wireless / wifi cards confirmed to work in puppy

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#106 Post by cthisbear »

LukeM:

Nice helpful report mate.

Cheers....Chris.

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#107 Post by rokytnji »

Wireless N pcmcia sold out of China that I bought

It uses a

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Card-2: Ralink RT2800 802.11n PCI driver: rt2800pci
chip.

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# iwconfig wlan1 | grep -i --color quality
          Link Quality=52/70  Signal level=-58 dBm 
iwconfig wlan1 | grep -i --color signal
          Link Quality=52/70  Signal level=-58 dBm  

I used to run a Belkin F5D 7010 .ver 6 PCMCIA Wireless G card in here (IBM T23 Laptop).

Price is right for New wireless N pcmcia and they ship worldwide. I already have mine. I am not affiliated and I am not spamming this. Just posting info and think it is a good deal for Wireless N in Puppy on old gear.

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#108 Post by stray_dog »

I picked up a used HP Elitebook that has one of these Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300's in it. I've been using Slack0 5.6 & 5.7 & it works pretty well. Uses the iwlwifi driver. Sometimes it's slow to connect to an unencrypted signal when using Frisbee, but after a connection is made, seems alright.

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#109 Post by Flash »

NetGear N900 (WNDA4100) USB wireless dongle works in all Puppies with late kernels. Fatdog64-700a1; Slacko64-5.9.1; Tahr-5.8.3 all found the N900 out of the box. Others may work as well, I just didn't get around to trying them.

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#110 Post by don570 »

Netgear Wn 111 USB wifi dongle works in tahr and other puppies
It has been unstable in precise 5.7.1

Netgear Wn 111 USB wifi

Edit: It's stable in precise puppy. I had a damaged install which was giving me
a bad result.

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#111 Post by stray_dog »

Ubiquiti SWX-SRX and SR71 both worked for me nicely on slacko 6.

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#112 Post by RetroTechGuy »

Got this o.n s.a.l.e (even cheaper than listed)

EDIMAX EW-7811Un N150 USB 2.0 Wireless nano Adapter
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6833315091

Works in Win7 (using provided driver from CD -- not automagic)

Works under Puppy 5.28 (using the XP driver from CD, and windows wrapper).

(my internal card failed and was replaced with this -- in addition to low external profile, the heat coming from my Win7 laptop dropped substantially -- apparently the internal card was shedding lots of heat -- didn't check for shorts in it yet...)
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#113 Post by rcrsn51 »

RetroTechGuy wrote:EDIMAX EW-7811Un
That device uses the rtl8192cu driver and should work in any k3.x Puppy without needing ndiswrapper.

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#114 Post by RetroTechGuy »

rcrsn51 wrote:
RetroTechGuy wrote:EDIMAX EW-7811Un
That device uses the rtl8192cu driver and should work in any k3.x Puppy without needing ndiswrapper.
Thanks Rcrsn.

I couldn't get the device to show up at all, until I used the XP drivers (running 5.28.005 IIRC rev correctly).
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Wifi with EDIMAX EW-7811Un and Slacko

#115 Post by kforce »

EDIMAX EW-7811Un
Works out of the box with Slacko 5.7.
Have it working on 2 computers and
have had no issues with connecting or
throughput. Purchased from NewEgg

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#116 Post by spongedaddy »

Excellent -- thanks for this.

I just downloaded the latest Slacko 5.7 and it doesn't see my TRENDnet usb. Will probably be ordering one of the edimax's today.

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#117 Post by rcrsn51 »

spongedaddy wrote:I just downloaded the latest Slacko 5.7 and it doesn't see my TRENDnet usb.
Please identify the full model name of your adapter. There is probably a driver for it.

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Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] OK (tahrpup 6.0 on HP G60)

#118 Post by hapless_user »

Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] i

OK ! using tahrpup 6.0 and lxtahr on HP G60 laptop

Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] [8086:0084]
• Kernel Driver: iwlwifi
• Memory Used: 68.49 KB
• Path: /lib/modules/3.14.20/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko
• Driver Version: in-tree:
• Description: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux

Puppy asked me to confirm as it is not on the list as being wpa compliant so being a good "master" I am here to say it works fine on my wpa-tkip network
(I haven't tried it with a hidden network yet)

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#119 Post by spongedaddy »

rcrsn51 wrote:
spongedaddy wrote:I just downloaded the latest Slacko 5.7 and it doesn't see my TRENDnet usb.
Please identify the full model name of your adapter. There is probably a driver for it.
It's a TRENDnet TEW624UB (wireless N, if that makes a difference). I went to their website and it looks like they just have drivers for Win and Mac.

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#120 Post by rcrsn51 »

There are several versions of your TRENDnet TEW624UB, based on different chipsets. But they should all be detected by Slacko 5.7. So I suspect that the problem is with firmware, which often occurs in Slacko.

Plug in the adapter and run the command: lsusb.

Identify the vendor:product ID codes. They may be 0bda:8174 or 20f4:624d.

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#121 Post by spongedaddy »

Yep -- I got the following:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 20f4:624d

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#122 Post by rcrsn51 »

spongedaddy wrote:ID 20f4:624d
So you have version D1 of the TRENDnet TEW624UB and it uses the kernel module rtl8192cu.

1. Go to the folder /lib/firmware/rtlwifi

2. Delete the file rtl8192cufw.bin (if it is present)

3. Leave this window open.

4. Go to the folder /lib/modules/all-firmware/rtlwifi/lib/firmware/rtlwifi

5. Drag the file rtl8192cufw.bin into the first window

6. Close the windows.

7. Unplug/replug the adapter.

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#123 Post by spongedaddy »

I've got a couple of different rtl files. None that are named rtl8192cufw.bin but a couple named rtl8192cufw_A.bin and rtl8192cufw_B.bin.

I'm tempted to drag both of them to the /lib/firmware/rtlwifi directory. A good idea or no?

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#124 Post by rcrsn51 »

Move them all. What Slacko version are you using: 5.7-non-PAE or 5.7.0-PAE? The first one was known to be wonky.

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#125 Post by spongedaddy »

Ugh.

I have 5.7-NO-pae. Will move them all but don't mind grabbing the PAE version.

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