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rimatheou · Joined: 09 Dec 2017 Posts: 71 Location: Germany

This is what I see in the client logbook (router menu):

rimatheou · Joined: 09 Dec 2017 Posts: 71 Location: Germany

@ mikeslr
Carolina with xfce needs

rimatheou · Joined: 09 Dec 2017 Posts: 71 Location: Germany

Unicorn 6.0

Booting from USB:
- both the mouse and the trackpoint stick are not working, either after mouse/keyboard setup.
- SNS detects no interface, neither eth0 nor wlan0.

HD install: I spare myself

slavvo67 · Joined: 12 Oct 2012 Posts: 1625 Location: The other Mr. 305

I also have ongoing mouse problems (non-wireless). For me, it's in RU Xerus (quirky) and usually happens when I am push the computer's resources ....

such as when I'm using WoofQ to build.....

Sometimes, plugging into a new port works, sometimes it doesn't. I use a 4 port USB extension, which may be part of the issue. Still, I think there's something deeper going on here; Woof code or maybe a generic driver that's older than the hills.

I'm going to try to dig into this deeper in RU Xerus. We'll see...

greengeek · Posted: Sat 13 Jan 2018, 15:01 Post subject:

Hi Rimatheou, were you relatively happy with the mouse performance of the last Lupu you tried?

If I read your results correctly Lupu seemed ok except not good at detecting wireless networks. I think it would be good to look at the wifi problems more closely using Lupu.

Bigpup suggested some Network Wizard troubleshooting steps here and that would be one of the possible ways for us to collect information.

There are also other tools that will let us work out what puppy sees when it looks for your wifi. Is it worth focussing on Lupu now or do you still want recommendations for other puppies to try? (the larger swap partition should open up the opportunity to try some other puppies if you want).

rimatheou · Joined: 09 Dec 2017 Posts: 71 Location: Germany

Hi Greengeek, I decided to use lupu 528. Mouse perfomance is good. Now I go through the steps Bigpup wrote. After step 3 (Select Wireless in the Configure wireless network box) I get this message:

greengeek · Posted: Thu 18 Jan 2018, 13:43 Post subject:

I wonder if the module being loaded by Lupu is faulty.

Your post here http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=979251#979251 shows that Slacko 5.6 identified your wlan hardware as a usb device with id of 04f1:3009 which is made by the Victor Company of Japan, Ltd and is known as a MP-XP7250 WLAN Adapter. (also see P2 of the pdf I link below)

Your post above says that the driver module (prism2_usb) being loaded for that adapter does not have WPA capability.

This pdf: http://www.iwaniwanowitsch.net/Home/Information/Linux/Ubuntu/Howto/WLAN/prism2%20usb.pdf has more info and says the same thing - that the prism2_usb driver lacks WPA support. This implies that your wifi network is wpa and that is why it is not beeing seen.

That pdf suggests that there may be other ways to blacklist prism2_usb and use a different driver module. I have never used blacklisting so i can't help you achieve that. The next question is what alternative module might support WPA on that hardware?

I do have a suggestion - could you boot Slacko again and enter the command:

lsmod

so that we can confirm what module Slacko was loading to that card.

(maybe post the Lupu output of lsmod also?)

rimatheou · Joined: 09 Dec 2017 Posts: 71 Location: Germany

lsmod from Slacko5.6

rimatheou · Joined: 09 Dec 2017 Posts: 71 Location: Germany

lsmod from lupu528

greengeek · Posted: Sun 21 Jan 2018, 14:26 Post subject:

Thanks - I was hoping to be able to spot which driver module Slacko is using for your wifi but it is not jumping out at me. Could you post the output of the following command when running Slacko?

readlink /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/driver

bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13941 Location: S.C. USA

rimatheou · Joined: 09 Dec 2017 Posts: 71 Location: Germany

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 23 Jan 2018, 12:12 Post subject:

@rimatheou: When you originally did the hard drive install, did you also copy the zdrv.sfs file? Newer Puppies have it - older ones don't.

It contains driver files that may be needed to make your mouse work.

rimatheou · Joined: 09 Dec 2017 Posts: 71 Location: Germany

@ rcrsn51
When booting slacko6.3.2 from USB, X failed to start after configuration of xorgwizard.
Choosing vesa, the system hangs up,
choosing modesetting and Nothing - Let Xorg guess it:

greengeek · Posted: Wed 31 Jan 2018, 14:10 Post subject:

Hi Rimatheou, all of the information I can find states that your inbuilt wifi adapter does not have a Linux driver that is capable of supporting WPA.

That wifi interface has a windows driver that supports WPA - but not a suitable Linux driver. (the non-usb versions of that adapter do have Linux drivers that seem to support WPA to some extent but this does not help you).

I think your choices are as follows:
- Change your routers security protocol to WEP or open (bad idea)
- Fit a new wifi adapter (either usb or pcmcia) that supports WPA
- Try loading the windows driver to your current inbuilt adapter. I think this is what people call "ndiswrapper" method. Sorry I do not know how to do this. Hopefully someone else will have some idea if/how it is possible for you.