Wifi-beta dot pup released for testing

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keenerd · #31 Post by **keenerd** » Mon 15 Aug 2005, 11:53

Peppyy, You say you've had trouble with your 600e? I haven't had too much trouble, and I've been keeping notes of my installation. (I will have to do it all over again at some point.) Sound works, but the audio crackles during USB transfers. Video works, most of the time.

Bladehunter, I had a thought about option 2 upgrading. Wouldn't we have to step the version number of Puppy back a notch? Barry had us do that once, to upgrade from 1.0.2 beta (?) to 1.0.2. The existing install was renamed 1.0.1, or somehing like that.

peppyy · #32 Post by **peppyy** » Mon 15 Aug 2005, 14:51

Peppyy, You say you've had trouble with your 600e? I haven't had too much trouble, and I've been keeping notes of my installation. (I will have to do it all over again at some point.) Sound works, but the audio crackles during USB transfers. Video works, most of the time.

Mostly sound problems I may have an answer to the video but I still need to do a few more tests. I would be really interested in what you have done to make yours all happy.
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I am still having a problem with wifi that I don't quite understand. If I am within range of my neighbors router the computer wont continue to boot after it detects his, possibly because it is encripted. I am going to try changing a few of the settings and see what happens.

What would happen if I left the essid and channel blank? My orinoco gold card automatically detects these on boot and connects as long as the encription is off.

Guest · #33 Post by **Guest** » Mon 15 Aug 2005, 22:42

Are you trying to get your IP via dhcp ?

peppyy · #34 Post by **peppyy** » Tue 16 Aug 2005, 04:13

Yes, well sort of. Here is what I have.

My gateway automatacally hands out network addresses as machines come and go so I need to use auto dhcp. My essid is "Home" and the default channel is "8", not worring about encription fot the moment.

Lets say I walk next door with my laptop and want to connect to that wireless network. The essid is "linksys" and the default channel is "5".

Not only do I need to change my wireless config but I also need to dhcp again for a new address. If I have a set address, the router will ignore the connection since it is set to hand the addresses out.

Is there an easy way to say, probe for the essid and channel and then ask for an address with dhcpcd wlan0 ? I may be way off base here but this is what my orinoco seems to do when it is eth0 and I run iwconfig. Although I still have to ask for an address, (DHCP) it finds network id's and channels automatically.

keenerd · #35 Post by **keenerd** » Wed 17 Aug 2005, 02:27

This is self promotional, but....

Have you tried complimenting Wifi-Beta with Wireless Access Gadget? If you card supports scanning, it will scan for networks and give each one its own button. Click to connect to anything that isn't password protected.

http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic ... 0027#10027

John Doe · #36 Post by **John Doe** » Wed 31 Aug 2005, 00:57

http://www.edgarbrits.net/puppy/dotpups/wifi-beta.pup

Gives me http authentication dialog.

Guest · #37 Post by **Guest** » Wed 31 Aug 2005, 02:41

Yep it will for the time being......I got a message the other day saying that I'd reached my limit of 20GB for the month....should be up again ok in the next day or so

John Doe · #38 Post by **John Doe** » Wed 31 Aug 2005, 03:27

bladehunter wrote:Yep it will for the time being......I got a message the other day saying that I'd reached my limit of 20GB for the month....should be up again ok in the next day or so

Ok. I'm going at it from scratch right now anyway. Figuring it all out from the bottom up will make me a more valuable asset to the group anyway.

John Doe · #39 Post by **John Doe** » Thu 01 Sep 2005, 09:31

John Doe wrote:Ok. I'm going at it from scratch right now anyway...

Like it matters, lol. I got f'ed by the Broadcom BCM4301 card. I have 5 matches in the list. The best two don't work and I'm depressed about the other three because of what I read all over the internet:

http://www.petitiononline.com/BCM4301/

Noobler · #40 Post by **Noobler** » Thu 01 Sep 2005, 19:58

Any other links to get the wifi-beta file, it's still asking for credetials. I am a total linux newbie and I am trying to get my internal wireless card in my dell 700m (intel pro 2200). I am using puppy 1.0.5 and I ran the hardware prob and it looks like it found it, but doesn't have the driver for it. Thanks in advance. Any help would be appreciated.

Guest · #41 Post by **Guest** » Thu 01 Sep 2005, 22:50

Still a few days till it will be back up

rarsa · #42 Post by **rarsa** » Tue 13 Sep 2005, 04:10

Hey bladehunter, my tough luck. I was ready to start testing with your wifi dotpup but apparently it's going to be off the air for some time.

