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The cdc-acm driver in Puppy 5.1.x recognises 43 different Nokia phone device ID's.
Using the 2.6.39 kernel source as a reference, I have just patched this driver to recognise an additional 14 Nokia telephone models. This updated driver should now be suitable for the two specific requests on the forum to date:
Nokia N8 - forum member Dave_G
Nokia C5 - forum member rameshiyer

Plug in your phone after you have installed this dotpet, and the new cdc-acm driver should load automatically.

EDIT:
Your phone must be set to the correct mode. A forum user with recent model Nokia C5 reported that the mode-options in the phone's menu are:
1. PC Suite
2. Mass Storage
3. Image Transfer
4. Media Transfer
5. PC to Web
The PC to Web setting failed, but the PC Suite setting was successful.

Dear Sir

Thank you very much. I will try with your pet and let you know the status. Anyway thank you very much for extending your knowledge with me.

Drivers for ATI RADEON 9200 pro

Hammerknight wrote:Drivers for ATI RADEON 9200 pro

Well I just compiled the AMD/ATI Catalyst 11.10 graphics driver ... but I see it's not necessary -
playdayz already provided version 10.10 here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 993#467993
I'm talking about Puppy Lucid 5.1 - 5.2.8, of course.

I just compiled the AMD/ATI Catalyst 11.10 graphics driver but I see it's not necessary -
playdayz already provided version 10.10 here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 993#467993
I'm talking about Puppy Lucid 5.1 - 5.2.8, of course.

I'm glad you did. I have been meaning to do it myself. It is not necessary for the 9200 but it should cover any brand new ATI cards. Could you provide a link and I will post it. Thanks.

In Lucid, users can also get the ati and nvidia proprietary drivers as well as the open source glx driver (Xorg_High) in Quickpet -> Drivers.

I run Puppy 5.2.8, both standard edition and also those with newer kernels (up to 3.1.0) found on this forum, all cannot detect the wireless interface in an ASUS Zenbook UX31E. I tried icepuppy, three-headed dogs and snow puppy but still no luck.

The wireless chipset used is Atheros AR9485. I tried the new ath9k drivers and firmware pet in this thread but still the interface is not detected.

I tried to use ndiswrapper on the WIN7 driver that comes with the machine but the response is something like: it is not a correct file.

The same is true for the USB wired net interface with chipset AXI...(sorry I forgot the exact name).

Are these chipsets too new to be supported yet?

I attempted to download the up to date compat wireless package hoping to compile a new driver. But it responds that the kernel has something not set so that it cannot get through and just leave the original drivers intact.

I am desperate with this new machine because there is no network interface and problem with wakeup from suspend (that will be a new thread) .

@csshin:While you are waiting for tempestuous, you should determine the vendor/product ID codes for this device. Type The codes are in square brackets, like [168c:002e].

rcrsn51 wrote:While you are waiting for tempestuous, you should determine the vendor/product ID codes for this device. Type

Code: Select all

lspci -nn

The codes are in square brackets, like [168c:002e].

I try to type the result here:

00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0104] (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0030]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:0116] (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point HECI Controller #1 [8086:1c3a] (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1c20] (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:1c10] (rev b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:1c12] (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:1c16] (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1c26] (rev 05)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1c4d] (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point SATA AHCI Controller [8086:1c03] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation Cougar Point SMBus Controller [8086:1c22] (rev 05)
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communication Inc. Device [168c:0032] (rev ff)
03:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: Device [1b73:1009] (rev 02)

By the way, a question not concerned with the WLAN driver but may concern with the above hardware: the laptop cannot wake up from suspend (acpitool -s). I check the wake up device and found all except a SLPB were disabled. I can enable all the PCI related device and a EHC1, but all the others, including USB1 through USB7, refuse to be enabled. So still cannot wakeup.


[Edited] to add one more PCI bridge and a network controller, I forgot to switch the camera, bluetooth and wireless back on in the Bios during the first attemp.

Was there no listing for either an Ethernet or WLAN controller?

[Edit] Apparently, these things don't have an Ethernet port.

That is all output I get. Perhaps it reflects the fact that the network interfaces were not recognized at all.

From the WIN7 that bundles with the laptop, I was able to determine the wireless lan is an Atheros AR9485WB-EG Wireless Network adapter. The USB dongle for wired lan is ASIX AX88772B USB2.0 to Fast Ethernet Adapter.

