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I recently installed Puppy Linux 2.15CE on an old Dell (XPS D333). I'm setting up an old computer for a parent to use for email so it was important to find a disto that was easy to use as possible which is why I chose Puppy. I was using a Netgear WG11T for internet access. This works great with the live cd. which is the reason I thought I would perform a proper install. After installation I have two problems:

1. The first is X doesn't start automatically. I have to use startx from command line to get into the windows managers. How can I automate this so it goes straight into the windows manager.

2. Although the wireless card works with the live cd when I install I can't get the card to be recognized.

For the live cd I went through the network wizard, loaded the appropriate drivers from the netgear cd. wlan0 was recognized and I setup WPA again using the wizard, successfully obtaining an internet connection. After a hard drive install, I went thorugh the same setup but this time I can't see wlan0.

If I use ndiswrapper -l , I get

netwg11t : driver installed

but there is no 'hardware present' message.

I can see the card using the usb utility and the device id 1385:4251 corresponds to
/etc/ndiswrapper/netwg11t/1385\:4251.F file present.

Is there an error in the installation routine for 2.15 CE. I've attached dmesg output and /var/log/messages.Thanks in advance for any assistance


dmesg:

ndiswrapper: driver netwg11t (NETGEAR,09/05/2005,1.5.0.2102) loaded
ndiswrapper (ExAllocatePoolWithTag:1009): Windows driver allocating 526408 bytes
in interrupt context: 0, 0, 0
ndiswrapper (ZwQueryValueKey:2535): not fully implemented (yet)
ndiswrapper (ExAllocatePoolWithTag:1009): Windows driver allocating 526616 bytes
in interrupt context: 0, 0, 0
ndiswrapper (ExAllocatePoolWithTag:1009): Windows driver allocating 526616 bytes
in interrupt context: 0, 0, 0
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:230): log: C0001389, count: 4, return_addres
s: cc9fbbbb
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:233): code: 0xc7513674
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:233): code: 0x28
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:233): code: 0xc2e20000
ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:233): code: 0xc2e20000
ndiswrapper (miniport_init:270): couldn't initialize device: C0000001
ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:426): Windows driver couldn't initialize the devic
e (C0000001)
unregister_netdevice: device eth%d/c7513000 never was registered
ndiswrapper (miniport_halt:326): device c7513280 is not initialized - not haltin
g
ndiswrapper: device eth%d removed
ndiswrapper: probe of 4-5:1.0 failed with error -22
usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper


/var/log/messages
Mar 13 21:23:59 (none) user.warn kernel: ndiswrapper (ExAllocatePoolWithTag:1009): Windows driver allocating 526408 by
tes in interrupt context: 0, 0, 0
Mar 13 21:23:59 (none) user.err kernel: ndiswrapper (ZwQueryValueKey:2535): not fully implemented (yet)
Mar 13 21:23:59 (none) user.warn kernel: ndiswrapper (ExAllocatePoolWithTag:1009): Windows driver allocating 526616 by
tes in interrupt context: 0, 0, 0
Mar 13 21:24:02 (none) user.warn kernel: ndiswrapper (ExAllocatePoolWithTag:1009): Windows driver allocating 526616 by
tes in interrupt context: 0, 0, 0
Mar 13 21:24:19 (none) user.err kernel: ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:230): log: C0001389, count: 4, return_addr
ess: cc9fbbbb
Mar 13 21:24:19 (none) user.err kernel: ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:233): code: 0xc7513674
Mar 13 21:24:19 (none) user.err kernel: ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:233): code: 0x28
Mar 13 21:24:19 (none) user.err kernel: ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:233): code: 0xc06d0000
Mar 13 21:24:19 (none) user.err kernel: ndiswrapper (NdisWriteErrorLogEntry:233): code: 0xc06d0000
Mar 13 21:24:19 (none) user.warn kernel: ndiswrapper (miniport_init:270): couldn't initialize device: C0000001
Mar 13 21:24:19 (none) user.warn kernel: ndiswrapper (pnp_start_device:426): Windows driver couldn't initialize the de
vice (C0000001)
Mar 13 21:24:19 (none) user.debug kernel: unregister_netdevice: device eth%d/c7513000 never was registered
Mar 13 21:24:19 (none) user.warn kernel: ndiswrapper (miniport_halt:326): device c7513280 is not initialized - not hal
ting
Mar 13 21:24:19 (none) user.info kernel: ndiswrapper: device eth%d removed
Mar 13 21:24:19 (none) user.warn kernel: ndiswrapper: probe of 4-5:1.0 failed with error -22
Mar 13 21:24:19 (none) user.info kernel: usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper