Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

keenerd · Guest

Peppyy, You say you've had trouble with your 600e? I haven't had too much trouble, and I've been keeping notes of my installation. (I will have to do it all over again at some point.) Sound works, but the audio crackles during USB transfers. Video works, most of the time.

Bladehunter, I had a thought about option 2 upgrading. Wouldn't we have to step the version number of Puppy back a notch? Barry had us do that once, to upgrade from 1.0.2 beta (?) to 1.0.2. The existing install was renamed 1.0.1, or somehing like that.

peppyy · Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 429 Location: VT USA

Guest · Guest

Are you trying to get your IP via dhcp ?

peppyy · Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 429 Location: VT USA

Yes, well sort of. Here is what I have.

My gateway automatacally hands out network addresses as machines come and go so I need to use auto dhcp. My essid is "Home" and the default channel is "8", not worring about encription fot the moment.

Lets say I walk next door with my laptop and want to connect to that wireless network. The essid is "linksys" and the default channel is "5".

Not only do I need to change my wireless config but I also need to dhcp again for a new address. If I have a set address, the router will ignore the connection since it is set to hand the addresses out.

Is there an easy way to say, probe for the essid and channel and then ask for an address with dhcpcd wlan0 ? I may be way off base here but this is what my orinoco seems to do when it is eth0 and I run iwconfig. Although I still have to ask for an address, (DHCP) it finds network id's and channels automatically.

keenerd · Guest

This is self promotional, but....

Have you tried complimenting Wifi-Beta with Wireless Access Gadget? If you card supports scanning, it will scan for networks and give each one its own button. Click to connect to anything that isn't password protected.

http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?p=10027#10027

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

http://www.edgarbrits.net/puppy/dotpups/wifi-beta.pup

Gives me http authentication dialog.

Guest · Guest

Yep it will for the time being......I got a message the other day saying that I'd reached my limit of 20GB for the month....should be up again ok in the next day or so

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

Noobler · Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 1

Any other links to get the wifi-beta file, it's still asking for credetials. I am a total linux newbie and I am trying to get my internal wireless card in my dell 700m (intel pro 2200). I am using puppy 1.0.5 and I ran the hardware prob and it looks like it found it, but doesn't have the driver for it. Thanks in advance. Any help would be appreciated.

Guest · Guest

Still a few days till it will be back up

rarsa · Posted: Tue 13 Sep 2005, 00:10 Post subject:

Hey bladehunter, my tough luck. I was ready to start testing with your wifi dotpup but apparently it's going to be off the air for some time.

I've had no problems on my laptop with the orinoco drivers that come with puppy, but the desktop has an RT2500 chipset. I had not had the need to use puppy on that other computer until now that I am braving the dangerous waters of slapt-get for puppy (Currently only Initial investigation).

Having Wifi on that computer will help me with that.

khrevolucionist has offered to host packages that don't fit in the forum. Have you asked him to host it meanwhile?

just an idea.

Guest · Guest

Not for sometime.....forever, as with the iso's

peppyy · Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 429 Location: VT USA

Rarsa, If you want to pm me with an addy I can e-mail it to you. I have it hosted on my webspace but I too have a bandwidth issue.I have the wifi-1.0.4-beta-2

reallynewby · Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 18

I have Puppy installed on a Comapq Presario 1270 Laptop using Live CD version 1.04 using Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card. All works well except wireless. I have Ubuntu installed as the regular OS and wireless works ok.
I am new to Linux and have searched through the forum and WIKI looking for advice to help but am stuck. I am not sure how to determine next steps to get wireless running.

Any help would be appreciated.