anybody has any suggestion?