jonyo
nope no use at all - sorry
but thanks for coming back, I thought you'd abandoned me
I think Hairy Will is helping me best so far, thanks

Hairy Will I believe there may be a clue here When I check RutilT there is a different MAC address and channel to the one which pops up in console after entering the line 'dhcpcd -d ra0' Is this any help & where is the false information coming from? If I go through all your instructions again I ...

Hi Hairy Will Thanks for the instructions It almost fits the bill 1) after a couple of attempts at a console - it worked!! Yey, wifi 2) after rebooting its gone again - Its forgotten/not saved/changed my settings/what have you ??? 3) Do you have similar clear instructions for making a working config...

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Can someone reading this contact rarsa or tempestuous
I found a thread; advanced topics/hardware/network/wifi,
and either of them seem to know this stuff & can probably help me here
moderators, can this be done?
Or should I start a new thread there?
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Hi HairyWill Interesting it is, when someone says,"All you've got to do is" in relation to a problem I cannot resolve, for lack of understanding, and then UN specify the 'what you've got to do'! It is my belief that this puzzle can be solved when someone with the understanding, [you hint a...

jonyo concur on your 1st para' I think the drivers are ok I get one green screen on blinky, but no aerial I have tried deleting the whole shebang from H/D and trying again with dhcp, but it won't have it. I can see my connection mac address, not connected but no essid shows up because my AP has it i...

BigPilot Sorry NO To go back over my post from 1st base 1) I have an old P!!! PC with VIA chipset with an asus PCI wifi card that uses RT2500 drivers (runs win98se, normally, with wifi) 2) I have a working puppy liveCD v2.14 3) On my first install? (live CD in RAM I believe) I got a desktop - no wif...

Jonyo I'd have thought it blindingly obvious to a blind man I have tried about 11 linux distros, some live cd, some install to H/D only, BUT where there is commonality between ALL distros is that I've NEVER got wifi to work. The best so far has been Knoppix, since it works with the most PCs I tried ...

A bit more info following another reboot Puppy Network Setup reports, Network configuration of ra0 successful configuration saved to file /etc/ra0mode this file is read at startup by/etc/rc.d/rc.network however I have no wifi 'aerial' icon & blinky reports 1.31Mb sent 0 recvd I looked in files i...

Jonyo I agree it sounds like a config problem, though I'm a semi-newb, having played with various distros my previous preference was knoppix v 4.0.2 I've ALWAYS had this wifi problem with all distros I had a BT usb wifi adapter which was supposed to have Atmel drivers but I never got it to go So I r...

Flash I tried everything you said previous to posting My first save shutdown was the one which created the pup save 2fs or whatever which I did on hdb1 (my windoze D: drive) Basic question - where is my ra0 configuration SUPPOSED to be saved Having now messed about with iwconfig I haven't got any ES...

Hi I have one of these - same bios ,same chipset Mine is working with puppy 2.14 I had a similar problem some time ago in win98se it was either a dma problem or a mbr problem have you altered anything or does it run ok in windoze? final thought, does it have a compressed drive? I don't think the bio...

Yes, but then I have to select 'connect to the Internet by network'
which puts me back in network wizard, which shows ra0 & eth1
I have tried setting IP adresses and AP gateway, but still no go

Hmmm
Just as I suspected - I have the same problem, but no solution
see my thread
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16973
Thanks

It Rocks I've similarly just got wifi working. Once WutilT reported I had successfully logged on I fired up a browser and in tools selected 'search the web (Google) If you are successfully logged on google page will show, otherwise you get a timeout error Also try firing up Gaim and see if you can s...

Ha Ha Ha I've been following this thread all the way through, and apart from Jam's comment about 'older slow machines' you all seem to have flyers. My old P3/600Mhz with wifi takes just over 2 1/2 minutes to load to desktop Puppy 2.14 live CD I'd love a PC I can just turn on & it works, but unfo...

Is it me, or is this happening to anyone else? I just installed puppy v2.14 on an old PC (P3/600 VIA chipset) I've got an ASUS wifi PCI card that uses RT2500 drivers on linux My problem is radio is my only link to the web, and there are 4 AP's in close proximity I went through the network setup usin...