How to use USB wireless adapter in 4.3?

[danxaz]

I'm running puppy 4.3 from a live cd. It works great but when I plug in my Wireless USB Adapter nothing happens. I have the driver cd that came with the adapter and it has linux drivers on it but I don't really know what to do with them. Can someone help please. BTW, I copied the cd to a flash drive and plugged it into my computer since my cd drive is being used by the live cd. The flash drive shows up and I can access all the folders but don't know where to go from there. Thanks.

Also, I have Windows XP on this computer and it's super slow. Puppy is much faster.

[Semme]

Hi Danxaz, welcome! Pup phaster than XP? Easily!

USB plugged.. open a terminal'n enter: dmesg | grep -i network and let's see what you've got there..

[muggins]

since my cd drive is being used by the live cd

If you had 256M RAM the CD drive should be available.

but when I plug in my Wireless USB Adapter nothing happens

You give no info on the ID of the device. If you run Menu>System>HardInfo>USB, what is the adapter's vendorID & productID?

[danxaz]

Hi Danxaz, welcome! Pup phaster than XP? Easily!

USB plugged.. open a terminal'n enter: dmesg | grep -i network and let's see what you've got there..

Doing that right now. Forgot to say, the lights on the adapter don;t blink at all as they do on my Windows machine. It's like its totally dead.

[danxaz]

since my cd drive is being used by the live cd

If you had 256M RAM the CD drive should be available.


I only have 128mb. Its an old machine. IBM Thinkpad i series.

[danxaz]

Vendor ID:

0xbda

Product ID:

0x8176

[danxaz]

I got nothing when I entered "dmesg | grep -i network" in terminal

[danxaz]

Any suggestions?

[pemasu]

rtl8188 could be the direction to go.

[danxaz]

rtl8188 could be the direction to go.

Sorry. I'm a total newbie. I don't really know what you mean. If possible can you give detailed instruction. Thanks soo much!

P.S. I really, really want to be a Linux guy. i just need some direction.

[muggins]

Well, as pointed out by Pemasu, it seems you need the 8192cu driver, which also covers rtl8188cu. Unfortunately I couldn't get the driver to compile, (on p431).

Is there any reason why you couldn't try a newer pupversion? e.g. if you tried any of the lucid series Tempestuous has the driver for lucid here:

8192cu-k2.6.33.2.pet

Also, having 128M RAM, have you created a swap file, or swap partition?

[danxaz]

Ok will try that. Couldn't get Slako to work, though so we'll see. Thanks!

[danxaz]

If t works, how to I install the driver and make it work? Detailed, step-by-step instruction would be great!

[pemasu]

I have compiled 8192cu about week ago for dpup exprimo with 2.6.39.4 kernel...it was effort for one user.
It wont hurt if I post the pet here.
To install these pet packaged drivers. Install the pet and the driver might be immediately loaded. Due to pinstall.sh script inside driver pet. But rebooting is sometimes needed.

My pet does not work with Lucid Puppies. They have different, older kernel.

[danxaz]

Loaded PET. It said it was loaded successfully. Still nothing happening with usb adapter (no lights blinking or anyting) Still dead. This is gettig frustrating. Can't go the Linux route if I can;t even connect to Internet. It's goota be easier than this, or whats the point?

[cthisbear]

Try this instead....from Iguleder. ..Kinda Lucid Puppy 006

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57371

I tried this on my little Acer netbook when kinda lucid was released.

Wireless worked perfectlt with encyption.

Pwireless 2
Network Wizard >> Dougal
Simple Network
Network Wizard Classic >> Barry

My review.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67859

And use my latest April 2011 technique.if it won't work with Pwireless2.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=66936

And quite honestly why not try Wary?

And did you post your specs?????

Chris.


Chris.

[muggins]

Your frustration is understandable but it's important, in fault-finding, to let us know exactly what you've done. You've installed an 8192cu pet, but don't say whether it was the one by Pemasu for Exprimo, or the one compiled by Tempestuous, for Lucid, which uses a completely different kernel.

After install, did you reboot?

I'm still not sure what you're actual device is...could you perhaps give a link to the product's page?

Have you run Menu>Setup>Internet Connect Wizard? (I'm guessing you would tryInternet by wired or wireless LAN)

[tempestuous]

Tempestuous has the driver for lucid here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 469#462469

You do understand that this driver is compatible only with Puppy Lucid versions 5.1 - 5.2.8 ?

Vendor ID: 0xbda
Product ID: 0x8176

The (Realtek) 8192cu driver is definitely compatible with that device ID.

Still nothing happening with usb adapter

By "nothing" you mean that no wifi interface is listed in the Network Wizard?

[danxaz]

Ok here are some details:

My system is an Old IBM Thinkpad:

Intel Celeron 550 Mghz
128 Mb Ram
30G Hard Rive
Currently running Windows XP, but very slowly. The wirelss USB Adapter works fine on XP.

The USB Adapter is a mini usb type:

Realtek RTL8188CU 802.11n
It came with a cd that has drivers for Windows, Mac, and Linux

There is a lot of information about Linux on the disk as well as a power point slide show that has instructions but it has a lot of information about teminal prompts and "building" etc. ??

There are files that end in .tar that I think are the drivers but I don't know what to do with them.

[tempestuous]

Your information still doesn't tell us the Puppy version with which you attempted to install the 8192cu driver.

There are files that end in .tar that I think are the drivers but I don't know what to do with them.

That's the source code, which I have already compiled and packaged as a dotpet for Lucid 5.1 - 5.2.8,
and pemasu has already compiled and packaged for dpup exprimo.