wireless / wifi cards confirmed to work in puppy

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r4dic4l
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Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] & Dell B120

#101 Post by r4dic4l »

Dell B120 (rescue)
Slacko Puppy 5.6.0 (Full-install)
Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
PCMCIA
Native b43 driver
Wireless: G
WPA2
Frisbee

After several days of trying to get this damaged rescue laptop to take and boot an install of anything; this OS has found it’s home. It will also become my new "work" laptop as it is high time I delve deeper into open-source instead of hacking, cracking, blatant mis-use and general disregard of respect for copy-righted material(s).

This Frisbee network manager is the BOMB.

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#102 Post by boof »

rddic4l:
you've encouraged me-I've bought a mini PCI-e version of your device, hoping to get top encryption. 2-4 weeks from China via ebay. Can't wait to try it out..

where there's a will, there's a lawyer.

B.O.M.B: Best Ordinary Mixed Black????? [the Goon show:xxxxxx; Eccles and Bluebottle driving a steam train, Eccles pick up piece of coal with BOMB written on it. [reads aloud] "B.O.M.B. [struggles to pronounce it] Says "Strong coal!" Bluebottle says :"Best......., that's what that is, throw it into the fire, Eccles"]

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#103 Post by r4dic4l »

Using Linux (other than troubleshooting hardware issues) as a primary OS was always put off for network cofig issues: Got network? Got answers!
I actually look forward to opening this pet up to take it for walks. Or is it the other way around...? :?
I needed a replacement pet anyway as I took Beast (my rotty) ice-fishing last month. Instead of cutting holes; I stand back and lob grenades to take the strain off my back.
Well, Beast decided to "fetch" the first attempt and jumps back in my new Escalade. BOMB went BOOM!
Moral of the story?
Stay away from guys name "Eccles" and "Bluebottle".
Don't own a dumb pet: Stay with Puppy. lol
Good luck with the networking.

See ya round....

Edit:
Hope you get your toy sooner than later. I order pieces and parts from China and the Chinese New Year really stalls their system for a bit.

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WIFI - 3Com 3CRWE154G72 PCMIA card

#104 Post by newtusmaximus »

Works with Puppy 5.2.8 & 5.7.1

LukeM
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Dell Latitude D600 Intel 2100 wireless

#105 Post by LukeM »

I got one of these in an auction, and loaded Slacko PuPPy 5.7.
The wireless would not work out of the box.
Things to check:
Go into the BIOS (F2 on startup) and make sure the wireless is turned on. It didn't matter if the setting was F2 or Application.
Boot the machine, and use any of the wireless network setup tools (all 3 worked eventually)
They did see the available wireless networks around my neighborhood, but would not connect to mine. All the others were protected/unavailable.

So, seeing the interface was up with the ifconfig eth1 command, but without a DHCP provided IP address, I looked elsewhere.

It dawned on me that this is 10 year old hardware, and may only work at 11Mb/second (802.11b). I had set my wireless router to only connect with 802.11g (54Mb/second). I changed the router to Mixed, and it connected like a charm. DHCP worked fine as well.

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#106 Post by cthisbear »

LukeM:

Nice helpful report mate.

Cheers....Chris.

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#107 Post by rokytnji »

Wireless N pcmcia sold out of China that I bought

It uses a

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Card-2: Ralink RT2800 802.11n PCI driver: rt2800pci
chip.

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# iwconfig wlan1 | grep -i --color quality
          Link Quality=52/70  Signal level=-58 dBm 
iwconfig wlan1 | grep -i --color signal
          Link Quality=52/70  Signal level=-58 dBm  

I used to run a Belkin F5D 7010 .ver 6 PCMCIA Wireless G card in here (IBM T23 Laptop).

Price is right for New wireless N pcmcia and they ship worldwide. I already have mine. I am not affiliated and I am not spamming this. Just posting info and think it is a good deal for Wireless N in Puppy on old gear.

