Frisbee doesn't see my wireless network -Lucid 5.2.8 -SOLVED

[cthisbear]

" As an update the Win XP is now having problems which I haven't sorted yet"

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That is why you need to change the wireless channel.

Possible interference.

https://www.lifewire.com/wifi-channel-n ... nce-818208

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Chris.

[perdido]

@perdido I tried the ndiswrapper method and it does detect the "card" as wlan0.. Ndiswrapper insisted on the unloading of the wired driver for eth0.
It acquired an address from the router (it says) but I don't know how to join our network which requires a wpa2 password.

I have never needed ndiswrapper to connect so I'm guessing starting from here.
After acquiring an address maybe use Frisbee to connect and supply a password?

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[wimpy]

@cthisbear I tried that but it made no difference. From my reading and the symptoms it's likely to be a winsock corruption. There are fixes and I may try them but Windows XP is dead in the water. The PC is approx 60cm from the router, the signal strength is excellent and Lubuntu 16.08 on the PC connects and runs wirelessly. There are some laptops, iphones and mobiles around the house running Win 7 and 10 and other OSes - all connect wirelessly fine on this channel.
@perdido I need to do more reading on ndiswrapper but as rcsnr51 has said it might be better to try a 4.x Kernel puppy. So far, on this old PC. only Lubuntu16.08 has matched the ease of connection of the Windows (7 and 10), Apple and Android OSes

[wimpy]

@rcrsn51 Thank you for the link to those mt7601u pets. I did a frugal install of Lxxenial16.08 and used the appropriate pet. Network Manager recognised the "card" and I am now on a wireless connection to the Internet using the router. I am most grateful for your help - it was spot on!
My thanks to everyone who helped. I'll mark this as "Solved"

[rcrsn51]

Excellent. For the benefit of other readers, which PET did you install?

[wimpy]

mt7601u_xenial_704-k4.1.31.pet. It seemed to tie in with the LxXenial16.08-pae iso, that I used for the frugal install, This puppy (I'm using it at the moment) has a 4.1.31 folder in /lib/modules, with some items in it. It also has a 4.52 folder but that was empty. I guessed that the 4.1.31 pet would be the right one to go for - and it worked!