Ok. I entered the commands in the order specified in Example V. I did NOT enter an 'ifconfig ra0 up'. It WORKED. Yeah. Thank you very much for all your time and effort. So I'm assuming that the reason it worked the first time for me was that I had entered the command to set the essid twice and not r...

I tried what you suggested and it was a nogo. I installed the package and rebooted. I then entered the following commands: modprobe ieee80211_crypt_ccmp modprobe aes modprobe crc32c iwprov ra0 set NetworkType=Infra At this point, I went to look at /var/adm/messages but it was empty. However entering...

So until this driver matures the only way to get RT2500 WPA support with the 2.6.25.11 kernel is to revert to the older "enhanced legacy" rt2500 driver. Get it here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=221099#221099 I can't check right this minute. Does this mean staying with ...

Same results for both.

I ran dhcpcd two ways:
dhcpcd -t 30 -h puppypc2 -d wlan0
and
dhcpcd -I '' -t 30 -h puppypc2 -d wlan0

I did not reboot between installations of packages.

Frank

Well it seems that a WPA connection is not being properly established, so dhcpcd is not at fault. We're now at the point of trial and error. I suggest that before running the wpa_supplicant command, load any/all encryption-related modules - modrpobe arc4 modprobe ecb modprobe crypto_blkcipher modpr...

The wpa_supplicant / dhcpd (with the -I'' option) combination did not work. Again it assigned the IP address 169.254.2.167. I downed the interface. Contents of /etc/resolv.conf: domain Belkin search Belkin nameserver 192.168.2.1 I copied this from a working Linux box with a wired network interface a...

Nogo. In the Network wizard, I click on "Wireless LAN" -> wlan0 -> Wireless -> Scan. It sees a network with a hidden ESSID and encryption on. I select it. In the Edit Profile frame, I click WPA2, enter a profile name, ESSID and Shared Key. BTW Security says Open and Restricted is grayed ou...

tempestuous,
Thanks.

I downloaded the .pet file. But I don't know what to do with it. Are there instructions on the web?

In /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, I changed AES to CCMP on pairwise and group lines. Still did not work. Only this this there is lots of output. The messages seems to repeat as if wpa_supplicant is in a loop.

BTW, the link and activity lights on the card were on while wpa_supplicant was running.

Frank

The Network Wizard should work. But if the Wizard fails, the commands you should use are the "conventional" wpa_supplicant commands explained in the Wifi HOWTO, not the Ralink-specific instructions. The Ralink-specific instructions only apply to the older "legacy" Ralink wifi dr...

Ok. I booted up off the 4.1Alpha/4.0.5 CD. I noticed that the network interface went from ra0 to wlan0. I entered the command: ifconfig wlan0 up Followed by: iwpriv wlan0 set NetworkType=Infra Got the following: wlan0 no private ioctls. I received the same message for any iwpriv command that I enter...

Forgot to ask:
In the same directory as the iso file is a sfs file. Do I need this file? Are there directions somewhere for how to use it?

Thanks,
Frank

So go ahead and use iwpriv commands for WPA setup, but the best way to avoid this confusion is to upgrade to Puppy 4.1alpha5 which contains completely overhauled Ralink wifi drivers, now fully compatible with "conventional" WPA configuration. The new Ralink driver is "rt2500pci"...

I had this old Gateway laptop that I was going to give to charity. Then I read about PuppyLInux and I changed my mind. I did some reading up. The laptop has a Hawking HWC54G wireless PCMCIA card, Rev R. Research told me that the chipset was rt2500. More research led me to tempestous's writeups. So I...

I had this old Gateway laptop that I was going to give to charity. Then I read about PuppyLInux and I changed my mind. I did some reading up. The laptop has a Hawking HWC54G wireless PCMCIA card, Rev R. Research told me that the chipset was rt2500. More research led me to tempestous's writeups. So I...