IIRC, the last time I tried that it didn't make a difference, but I'll have another look. Hopefully I don't have to throttle the machine's network speed to barely faster than my Acorn A7000+ manages!01micko wrote:Netgear dongles are notorious for poor Linux support. It took many years for the kernel developers to get it right for the netgear-wg111-v2, which they eventually did. The symptoms were similar to what you say and the solution for stable connection was to reduce the rate of the thing from full speed to a fraction. I'm not sure what would be optimal for a, IEEE-802.11n dongle though as they ramped up the speed significantly. To change the rate:..and if it worksCode: Select all
iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M fixed
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echo "iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M fixed" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
I'll post dmesg in the next few days. Having sorted out a temporary replacement hard drive, I had a go on an old Slacko 5.3.3 save and noticed there was a carl9170 pet installed on it, but I can't remember why - there isn't one on any of my other Slacko 5.3.3 saves and the WN111v2 works perfectly on that.01micko wrote:Also, post your dmesg output, it may be firmware or similar.
Searching the forum, I seem to have reported a similar problem on the old Slacko 5.3.3.2 thread, in that case the dongle wasn't seen at all until I installed a pet you provided, which then had the same problems I'm seeing now. I wonder if that save with the pet on had been upgraded to 5.3.3.2 - I really should've kept notes.
As you say, it's probably kernel or firmware, Lupu tended to use an older kernel version than the versions of Slacko that I've used. In the meantime Slacko 5.3.3 will probably remain the main Puppy version on the Pentium D for the time being.