Thanks for the pdiag via PM -- for the 2004 Acer 4001LCI? It shows indications of 3 separate wifi or ethernet cards. SNS shows "eth4|Wireless|orinoco_cs|pcmcia". Frisbee shows "interface: eth3". No information was captured for netwiz -- I am updating pdiag to get that info.
The messages log shows the Broadcom device in only 3 messages:
- b44 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 6 (level, low) -> IRQ 6
ssb: Core 0 found: Fast Ethernet (cc 0x806, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 1 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x01, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 2 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:02.0
b44: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100 PCI ethernet driver version 2.0
b44 ssb0:0: eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100 PCI ethernet driver 00:c0:9f:45:13:7d
- udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth2
udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth3
My understanding is that we are trying to get the "b43" card working. It appears to use the b44 driver instead of b43. I think we need to try to get it working without any other wifi card present. I think this is the first time I have seen a b44, so I would like to work with it in isolation.
The bigger issue, though, is the presence of multiple wifi cards.
Back to SNS and the Orinoco card, that must be a leftover that would confuse the connect wizard and its friends -- without the net_setup-20170316-lucid package you installed.
What next? Can you remove the ipw2200 (and any other wifi card) and leave only the Broadcom b44 card in the laptop? Then avoid confounding the experiment by running only the network wizard. Specifically:
- - Boot sulu2 to a fresh pupsave.
- Install the net_setup-20170316-lucid package (available at
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 800#948712)
- Install the pdiag update package, attached.
- Using the "connect" desktop icon, start the network wizard.
- Select the appropriate interface button and Network Wizard.
- Configure the wireless network and click on 'Auto DHCP'.
- Wait until a connection is made or fails.
- If it fails, run pdiag and stop; otherwise reboot, creating a new pupsave file.
- If the connection is not started during he reboot, run pdiag and stop.
- If the connection is up, try disconnecting and then reconnecting, using a right-click on the network tray icon; expect it to take a minute or two to reconnect.
Once we have established which of the cards can be made to work in sulu2, we can work on the issue of multiple wifi cards with SNS, netwiz and frisbee. I have a more complete net_setup package built for tahr and xenial pups and am about to backport the logic to a version for lucid pups. That will be the basis for changes to support multiple cards. I believe that all of the network managers assume there is only one connection to the internet. It will be interesting to see how the other connections are handled by each manager.