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ubee · Joined: 07 Oct 2012 Posts: 1

I have just tried Puppy 5.3.3 on two laptops. One one of those with a 5xxx Atheros WLAN chipset, the WLAN interface is extremely slow. Takes 30-40s to load a simple web page. Ethernet interface works fine. On the other laptop I have no problem.

I have a WPA protected setup, and have not tried without encryption (do not want to have a public setup).

Any idea how to solve this? Since this is an old piece of hardware I guess the driver should be stable. Or is there an update available?

EDIT: I enabled a hotspot on my cellphone without encryption. WLAN worked flawless over this connection. So my taking is there is a problem with the Atheros driver in the 5.3.3. Do anyone know of an update, and how do I apply this?

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 2942 Location: Sydney Australia

Welcome to Puppy >>> ubee.

Best to give us your laptop specs...both of them.

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" I enabled a hotspot on my cellphone without encryption"

Be careful....too easy to hack.

How to tether Ideos X3 Phone...hoe I do it.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77767

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Try >> DpupExprimo5X327 >>an earlier series....
and Frisbee.

http://smokey01.com/pemasu/DpupSqueeze5X/DpupExprimo5X327

squeeze-5.X.3.2.7-SCSI.iso 23-Feb-2012 15:36 150M

Chris.