After trying to connect to a couple more routers as I mentioned here, http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=86425, I concluded that in fact the wireless card was working, but in a very inadequate way. The maximum reliable connection range is about 15 ft (~5 m) and less if walls/floors are involved.heywoodj wrote:
Well this wifi problem is turning out to be bigger than I thought at first, as I'm unable to connect to a second wireless router...
I don't think I ever had such poor wireless performance. I've always had acceptable wireless performance on all other Puppies upto now.
Is there anything to boost the performance close to that achieved by running this laptop on Win8?
For the record, the internal card is a Atheros AR9285 using the ath9k driver.