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[petty]

Hi,

I am testing the last version 3.98.
it looks very nice and is working fine.

I heave one problem and that is the Wireless-connection.

My AP has WPA2 and WPA/AES..
WPA2 is not working and WPA/AES does not excist for so far I can see.
Scanning for Ap's gives me a full list of excisting AP's, so the driver is active.
So it also could be a problem in Puppy.

Perhaps it is a setting-problem. I tries all the settings and it is not working.
Spec of my laptop:
- Intel Centrino Duo T7100,
- Intel Pro Wireless 3945 ABG

I hope this help You (and me) to solve the problem.

My gratulations for such a good work.

Grtz.

Petty

PS: it works nice in puppy 3.01

[BarryK]

You should be testing 4.00 beta2.

[mark2]

Dingo beta 2, 3.99, Upgrade.

Another wireless problem here, with the bcm43xx

worked in 2.1, worked with 2.15 and 3.01 with the firmware pet,

Tried network setup wizard, appears to load bcm43xx module, no new network interface found , tried ndiswrapper same result.

Rebooted with pfix=ram and tried once more, with the same results.

Any suggestions, how can I help the developers to resolve this?


edit - also tried with another wireless card using the r8180 chipset, again no new network interface found.

[BarryK]

mark2,
4.00beta2 has the same kernel and modules as 3.01, so it should work.

If it doesn't, then we need to look at the Network Wizard. Now, this Wizard has been updated by various contributors, not me, so I am reliant on others to fix any problems.

Okay, there is one thing that you can try. As your networking works in 3.01, you could try reverting to the same Network Wizard as used in 3.01.
If you go to the ibiblio.org Puppy download site, go to 'pet_packages-3' directory, download the 'net_setup-3.01.pet' package.

Expand the net_setup package somewhere:
# pet2tgz net_setup-3.01.pet
# tar -zxf net_setup-3.01.tar.gz

Examine the directories, rename the original files and directories then drag the new replacements to their target destinations. You can uninstall it by deleting what you have dragged and renaming back to the originals.

Try the Network Wizard, pleased let me know if it works. If we find that this works, a quick hack will be to offer a choice of old or new Wizard in 4.00.

[BarryK]

One other thing to check, is the firmware loaded in /lib/firmware?
In the case of bcm43, there should be files starting with bcm43* in that directory.

[Wellesfargo]

[kirk]

Barry wanted success stories too:

My IPW2200 wifi card is working fine.


The bcm43xx has been a problem. My wife's laptop has one, it worked with a dotpup from Tempestuous in 2.13, did not work with 3.01, haven't tried it with Dingo yet. There's a couple different modules and different firmware depending on which revision you have. See this:

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#bcm43xx.2Cb43legacy.2Cb43.2Csoftmac.2C...thefullstory

[Béèm]

Up to now I migrated from alpha to alpha and now beta through the version upgrade. My network (ipw2100) always did run.
I had to start with a clean beta 2, so with pfix=ram.

The network interface eth0 is created, the scan sees the AP, which is WEP protected and I gave the WEP key.

When testing eth0 I got the message: no live network could be found.
With Pwireless I have the same thing.

I am willing to revert to the 3.01 NW Wizard, but I am confused.
These are the instructions

[BarryK]

Béèm,
I instructed to do it manually so that you can easily revert back to the latest wizard after testing the one from 3.01.

[petty]

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