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DaveS
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#151 Post by DaveS »

I have been having an 'interesting' time getting my Broadcom BCM9 43xxx chipset to work in Pup. Firstly, Pup (4.1) recognizes the chipset correctly. Brilliant. For me that is the first time I have used a 'free' linux distro that can do this. Having had so much trouble with this chipset in the past (ndiswrapper etc), I figured I would need to configure the connection myself. WRONG! Trying to do so led to all manner of problems, and no connection. Here is how I found works best: after boot, just WAIT until the network connected icon appears in the systray. This takes about a minuite. Dont be fooled. Pup has recognised the interface and loaded it, but you still wont have a connection. SO, from the menu, or a desktop icon if you set one up, run Pwireless Network Scanner. This should pick up and list your network. Highlight the one you want to connect to if more than one is listed and hit the 'connect' button. Pup will then acquire a network address from you router and log you in. Done!
I wish I could get those last stages to happen automatically, but nothing I try makes it happen. Still, no biggie, and brilliant for recognising and supporting this known to be difficult chipset. Great great Distro :-)

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#152 Post by issarad »

Thank you for this list of working WIFI cards! I picked up a Netgear WG311v3 PCI card today and it works like a charm with the windows driver wrapper under TeenPup 2008.

Now this PC can go back to my bedroom at the other end of the house without having to run almost 100 feet of cable.

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#153 Post by Dumdideldum »

Netgear WG111v2 USB stick works flawlessy in Puppy 4.1 without any manual work. It contains the RTL8187 chipset, which seems to be natively supported by the kernel.


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ASUS WL-100G PCMCIA b/g

#155 Post by jonlowe »

Asus WL_100G PCMCIA wireless card.

This card works GREAT with an old HP Omnibook 800ct, with a fast Pentium 166 MMX processor and 80mb of ram! I'm using it now. Does WAP, WEP, etc. Puppy 4.1 regular and retro picked it up in the wizard instantly. Uses the "b43" driver. A lot of other cards put too much load on the CPU. I'd tried a Netgear WG511T that worked great on another laptop with Puppy that had a 650 mHz processor. But while recognized on the Omnibook, would never hook up. This ASUS card isn't bleeding edge, but has wireless g and the security I wanted. Found it on Amazon for less than $20.

Jon

clicketyclack
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#156 Post by clicketyclack »

Airlink AWLH6070 150n pci card works out of the box with 4.1, but with no support for encryption

alcide
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#157 Post by alcide »

experimented with puppylinux 4.1

a Packard Bell Imedia 4050 machine with a intern DLink DWL-G150 only worked with WEP

a tiny experiment with the same machine provided with a dlink dongle dwl-g132 did not seem to work

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Puppy 4.1 and 4.1.1

#158 Post by Dpup »

I have also experimented with Puppy 4.1 and 4.1.1 wireless WPA2 TKIP. The ones that worked consistently well, including auto re-connect on boot, installed with Puppy's wizard and ndiswrapper or mod as indicated include:

1) Acer 3003 Laptop, internal wifi, wizard
2) Hewlett Packard DV6833us laptop, internal wifi, wizard
3) ASUS Eee PC 1000HA netbook, internal wifi, madwifi for Eee
4) ZyXEL AG225H, USB dongle with built in sniffer and more, wizard
5) Airlink AWLL3028 USB dongle (Fry's sale item at $ 8 ), ndiswrapper
6) Airlink AWLL3055 USB dongle with 10dB gain antenna, (Fry's sale item at $15), wizard
7) Airlink AWLL6070 USB dongle, (Fry's sale item at $15), ndiswrapper
8 ) Linksys WUSB100, ndiswrapper

I know there are many many more that also work, but several of the USB dongle units that I tried above are among the lowest cost USB wireless adapters I have found at various local sales. Hope this information is helpful to others.

firak
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Confirm work Belkin

#159 Post by firak »

I'm happy to see that this usb wirless Belkin G+ was already recognized ..
was easy to configurean -ip etc. in linux puppy. Amazing!
I yous istall 4.1.1 fro a version of tux (dowlod the iso called nov08 )

It is amazing no to search for drivers. Tanks linux comunity, thank barry & tux and all the puppy friends.

Installing hardware, operating system is not easy anyway, at least puppy always give me dissatisfaction.

Yust let you know that for use the same device bekin c+ in winXP, with the original diskette , take me few hours. with puppy did work in a flash!

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#160 Post by ranmaru »

under Puppy 4.1.2

Gigafast WF-748 usb - puppy autodetects the driver, so no need to manually load. (uses the zd1211rw driver) Works unencrypted. WEP and WPA both work perfectly. this unit is discontinued and no longer in production. Disk that came with it had Linux drivers as well.

Retail Plus usb wireless- same chipset as above. works just like the gigafast. Got mine for under $25. Comes with a disk including Linux drivers...


Zonet -ZEW2502 usb- must use ndiswrapper (I was successful with the windows xp driver). Works unencrypted. Tried WPA but didn't work. WEP was untried.

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Edimax

#161 Post by ecomoney »

Ive tried several edimax wifi adaptors, they work with the R73 usb driver under puppy 2.15ce (needs to be loaded first). Puppy 4.12 picks them up straight away. I havnt tested them with other versions of puppy, but I do know that WEP works with them (havnt tried WPA)

the EDIMAX EW-7318USg comes with an external antanea that is detachable and gives superior range (weve used it commercially for some time now to get round some tight spots). I understand you can also connect different antennas to get better range or "focus the beam" in certain areas. I believe pringles cans are useful? As is chinese cookware.

In britain you can get one for about ten pounds
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Wi-Fi connection in WOOF

#162 Post by straypup »

For the first time my wi-fi (RTL8187B) was recognized. After loading it said I was online. Saddly, this wasn't the case. I have always used NDISWRAPPER befor with success, but the drivers provided will not work for the "b" version. Tried blacklisting but to no avail, apparently reloads the linux driver again. Any ideas or can I go back to a different version of the networking wizard as I am command line challanged. Thanks....
Stray

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Re: Wi-Fi connection in WOOF

#163 Post by tempestuous »

straypup wrote:the drivers provided will not work for the "b" version.
Try the proprietary "r8187" driver from here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 339#252339

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$11.99 at meritline

#164 Post by mechmike »

http://www.meritline.com/ieee-802-11g-w ... drive.html

REALTEK 8187 Chipset, works with Puppy 4.1.1 on my notebook.

They run coupons periodically where you can buy this for $10 shipped in the US...

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Works with Netcomm NP544

#165 Post by Marcel »

I have discovered that the Netcomm NP544 USB dongle has Ralink chipset RT2501USB.
This can be found at www.atlantis-land.com (which is in Italian, but the specs are in English).
The specs also show as:
RT2501USB (RT2508+RT2571W)

I got wireless to work with Pup4.11.
However, I had to by-pass Ndiswrapper in the wizard, and instead, downloaded a NetcommXP set for NP544, which contains SiS163u.INF, and executed the following lines (case is significant):
ndiswrapper -i SiS163u.INF
ndiswrapper -l
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig
rmmod
Seems to work.
If I have any problems I'll post again.
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#166 Post by tempestuous »

Marcel wrote:However, I had to by-pass Ndiswrapper in the wizard, and instead, downloaded a NetcommXP set for NP544, which contains SiS163u.INF
Then your wifi device contains a SiS 163U chipset, not Ralink RT2571.
Since the SiS chipset has no native Linux driver available, then yes, ndiswrapper is your only choice of driver.
If your device truly had an RT2501 chipset then it would be supported by Puppy's "rt73usb" Linux driver.

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Linksys WUSB54G v4

#167 Post by slugsathome »

Just installed Puppy 4.1.2 on a old Toshiba laptop. Using a WUSB54Gv4
Linksys adapter. Setup loaded the ralink 2500 driver. It would connect and DCHP worked but 90% of the time it would not browse and the few times it would it was VERY slow. Used the wizard and unloaded the ralink driver then used ndiswrapper to load the v4 .inf off the setup disk. Works great now!

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Sierra Wireless Aircard 811

#168 Post by HP-TQ-RPM »

Hi All! First post here. :)

I installed Pupply a few days ago; the download and initial installation went fine.
When I went to setup my Sierra Wireless Aircard 811, I started by going to Puppy Setup / Connect to the Internet or Intranet / Internet by Wireless GPRS Modem / GPRS Setup.
Unfortunately, I entered incorrect information in the GPRS setup, and was unable to connect, so I spent the better part of the last 2 days reading everything I could here (Linux noob, so I didn't understand a lot of it.) I began to realize that I wasn't ever seeing the GPRS setup anymore, just the Dialup setup, if I clicked on it. After several hours of going around in circles, including multiple re-boots, and trips back to WinXP to connect so I could browse here, I deleted the pup-sys whatever from Windows and did a fresh install.
After the new install, I entered the correct information in the GPRS Setup, and it connected the first try-good thing, since clicking on the button by "Internet by Wireless GPRS Modem" doesn't bring up the GPRS Setup screen anymore.
Apparently this is a one shot deal!

Seriously, how does one get back to the GPRS Setup screen? :?

Jonathan

Edit: After 4-5 days of pretty intensive internet usage, and a lot of downloads, I'm amazed to find that my Aircard (or my wireless connection via the Aircard) works BETTER with Puppy Linux than it ever did under WinXP. I used to have to try 3-4 times in order for a download to start. Once started they always finished with no problems, but a lot of times after clicking a "download" button the download progress indicator window would show that nothing was happening. With Puppy, every single download has started and completed successfully the first time. :) :)
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Puppy 4.20 Frugal on Toshiba Satellite A45, WinXP/Puppy, 2.5GHz Celeron, 1GB Ram, 120GB HD, Sierra 811 Aircard via AT&T.

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Zyxel g202 usb wireless adaptor works on Pup420

#169 Post by thelash »

Connected zyxel g202 usb adaptor to an old beige xp box at work to get onto the work server.
Discovered that pup4.1 would load the zd1211 module for this adaptor, but would not work - couldn't get onto our network. Got online eventually using ndiswrapper and the xp driver but access to the local network via pnethood/samba very erratic. Lots of attempts needed, sometimes with success, sometimes not.
Setup pup420 - bingo! Seamless load and use of the zd1211 module, perfect first time every time access to the network and server.
Very happy puppy!

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#170 Post by egosumpaul »

Damn it! 6 months and still cannot make my PB S18 (AKA Kohjinsha SAx) wireless card work. It's a stupid Winbond card, I have the module (w35und.ko) but the load module app does not recognize it. Ndiswrapper is unusable since there is no .inf file on WindowsXP.
I like this distro so much, I even can avoid using the touch screen, but this 7 inches pc without wireless access to internet is useless.
Any suggestions?

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