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danxaz · Joined: 18 Feb 2012 Posts: 24

I'm running puppy 4.3 from a live cd. It works great but when I plug in my Wireless USB Adapter nothing happens. I have the driver cd that came with the adapter and it has linux drivers on it but I don't really know what to do with them. Can someone help please. BTW, I copied the cd to a flash drive and plugged it into my computer since my cd drive is being used by the live cd. The flash drive shows up and I can access all the folders but don't know where to go from there. Thanks.

Also, I have Windows XP on this computer and it's super slow. Puppy is much faster.

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 2048 Location: World_Hub

Hi Danxaz, welcome! Pup phaster than XP? Easily!

USB plugged.. open a terminal'n enter: dmesg | grep -i network and let's see what you've got there..

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

danxaz · Joined: 18 Feb 2012 Posts: 24

danxaz · Joined: 18 Feb 2012 Posts: 24

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danxaz · Joined: 18 Feb 2012 Posts: 24

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danxaz · Joined: 18 Feb 2012 Posts: 24

I got nothing when I entered "dmesg | grep -i network" in terminal

danxaz · Joined: 18 Feb 2012 Posts: 24

Any suggestions?

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5169 Location: Finland

rtl8188 could be the direction to go.

danxaz · Joined: 18 Feb 2012 Posts: 24

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Well, as pointed out by Pemasu, it seems you need the 8192cu driver, which also covers rtl8188cu. Unfortunately I couldn't get the driver to compile, (on p431).

Is there any reason why you couldn't try a newer pupversion? e.g. if you tried any of the lucid series Tempestuous has the driver for lucid here:

8192cu-k2.6.33.2.pet

Also, having 128M RAM, have you created a swap file, or swap partition?

danxaz · Joined: 18 Feb 2012 Posts: 24

Ok will try that. Couldn't get Slako to work, though so we'll see. Thanks!

danxaz · Joined: 18 Feb 2012 Posts: 24

If t works, how to I install the driver and make it work? Detailed, step-by-step instruction would be great!

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5169 Location: Finland

I have compiled 8192cu about week ago for dpup exprimo with 2.6.39.4 kernel...it was effort for one user.
It wont hurt if I post the pet here.
To install these pet packaged drivers. Install the pet and the driver might be immediately loaded. Due to pinstall.sh script inside driver pet. But rebooting is sometimes needed.

My pet does not work with Lucid Puppies. They have different, older kernel.

danxaz · Joined: 18 Feb 2012 Posts: 24

Loaded PET. It said it was loaded successfully. Still nothing happening with usb adapter (no lights blinking or anyting) Still dead. This is gettig frustrating. Can't go the Linux route if I can;t even connect to Internet. It's goota be easier than this, or whats the point?