Beta 4, Opera PAE flat-out Zings-Man-Zings! on this old Vaio. Atheros Ath5k grabbed it and will not let go. By far the fastest and finest Puppy for this machine. Everything works - Tor, Bleachbit, peebees new Chromium,(Thanks peebee!). VLC playing anything and everything...Thanks 01micko and all con...

Right On, Nooby! Grow Yer Own Forum! I'm joining, and all my people, too. Your posts are always kind and thoughtful, and that's where we want to be. Can there be topics and questions like: - Does God have a girlfriend? - Is an atheist a person with no invisible means of support? - What is that space...

tempestuous, Your kernel insight is spot-on! 529 connected immediately on this old Sony machine! Ten-thousand thank you's!

tempestuous, performed your instructions for address checking and MAC filtering, it's the correct address. Turned MAC filtering off. Totally open wi-fi network and still unable to connect with Puppy. :( Mint 10 is installed on this machine and it connects immediately. Began wondering if it's a Mint ...

tempestuous, USA current location; wi-fi router purchased USA - no encryption, MAC address restricted. Thanks again,

tempestuous, completed procedure, ran network wizard, unable to connect. power cycled router, ran network wizard - still unable to connect. Attached is the dmesg file - thanks again for your help

tempestuous, hope this is done correctly, I'm on the steep side of the linux learning curve thanks again

tempestuous, thanks for your persistence. Ran the rfkill list, hope I'm doing this correctly.
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performed commands according to your instructions. Still unable to connect. Any other suggestions? Thanks again

tempestuous, of course you're right on - dramatic change of heart - but the solution for this vexation was to simply wire directly into the router. So I wrote that the issue was resolved. And it was - for me. But your reply has turned me around. I'm new to Linux and forums in general and wasn't thin...

ISSUE RESOLVED - tempestous and cthisbear, thank you for your help with the ath5k issue. I have no more time for Puppy on this sony machine - thanks again for attempting.

temptuous, installed rfkill-upgrade, rebooted, made sure wireless switch on, attempted connection and received pop-up unknown error 132. (see attached :? ). Also, this machine had Vista installed before Mint 10, if that makes any diference. Thanks again for your help :) , I really want to solve this...

E-Machines laptop connected effortlessly. Easy business with Puppy 528. Still no connection with Atheros 5001 in the Sony VAIO machine. May have to get another machine. Unless anyone knows of a way to replace the Atheros with an alternative. Thanks again. wm

Bigpup, thanks for your tutorial. :) Followed all steps, Puppy still "unable to detect wireless network". Wondering if there's a problem with our home wi-fi router. It's set-up to restrict MAC addresses. The Mint 10 hooks up right away to the home wi-fi and all the public wi-fi's in my are...

Hi, Thanks for viewing. Tried Wary 5.1.4.1 - unable to connect.
Cielo_420_base_ 01 - unable to connect.
Simplicity Obsidian 117 - unable to connect.
Hoping there's a solution. Any other puplets that might work? Thanks again.

Chris, Thank you for the reminder to include the specs - Sony VAIO VGN-N325E?W - P T2080 1.73GHz - Mobile Intel 943 GML Express- 1.0 GB DDR2 SDRAM - 533.0MHz - 120.0 GB Serial ATA-150-5400.0rpm - Intel GMA 950 Graphics 224MB Hope that's enough, more if needed. Okay, this post is coming from an etho ...

Greetings and Thanks To All for Puppy! :D I'm new to Linux, recently acquired Sony Vaio VGN-N325E with Mint 10 and it hooks up fine to the wireless that has a restricted MAC setting. But we LOVE OUR PUPPY LINUX! Especially the New 5.2.8. Mint's cool, but not as cool as Puppy on older machines. BUT -...