I managed to get it networking working again! see here

Is your network ssid hidden?

try un-hiding it and see if you can connect that way!

I've managed to get it connected again! What I did was I disabled WEP encryption and unhide the network ssid Then I used "pwireless wireless scanner" program to connect to the network and it connected and gave me a (correct) ip address Then I re-enabled WEP (with the same key) connected to...

I'm having the same problem as rkismet, on first boot of puppy 4 I managed to get a network connection, then on subsequent boots nothing! dhcpcd is returning a 169. address. In resolv.conf the name server is set as my router ip address, and it was automatically created by dhcpcd! I'm going to try so...

I also have this problem, I have managed once to get wireless working, then I turned it off, saving my settings, but next time I booted up, nothing, nada, nil, zip, zero! In resolv.conf its showing the right name server, and the domain to search, but it just keeps giving me the wrong ip address and ...

How about updating this for version 4? It seems that wireless setup is different in the latest release, as no matter what there is no dhcpc folder in /etc Yet when I try to run dhcpcd it says its already running Also, if i run iwconfig ra0 essid name iwconfig ra0 key open 0102030405060708090a0b0c0d ...

Ok, I've had a chance to see what was happening...

it seems that it is using xvesa to display the graphics.

If I try "xorgwizard" then I get an "input/output error"

If anyone can help your help will be much appreciated

I had this really strange problem, in that what ever I tried I just couldn't get the x server up and running, the test screens would work, but it would refuse to load x, and even the "safe" xvesa wouldn't work either, it would keep stopping and starting again. The solution? I started Puppy...