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#108 Post by stray_dog »

I picked up a used HP Elitebook that has one of these Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300's in it. I've been using Slack0 5.6 & 5.7 & it works pretty well. Uses the iwlwifi driver. Sometimes it's slow to connect to an unencrypted signal when using Frisbee, but after a connection is made, seems alright.

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#109 Post by Flash »

NetGear N900 (WNDA4100) USB wireless dongle works in all Puppies with late kernels. Fatdog64-700a1; Slacko64-5.9.1; Tahr-5.8.3 all found the N900 out of the box. Others may work as well, I just didn't get around to trying them.

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#110 Post by don570 »

Netgear Wn 111 USB wifi dongle works in tahr and other puppies
It has been unstable in precise 5.7.1

Netgear Wn 111 USB wifi

Edit: It's stable in precise puppy. I had a damaged install which was giving me
a bad result.

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#111 Post by stray_dog »

Ubiquiti SWX-SRX and SR71 both worked for me nicely on slacko 6.

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#112 Post by RetroTechGuy »

Got this o.n s.a.l.e (even cheaper than listed)

EDIMAX EW-7811Un N150 USB 2.0 Wireless nano Adapter
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6833315091

Works in Win7 (using provided driver from CD -- not automagic)

Works under Puppy 5.28 (using the XP driver from CD, and windows wrapper).

(my internal card failed and was replaced with this -- in addition to low external profile, the heat coming from my Win7 laptop dropped substantially -- apparently the internal card was shedding lots of heat -- didn't check for shorts in it yet...)
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#113 Post by rcrsn51 »

RetroTechGuy wrote:EDIMAX EW-7811Un
That device uses the rtl8192cu driver and should work in any k3.x Puppy without needing ndiswrapper.

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#114 Post by RetroTechGuy »

rcrsn51 wrote:
RetroTechGuy wrote:EDIMAX EW-7811Un
That device uses the rtl8192cu driver and should work in any k3.x Puppy without needing ndiswrapper.
Thanks Rcrsn.

I couldn't get the device to show up at all, until I used the XP drivers (running 5.28.005 IIRC rev correctly).
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Wifi with EDIMAX EW-7811Un and Slacko

#115 Post by kforce »

EDIMAX EW-7811Un
Works out of the box with Slacko 5.7.
Have it working on 2 computers and
have had no issues with connecting or
throughput. Purchased from NewEgg

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#116 Post by spongedaddy »

Excellent -- thanks for this.

I just downloaded the latest Slacko 5.7 and it doesn't see my TRENDnet usb. Will probably be ordering one of the edimax's today.

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#117 Post by rcrsn51 »

spongedaddy wrote:I just downloaded the latest Slacko 5.7 and it doesn't see my TRENDnet usb.
Please identify the full model name of your adapter. There is probably a driver for it.

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Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] OK (tahrpup 6.0 on HP G60)

#118 Post by hapless_user »

Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] i

OK ! using tahrpup 6.0 and lxtahr on HP G60 laptop

Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] [8086:0084]
• Kernel Driver: iwlwifi
• Memory Used: 68.49 KB
• Path: /lib/modules/3.14.20/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko
• Driver Version: in-tree:
• Description: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux

Puppy asked me to confirm as it is not on the list as being wpa compliant so being a good "master" I am here to say it works fine on my wpa-tkip network
(I haven't tried it with a hidden network yet)

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#119 Post by spongedaddy »

rcrsn51 wrote:
spongedaddy wrote:I just downloaded the latest Slacko 5.7 and it doesn't see my TRENDnet usb.
Please identify the full model name of your adapter. There is probably a driver for it.
It's a TRENDnet TEW624UB (wireless N, if that makes a difference). I went to their website and it looks like they just have drivers for Win and Mac.

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#120 Post by rcrsn51 »

There are several versions of your TRENDnet TEW624UB, based on different chipsets. But they should all be detected by Slacko 5.7. So I suspect that the problem is with firmware, which often occurs in Slacko.

Plug in the adapter and run the command: lsusb.

Identify the vendor:product ID codes. They may be 0bda:8174 or 20f4:624d.

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