Wireless USB Adapter F5D6050 help

[sb_linux]

Hello,

I am new to Linux and I need help configuring my wireless USB Adapter.

Background:
- Newly installed Mint
- Able to access via ethernet cable
- Belkin Wireless USB Adapter not working (802.11b; model number: F5D6050)
- Typed: lsusb in console which shows: ID 050d: 0050 Belkin Components F5D60f0 802.11b Wireless Adapter v2000 (Atmel at76c503a)

So now I do not know what to do next. Any help will do. Thanks.

[JeremyB]

See the wireless script link in my signature and post results.

[sb_linux]

Here are the results as requested:

sb@SB-Mint:~$ wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireles ... eless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-info
--2019-01-14 22:17:55-- https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireles ... eless-info
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112, 192.30.253.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2019-01-14 22:17:55 ERROR 404: Not Found.

sb@SB-Mint:~$ cat wireless-info.txt | nc termbin.com 9999
cat: wireless-info.txt: No such file or directory
sb@SB-Mint:~$ wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireles ... eless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-info
--2019-01-14 22:21:26-- https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireles ... eless-info
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.255.113, 192.30.255.112
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.255.113|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ubunt ... eless-info [following]
--2019-01-14 22:21:27-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ubunt ... eless-info
Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 151.101.196.133
Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|151.101.196.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 17452 (17K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘wireless-info’

wireless-info 100%[===================>] 17.04K --.-KB/s in 0.01s

Last-modified header missing -- time-stamps turned off.
2019-01-14 22:21:27 (1.27 MB/s) - ‘wireless-info’ saved [17452/17452]

[sudo] password for sb:

Results saved in "/home/sb/wireless-info.txt".

sb@SB-Mint:~$ cat wireless-info.txt | nc termbin.com 9999
https://termbin.com/e8kv

[JeremyB]

Try

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sudo apt install atmel-firmware

Reboot

[sb_linux]

I was able to go on Network Manager to login to my router but could not connect. I think it's just the adapter issue now because I tested mint on my dummy laptop and I was able to connect via WiFi easily. So two things:

1. Your tutorial helped but I might have to move on unless you have other suggestions.
2. The other problem that I came across was that my Update Manager wanted to update my kernel and suggested that atmel-firmware will be removed which was counter to what you were trying to do.

Thanks for your time helping out.

I did the following as required:

sudo apt install atmel-firmware

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
amd64-microcode intel-microcode iucode-tool
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
linux-firmware linux-generic linux-image-generic linux-kernel-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
atmel-firmware
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 460 kB of archives.
After this operation, 280 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/multiverse amd64 atmel-firmware all 1.3-4 [460 kB]
Fetched 460 kB in 1s (340 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 286694 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing linux-kernel-generic (4.15.0-20) ...
Removing linux-generic (4.15.0.43.45) ...
Removing linux-image-generic (4.15.0.43.45) ...
Removing linux-firmware (1.173.3) ...
Selecting previously unselected package atmel-firmware.
(Reading database ... 284841 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../atmel-firmware_1.3-4_all.deb ...
Unpacking atmel-firmware (1.3-4) ...
Setting up atmel-firmware (1.3-4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...

Thanks again.