[added] Sorry I switched the bluetooth and wireless off in the BIOS after all attempts to detect them failed, in order to lengthen the battery range. I have added the new entries in the original post.

I wonder what would happen if you booted with Three-headed Dog and ran "lspci -nn" again. Maybe the newer kernel would reveal more devices.

Sorry I have forgotten that after a few days' testing with the varies distros but still cannot get the WLAN detected, I switched the bluetooth and wireless off in the BIOS last night in order to lengthen the battery range.

I have switched all device on in the Bios and have the LAN USB dongle plugged before booting and did a [lspci -nn] again. I have added the new entries in the original post.

By the way I am running icepuppy014, which I think has a slightly more recent kernel than the three-headed dog. I will test out the lspci command with other distros and report back if there is anything different.

So as not to hijack tempestuous' thread, I am sending you a PM.

csshin wrote:I forgot to switch the camera, bluetooth and wireless back on in the Bios during the first attemp.

Yep, I guessed you had your wifi disabled in bios.

csshin wrote:02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communication Inc. Device [168c:0032]

There's your wifi device, and it's quite new. This device ID is not recognised by the ath9k driver in Lucid 5.1-5.2.8.
I just tried to patch recognition of this ID into the driver, but unfortunately several other source files need to be updated as well - it's complicated, and the patched driver might still fail.

So you definitely need to move up to a more recent kernel version, with newer ath9k driver.
I just checked the 2.6.37 kernel ... and the ath9k driver still doesn't recognise your device there, either.
So Slacko 5.3 and Three-Headed Dog won't work.

But it appears that your wifi device is recognised from the 2.6.39 kernel onwards, so you could use -

Dpup Exprimo 5.X.9
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70399

Polarpup-005
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=68796

Guy Dog 5.0.1
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72576

and maybe also one of the experimental releases with 3.x kernel ??

tempestuous wrote:
So you definitely need to move up to a more recent kernel version, with newer ath9k driver.
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and maybe also one of the experimental releases with 3.x kernel ??

Thank you very much rcrsn51 and tempestuous for your prompt responses.

I have tested rcrsn51's compat wireless pet (from PM) without success on icepuppy014 (kernel 2.6.38.x?) and also on wuxiandianzi 's lupu 5.28 kernel 3.1.0. For the latter, it refused to save a personal storage file and so I cannot test again after installation and reboot.

I will try to download the other pups and test it out again. That will take some time as I have a slow internet connection.

By the way do I need to install the ath9k firmware pet besides rcrsn51's compat wireless pet to test?

csshin wrote:By the way do I need to install the ath9k firmware pet besides rcrsn51's compat wireless pet to test?

No. The firmware you're probably referring to is for the ath9k_htc driver.
This is a different driver for USB variants of the Atheros chipset. It's unrelated to PCI/Cardbus devices with the Atheros chipset.

Dpup Exprimo 5.X.9 and Guy Dog 5.0.1 successfully recognized the Atheros AR9485 chip in the WLAN of ASUS Zenbook out of the box.

rcrsn51's compat wireless pets for kernel 2.6.33.x worked for lupu 528. That for kernel 2.6.37.x worked for Three-headed dog.

Thank you all for your help.

I still have the problem of getting the Sentelic touchpad (can move and tap to click but not configurable for other touchpad functions like the synaptic pad) and suspend (cannot enable the keyboard or any USB device as wakeup tool so cannot recover from suspend) to work.
Do you have any direction to point me to?

tempestuous, I have received a request for usb3 in 5.2.8. I do not even know if this is a simple kernel mode driver, or what is involved. Do you have any recommendations?

I have also been informed that usb3 works in Slacko 5.3 but not in Three-Headed Dog which uses the same kernel. Does that mean there is something else involved other than a kernel driver?

Thanks for any help.

Yes, USB3.0 is a standard kernel module. In the kernel configuration it's found at -
Device Drivers > USB support > xHCI HCD (USB 3.0) support

playdayz wrote:I have also been informed that usb3 works in Slacko 5.3 but not in Three-Headed Dog which uses the same kernel. Does that mean there is something else involved other than a kernel driver?

Not to my knowledge. In the case of the failing Three-Headed Dog installation, first check that the module is actually included - and also check "dmesg" for clues.

tempestuous wrote:I have just added the Ralink rt5390sta wifi driver to the earlier post in this thead -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 618#494618

I still have one additional Ralink wifi driver to add; rt3090sta
but no one has asked for it yet.

I would very much like this please, if you still have it.