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[tempestuous]

[csshin]

Dpup Exprimo 5.X.9 and Guy Dog 5.0.1 successfully recognized the Atheros AR9485 chip in the WLAN of ASUS Zenbook out of the box.

rcrsn51's compat wireless pets for kernel 2.6.33.x worked for lupu 528. That for kernel 2.6.37.x worked for Three-headed dog.

Thank you all for your help.

I still have the problem of getting the Sentelic touchpad (can move and tap to click but not configurable for other touchpad functions like the synaptic pad) and suspend (cannot enable the keyboard or any USB device as wakeup tool so cannot recover from suspend) to work.
Do you have any direction to point me to?

[playdayz]

tempestuous, I have received a request for usb3 in 5.2.8. I do not even know if this is a simple kernel mode driver, or what is involved. Do you have any recommendations?

I have also been informed that usb3 works in Slacko 5.3 but not in Three-Headed Dog which uses the same kernel. Does that mean there is something else involved other than a kernel driver?

Thanks for any help.

[tempestuous]

Yes, USB3.0 is a standard kernel module. In the kernel configuration it's found at -
Device Drivers > USB support > xHCI HCD (USB 3.0) support

[Lumsdoni]

[tempestuous]

First please confirm that the driver is actually compatible:
i) tell us the brand/model of your wifi device.
ii) give us your device ID's, by running this command -

[Lumsdoni]

[tempestuous]

[Lumsdoni]

Thanks, will install Puppy 5.3 and try it, if not 5.2 and report back.

[Lumsdoni]

Clean install of 5.3.

using the preloaded rt2800pci module I got no wlan0, so unloaded it.
Installed your 3090 module, when loaded it detected new interface wlan0.

Ran Internet Wizard, clicked SCAN, and keep getting error

FAILED to raise interface wlan0
Failed command was ifconfig wlan0 up
Error returned was: ifconfig SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not permitted.

This is what i got before. Wireless is definitely working on Ubuntu, Puppy 4.3 and Win7. Any ideas?

EDIT.

Tried on Puppy 4.2.8

Tried to load 3090sta through Wizard and got a device or kernel is busy error.

I then ran modprobe -r rt2860sta
then modprobe rt3090sta

Now when I try to setup Wireless it stops at te "Test wlan0" stage on the WIzard with the error.

FAILED to raise interface wlan0
Failed command was ifconfig wlan0 up
Error returned was: ifconfig SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not permitted.

[tempestuous]

[Lumsdoni]

[tempestuous]

Here is the dvb-usb-af903x DVB driver,
for TV tuner USB devices based on the Afatech AF9035 chipset.

I have patched the driver to support the Asus U3100 Mini Plus tuner dongle,
as per instructions here -
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Asus_U3100_Mini_plus_DVB-T

Apparently the ASUS U3100mini dongle is incorrectly recognised in Linux by the usbhid driver as an input device.
So this package includes a configuration file which will stop the usbhid driver from claiming the tuner, and allow the new driver to load properly. If anyone is interested, the configuration file is /etc/modprobe.d/dvb-usb-af903x.conf

Thus, it's essential that you reboot after installing this dotpet.

This package includes a firmware file; dvb-usb-af9035-01.fw
but this only affects the InfraRed remote-control function of the device. And it might be necessary to install additional Linux utilities to get InfraRed working, so you would need to experiment here.

UPDATE: I have also attached the w_scan utility.

[Subito Piano]

Tempestuous -- THANK YOU!!! Friends had an Acer with the Atheros wi-fi -- 500MB RAM with Vista on it?!?!?!? This saved an otherwise nice little computer. Puppy worked great but the wireless card was giving me fits! Works perfectly now.

[otropogo]