Wifi-beta dot pup released for testing

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#41 Post by Guest »

Still a few days till it will be back up

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#42 Post by rarsa »

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.

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#43 Post by Guest »

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

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#44 Post by peppyy »

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
Puppy Linux...
It just works!

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Trying to get Wireless on laptop

#45 Post by reallynewby »

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.

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#46 Post by rarsa »

Hey bladehunter, Thank you for the wifi dot pup!

It is working great with my RT2500 chipset.

I took me a long time to try it because I never realized that it was the ndiswrapper and because I barely use this computer with puppy.

Not for sometime.....forever, as with the iso's
Why is that? did your ISP decided to cut your bandwidth? or you just felt that your work wasn't appreciated . I for one appreciate your wifi dotPup.

It is allowing me to experiment with puppy installed to HDD. (I normally boot liveCD on a laptop)

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#47 Post by BlackAdder »

reallynewby, it is not clear if you are connected to the Internet when using Puppy. If you are, can you do the following, please?
Plug in the PCMCIA card.
In Puppy, open a console window using rxvt (Start>Run>Rxvt....)
in the console window, enter :
lspci
This should give you a listing including the PCMCIA card. Mark the listing (click and drag). That will put it onto the clipboard.

Post a reply in this thread and paste your listing into it.

That should enable us to identify the nature of the adapter as a first step.

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#48 Post by tempestuous »

reallynewby,
The wifi-1.0.4-beta-2 package will probably work for you, but this seems overkill when the airo and airo_cs drivers are standard module options in modern 2.4 kernels.
I just checked Barry's kernel config for 2.4.29 - CONFIG_AIRO=m and CONFIG_AIRO_CS=m are there ... but the modules are strangely absent from Puppy. Perhaps these modules were "trimmed" out?

I have the modules in Vector Linux. Email me if you want them - they're only 60KB.

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#49 Post by reallynewby »

BlackAdder,
Sorry that my post was unclear. I am unable to use Puppy for wireless access - the cisco card does not seem to be recognized in Puppy (but it does work on the same laptop while running Ubuntu). I get a high pitch and a low pitch beep when the system boots or when I remove and reinstall the card.

Here is the output when I type lspci:

lspci
0:0.0 10b9:1541 (rev 04)
0:1.0 10b9:5243 (rev 04)
0:7.0 10b9:1533 (rev 0a)
0:9.0 125d:1969 (rev 02)
0:10.0 104c:ac1e
0:15.0 11c1:0441 (rev 01)
0:16.0 10b9:5229 (rev 20)
0:17.0 10b9:7101 (rev 09)
0:20.0 10b9:5237 (rev 03)
1:0.0 10024c42 (rev dc)

Thanks for your help

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#50 Post by BlackAdder »

reallynewby,
Sorry it took a while to get back to you, but my attention was elsewhere. Cannot see the wireless adapter in the listing. In the words of the old Peggy Lee song "Is that all there is?". It is possible that lspci is not seeing your adapter.
Tempestuous has generously offered driver modules. You could take up his offer, but if you want to persist with the wifi beta_2.pup, could you please enter:
cardctl ident
(with the card plugged in, of course) and post the result back on this thread.

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#51 Post by reallynewby »

BlackAdder,
Thanks for getting back to me. Cardctl ident returns the following:

product info: "Cisco Systems", "350 Series Wireless LAN Adaptor?
manfid: 0x015f, 0x000a
function: 6 (network)

I would gladly try the drivers offered by Tempestuous but I would need basic instruction on how to use them.

Thanks for your help.

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#52 Post by tempestuous »

Download this tarball and copy it to your /root directory, which is persistent if you use a pupfile.
Open an xterminal and run these commands -

## uncompress the tarball from the uppermost directory
cd /
tar -xvf /root/aironet.tar
## map the new modules
depmod
## load the driver
modprobe airo_cs
## if no error messages, this should create a network interface, eth0
## can check this by running ifconfig -a
## now set up the wireless network
iwconfig eth0 essid MY_ESSID key 1234567890 mode Managed
## for automatic IP
dhcpcd -t 20 -h puppypc -d eth0
## or for static IP
## modify /etc/resolv.conf to include your nameservers
ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.xx broadcast 192.168.0.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eth0 # or whatever your router's IP is

Happy surfing.
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#53 Post by Guest »

Tempestuous,
Thanks...I'll try this. You say "download these 2 modules" - where do I get the modules?[/quote]

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#54 Post by reallynewby »

Tempestuous-

I downloaded the file and copied it to /root and uncompressed and I can see the 2 resulting files.
When I modprobe airo_cs I get the message "Can't locate module airo_cs"

Clearly I am doing something wrong.

My lack of Linux experience is really showing.

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#55 Post by tempestuous »

You must uncompress from the uppermost directory (/) ... I think you missed the "cd /" step.
And don't forget "depmod".

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