I've had no problems on my laptop with the orinoco drivers that come with puppy, but the desktop has an RT2500 chipset. I had not had the need to use puppy on that other computer until now that I am braving the dangerous waters of slapt-get for puppy (Currently only Initial investigation).

Having Wifi on that computer will help me with that.

khrevolucionist has offered to host packages that don't fit in the forum. Have you asked him to host it meanwhile?

just an idea.

Guest · #43 Post by **Guest** » Tue 13 Sep 2005, 07:17

Not for sometime.....forever, as with the iso's

peppyy · #44 Post by **peppyy** » Tue 13 Sep 2005, 11:03

Rarsa, If you want to pm me with an addy I can e-mail it to you. I have it hosted on my webspace but I too have a bandwidth issue.I have the wifi-1.0.4-beta-2

reallynewby · #45 Post by **reallynewby** » Fri 16 Sep 2005, 01:51

I have Puppy installed on a Comapq Presario 1270 Laptop using Live CD version 1.04 using Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card. All works well except wireless. I have Ubuntu installed as the regular OS and wireless works ok.
I am new to Linux and have searched through the forum and WIKI looking for advice to help but am stuck. I am not sure how to determine next steps to get wireless running.

Any help would be appreciated.

rarsa · #46 Post by **rarsa** » Fri 16 Sep 2005, 04:07

Hey bladehunter, Thank you for the wifi dot pup!

It is working great with my RT2500 chipset.

I took me a long time to try it because I never realized that it was the ndiswrapper and because I barely use this computer with puppy.

Not for sometime.....forever, as with the iso's

Why is that? did your ISP decided to cut your bandwidth? or you just felt that your work wasn't appreciated . I for one appreciate your wifi dotPup.

It is allowing me to experiment with puppy installed to HDD. (I normally boot liveCD on a laptop)

BlackAdder · #47 Post by **BlackAdder** » Fri 16 Sep 2005, 06:24

reallynewby, it is not clear if you are connected to the Internet when using Puppy. If you are, can you do the following, please?
Plug in the PCMCIA card.
In Puppy, open a console window using rxvt (Start>Run>Rxvt....)
in the console window, enter :

lspci

This should give you a listing including the PCMCIA card. Mark the listing (click and drag). That will put it onto the clipboard.

Post a reply in this thread and paste your listing into it.

That should enable us to identify the nature of the adapter as a first step.

tempestuous · #48 Post by **tempestuous** » Fri 16 Sep 2005, 07:16

reallynewby,
The wifi-1.0.4-beta-2 package will probably work for you, but this seems overkill when the airo and airo_cs drivers are standard module options in modern 2.4 kernels.
I just checked Barry's kernel config for 2.4.29 - CONFIG_AIRO=m and CONFIG_AIRO_CS=m are there ... but the modules are strangely absent from Puppy. Perhaps these modules were "trimmed" out?

I have the modules in Vector Linux. Email me if you want them - they're only 60KB.

reallynewby · #49 Post by **reallynewby** » Fri 16 Sep 2005, 11:15

BlackAdder,
Sorry that my post was unclear. I am unable to use Puppy for wireless access - the cisco card does not seem to be recognized in Puppy (but it does work on the same laptop while running Ubuntu). I get a high pitch and a low pitch beep when the system boots or when I remove and reinstall the card.

Here is the output when I type lspci:

lspci
0:0.0 10b9:1541 (rev 04)
0:1.0 10b9:5243 (rev 04)
0:7.0 10b9:1533 (rev 0a)
0:9.0 125d:1969 (rev 02)
0:10.0 104c:ac1e
0:15.0 11c1:0441 (rev 01)
0:16.0 10b9:5229 (rev 20)
0:17.0 10b9:7101 (rev 09)
0:20.0 10b9:5237 (rev 03)
1:0.0 10024c42 (rev dc)

Thanks for your help

BlackAdder · #50 Post by **BlackAdder** » Sun 18 Sep 2005, 03:49

reallynewby,
Sorry it took a while to get back to you, but my attention was elsewhere. Cannot see the wireless adapter in the listing. In the words of the old Peggy Lee song "Is that all there is?". It is possible that lspci is not seeing your adapter.
Tempestuous has generously offered driver modules. You could take up his offer, but if you want to persist with the wifi beta_2.pup, could you please enter:

cardctl ident

(with the card plugged in, of course) and post the result back on this thread.

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