Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

dadeo · Posted: Thu 24 Feb 2011, 12:53 Post subject:

Hi! Great board! Thanks for having me. Very Happy

I have a Dell Mini 910 with a Broadcom wifi (presuming it's in the 4312 group but stamped on card is - BCM94312MCG - unsure what the 9 signifies, if anything). The only Linux that saw and used it was an Ubuntu live disk - 8.xx, I think and don't know the kernel. So far, no luck with puppy but have only tried Lighthouse so far. But I know the card works, at least.

I have latest: 5.2 ready to go onto a 2G USB drive. I think it supports the driver needed for the mini, the one linked to above: BCM4213 802.11b/g, I think. I tried using the posted .pet with Lighthouse

Well, back to the threads.

dadeo

Posting this via wifi on the little Inspiron Mini. Cool

Thanks to the instructions in this and related threads and especially to piratesmack, edisonl and The.Scarecrow for a fine follow-up. Mr. Green

mill0001 · Posted: Sat 05 Mar 2011, 04:03 Post subject:

Hi piratesmack, using lupu-5.2 upgraded to luci252 on amd b-55 quad core @3.2 Ghz with 4 gigs ram. My card is a Netgear wn311b,chip is broadcom bcm43xg [14e4: 4329] (rev 01). The driver works but the network wizard reports the card as eth0 instead of wlan0. The connection comes up okay but drops after a few minutes, and then have to use wizard to set it up again. Any suggestions on how to correct this? ps: Installed Jemimah's Frisbee pet and that seems to hold the connection longer, but it's still dropping after a short while and have to reset it from setup dialogue again.

rarsa · Posted: Wed 09 Mar 2011, 23:12 Post subject:

Thank you piratesmack!

This is what makes Linux in general and Puppy in particular great! People that take the time to scratch and itch and in the process, help other people.

I have this laptop where I wasn't using Puppy as much as I wanted. The reason? this wacky wireless chipset.

I tried to compile it long ago, but I didn't have enough time to play, after that, I just gave up to do some other things.

Today I decided to find if someone else had luck with it, and found your post.

I'll be booting up Puppy on this laptop much more frequently.

Thanks again.

piratesmack · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 100

Thanks for the feedback, everybody. I'm glad you have found this helpful.

For anybody interested, here is a small (about 3.4MB) Xdelta patch you can apply to the original lupu-520.iso to add support for Broadcom STA.

After applying the delta patch, your wifi should "just work".
Tested on my Dell mini with a bcm4312 (14e4:4315)

Download (md5sums)

For any devs interested, here is what I changed

This is similar to what jrb and tempestuous did for Puppy 4.3.1:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50570

edit: *DOWNLOADS UPDATED*
(I forgot to append the ID string to lupu_520.sfs and run depmod in the initrd)

@mill0001:
Sorry for the late reply.

Can you check for me if ssb is loaded? (that might be making your wifi disconnect)

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 580 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day piratesmack,

Thank you for the delta for Lupu-5.20. I have just made the modified .iso into a Windows executable (via the Puppy Windows Installer) and installed this onto my new Samsung laptop with its Broadcom wireless chip. Now with 5.20, I can find my home wireless network.

The Samsung previously had resisted my efforts to get a Puppy to find the Broadcom wireless module, let alone connect, leaving me only with Windows 7 as a means of wireless connectivity. So a pretty restricted, if not useless new computer.

Now encouraged by your delta, I'll try harder to get the other Windows-installed Pups on this Samsung to use the STA driver you've made available in several .pet versions.

Again, many thanks.

David S.

piratesmack · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 100

davids45, thanks for testing.

If requested, I can create delta files for other Puppies.
I'll probably create some for the upcoming Quirky 1.5 and Puppy 5.2.1 releases, since I'll be using those.

zamah · Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Posts: 3

Hi Piratesmack!

Thanks for all your posts concerning Broadcom wireless driver. I really loved all your endeavours to have it functioned.

I am completely new user of Puppy Linux although I have been using
UBUNTU for more that a year. I tried many distros and eventually found
Puppy which impressed me a lot.

I downloaded 5.25 and after installing it to my HP 2140 mini faced a
problem with setting Wi-Fi up.

Searching the net I came across your detailed How-To and appreciated it
so much. I managed to install 'broadcom_sta-5.6.48.36-i486.pet' by
following this instruction:

Instructions:
1) Install package
2) Blacklist b43/ssb
3) Restart computer

After that I got eth1 visible.

The eth1 is now active and finds all Wi-Fi nets around me. I use Ad-Hoc
at home between host computer (UBUNTU lucid) and my laptop with the
same OS which has been working perfectly for many months. The net uses
WEP encryption and automatic DHCP so I just pick right net from the air
by my netbook and enter WEP key to let it work immediately.

However, after loading Puppy on my HP2140 from the flash drive and
setting wireless up web browser doe not connect to any hosts. Network
indicator also does not show any activity.

Also what made me surprised the following commands return warnings

modprobe -r wl
modprobe wl

I see something like:

"WARNING: Deprecating config .... /etc/modepr..." (I do not remember the message exactly)

By the way I created and burned ISO 'lupu-525_bcmwlmod.iso'. I also
tried to install lupu-511, but every time Wi-Fi did not work although
it was visible in the list of available nets at my place.

I would appreciate your assistance so much in finding solution.

piratesmack · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 100

Hi zamah,

The first thing I'd try is Frisbee network manager
A pet for lupu can be downloaded from here.

If that doesn't work, what is the output of the following command?

zamah · Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Posts: 3

Hi Piratesmak!

Many thanks for your response.

1) The code

piratesmack · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 100

Great! Glad it works now.

One thing, though. You don't need to install the broadcom_sta .pet with my patched iso.
It already has the driver built-in.

zamah · Joined: 07 Apr 2011 Posts: 3

Exactly!

I mentioned c) Installed broadcom_sta-5.6.48.36-i486.pet; in the list by mistake. I did not do that in fact...

SimpleWater · Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Posts: 95

You fixed my wifi troubles, but i could not have done this without the.scarecrow's step by step instructions. Many thanks to both

john3voltas · Joined: 23 May 2011 Posts: 98

Greetings.
I have an Asus 1015PEM netbook computer that needs this driver.
I have it installed under Puppy 5.2.5 and it's working great (installed via PET) even without blacklisting b43.
My question is: can I use this PET package in Puppeee 4.3?
I'd say I can't, right? Probably because kernel version is not the same.
Just making sure, because I ain't an experienced Linux user Wink

.
Cheers

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4355 Location: merriam, kansas