Hi there, you have my sympathy as i had a lot of trouble initially getting wireless to work on my IBM T40P, which has an Atheros 5211 chipset, then out of the blue one day it worked, using just the ath_pci driver!mpierrat25 wrote: 1) WiFi (Atheros) : Does not works with ath5pci or ath-pci
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I'm still puzzled as to what happened, because all i did was run a puplet CD i hadn't tried before, (Flexxxpup 7 Funnynight, based on Puppy 4.2), without modifying any config files or using ndiswrapper or anything at all....i did have to repeat my profile input (WPA) and save it once more, then Voila!, Puppy found the connection and proceeded to get DHCP without a problem. It may be worth repeating the procedure a few times in your case too, i don't know.
If the ath_5k driver module loads on your system, perhaps try unloading/blacklisting it in favour of ath_pci. I know you write here that ath_pci doesn't work but it didn't on mine for months either, for some reason....that might sound odd but it's true I've experimented with live CDs for puplets from Puppy 2... -> to 4.2 without wireless connection success until it just worked recently....of course, after the first lucky break, i tried several other random CDs again (mostly 4.1 - 4.2 derivatives) and they mysteriously worked too. It honestly has me stumped what's been going on here but i'm happy as a pig in mud now
Something i remember noticing while snooping through the Puppy's file-system is a recent version of mad-wifi, so i'm thinking that perhaps its inclusion is what's made the difference.
If you're still having no joy, i suggest you try the forum threads in Advanced Topics > Hardware > Networking > Wireless, where there's plenty of info and possibly something that applies to your situation...i wish you success with this.