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[sciencegeek]

Installed network-wiz-update-Oct5.pet, no difference from previously posted results. Simplest approach may be to buy device with different chipset (rt73?) until one works, or use XP for internet until next release. Too bad, I like puppy.

thanks for your time

[tempestuous]

Here is the Atheros (formerly Attansic) atl2 ethernet driver compatible with the ASUS Eee 700-series and 900 / 904HD / 1000HD / 1000HA
plus some recent motherboards.
The source code was obtained from http://people.redhat.com/csnook/atl2/

[tempestuous]

Here is the driver for the webcam in the ASUS Eee.

[tempestuous]

Here is the asus_acpi module, the patched version which supports the ASUS Eee notebook.
It enables certain hotkeys on the keyboard.

[tony]

Hi tempestuous,

While we are on the subject of extras for puppy 3.00. What do we need to get a joystick working ?

Looking through the beginners help section, someone (including me) asks for joystick support about every three months without any reply.

With your experience of drivers I thought you would be a good person to ask.

Regards Tony.

[ttuuxxx]

[tony]

Hi tempestuous,

Thanks for the rapid response.

I had hoped it could be done through xorg. This method seems to require that you rebuild the kernel.

I particularly like the last line:-

After this, reboot, load any modules you didn't compile straight into the kernel, and everything should work. If it doesn't, well, something went wrong.

Regards. Tony

[tempestuous]

Regarding joysticks, don't assume that extra drivers are needed. I think that joysticks are supported by standard kernel modules already contained in Puppy.
The drivers at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~vojtech/joystick/ are for the old 2.4 kernels.

There are many questions posted on this forum which relate to Linux in general, so there's no need for Puppy-specific instructions.
Just use Google. It took me 10 seconds on Google to find these HOWTOs -

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Joystick_Setup
this relates to joysticks which connect via a sound card.

http://www.perturb.org/display/entry/513/
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html
these relate to joysticks which connect via USB.

[tempestuous]

Here is the Atheros (formerly Attansic) L1 Gigabit Ethernet driver.
The source code is from http://atl1.sourceforge.net/
I saw on the web that this will support the Atheros AR8021 chipset, but I can't confirm this.
After installing the dotpet, do this -

[tempestuous]

Here is the "nozomi" driver for certain models of GlobeTrotter GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA wireless modems.
Refer to the compatibility list here http://www.pharscape.org/

This package installs the necessary device nodes; /dev/noz...

After installing this dotpet, load the module

[rild]

[tempestuous]

Here is the sis190 ethernet driver, modified to support recent versions of the SiS191 chipset which have a different PCI-ID number than earlier versions.
More information about this modification is here -
http://www.howtoforge.com/creating-the-sis191-gigabit-ethernet-driver-on-linux-2.6

[tempestuous]

Here is the "Poldhu" driver for Swallow 1148 wifi cards such as the 3COM 3CRWE62092A X-Jack.
The original version of the Poldhu driver from
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bvermeul/swallow/
is far too old to compile under a modern kernel, but the source code has been updated here
http://sourceforge.net/projects/poldhu

After installing the dotpet, load the new driver -

[tempestuous]

ASUS Eee models 901, 1000, and 1000H
have an upgraded N-mode wifi device: Ralink RT2860
Here is the vendor-supplied driver, source code obtained from
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html
After installing the dotpet package, load the driver -

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