It is not looking good for ndiswrapper. Before you give up you could check for error messages by using dmesg from an rxvt window. Possibly the firmware is not getting uploaded to the adapter, in which case it will probably be a no go. Not sure that I could comment about your suggestion of connecting...

The adapter you have is quite different internally (the chipset) to that mentioned in the previous post. There is a Linux driver available, but that driver is not included in any Puppy release AFAIK. You can find some information about the driver here: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Orinoco_USB Lookin...

You have not said which 2Wire USB adapter you have, so I am guessing that it is the one pictured in this Ubuntu thread: http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/02/howto-setup-2wire-80211g-wireless-usb.html According to that thread you just need the WlanUIG.inf and WlanUIG.sys files, although I looked i...

When using ndiswrapper you need not just the .inf file, but also any associated .sys files, and they must be in the same directory as the .inf file when installing to ndiswrapper. That may be the cause of your "invalid driver" messages.

This post might help. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=21865
Don't know if the adapter is the same, though. There was also someone over on Linuxquestions trying to get a 2Wire USB adapter working with WPA.

Have tested several wireless adapters all using WEP encryption: Atmel-based USB device using the at76_usb module, automatically loaded driver, defined via "Connect" and worked fine. Gigabyte PCI adapter based on RT2500 chip using the rt2500 module, automatically loaded driver, defined via ...

Sobering to think that there may be more Puppy users in Vietnam already than in the rest of the world. The extra 100,000 might require Barry to change his travel plans from India to Vietnam. @Hacao. There was a guy from the US - Vietnam Program interested in buying 10,000 cheap laptops for poor rura...

Barry,
I presume you have read this page. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OFW_FAQ
I read it to say that boot from USB should work if you have /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd.img on the USB device. Might initrd.gz need to be changed perhaps?

HTH

This is one of two posts on the OLPC News Forum explaining how to install Ubuntu on an XO-1. http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1435.0 Looks as though it should be perfectly possible to get Puppy to run without needing as much resource as required for Ubuntu. :wink: But neither Puppy nor Ubun...

Ivan Kristic of the OLPC team does not seem to think that the MS people he is working with are retards, and it is worth reading his opinion on what is happening with OLPC and MS. His blog entry is here: http://radian.org/notebook/paradox-of-choice

In case others are interested... Created a VMWare virtual machine for Alpha 4 and ran it with XP as a host. Runs at close to native speed as far as I can tell. Only XVESA would work with the virtual display adapter. Configured an ext3 virtual disk and tried a frugal install to it without success. Bu...

Testing 395 on an IBM Thinkpad T61 with iwl4965 wireless. Seems to require mac80211 before it will associate with an AP. Then get many reports of: RX non-WEP frame, but expected encryption This latter has also been reported in Ubuntu forums, but solution seems elusive. Then tried D-Link DWL-650+ wit...

Try this with ndiswrapper. The archive contains the .inf file and associated .sys file.
Have you checked whether the Linux driver BCM43XX works with that card? The driver is in Puppy 2.15CE, and probably in most other recent Puppies.

This item from the ndiswrapper list of cards might help: Card: TP-LINK TL-WN620G, 108 Mbps * Chipset: Atheros * USBID: 0CF3:0002 * Driver: tl-wn620g.{sys,inf} from the cd or download the BETA drivers from http://www.tp-link.com.cn/ * Other: WPA-PSK works, with wpa_supplicant 0.5.3, 0.5.4 * Other: Li...

There look to be several US Robotics PCMCIA 802.11g cards. Can you tell us which model you have? Alternatively (or as well) could you post the result of an lspci command with the card plugged in? Presumably the network wizard does not show a wireless interface, implying that Puppy has not recognized...

If you send one to Barry, that would leave you with a couple to experiment with. And you might like to try this until the arrival of a Puppy version that uses all the capability of the XO. While waiting for the servers to finish churning last night, I put together an UNOFFICIAL Debian "etch&quo...

This is from a post on the OLPC developers list by Mitch Bradley, the Open Firmware developer. He was responding to a concern that the flash drive would "wear out" in a short time. It refers specifically to the flash memory in the OLPC XO, but the comments are worth reading in the more gen...

FBReader is an Ebook reader that runs on a number of Linux platforms (and Windows XP for the masochists). It can display from files in several formats, e.g. Text, HTML, .chm, Plucker, Mobipocket and the FictionBook format (.fb2). Looks as though it could be very useful for children (and others) runn...

This text is excerpted from an OLPC forum. Current Abiword release in the wild is 2.5. AbiWord 2.6 will be something for Puppy users also to look forward to...or not, depending on your views about Google docs. Hi Everyone, I'm Martin Sevior, one of the core abiword (and OLPC-Write) developers. The W...

For those following the progress of the Classmate, today's post on OLPC News might be interesting. http://www.olpcnews.com/ Looks like Intel are test marketing in the U.S. primary school arena. Interesting to note that these machines come with a 40GB hard drive and are rumoured to be sold at the $US...