How to get the Intel Centrino wifi chipset to work?
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Brian C
How to get the Intel Centrino wifi chipset to work?
I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop, and it has the Intel Centrino wifi chipset. I want to get wifi to work with Puppy, but tie wifi configuration software doesn't do it. I've heard of a wifi-beta program that might. Where can I get that? Or, where can I get the ndiswrapper packages for my chipset?
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tempestuous
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Puppy already contains ndiswrapper, but if you have a genuine "Centrino" wifi adaptor with the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 chipset then a better solution for you is the ipw2200 driver here -
http://mymirrors.homelinux.org/puppy/wireless/
http://mymirrors.homelinux.org/puppy/wireless/
I've tried several times to get the Intel Pro 2200 working on Puppy. I've also tried ndiswrapper.tempestuous wrote:Puppy already contains ndiswrapper, but if you have a genuine "Centrino" wifi adaptor with the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 chipset then a better solution for you is the ipw2200 driver here -
http://mymirrors.homelinux.org/puppy/wireless/
I'm a newbie so the instructions seem really long and then there have always been error messages (I've tried five times).
If I can get Puppy to work with wireless it will be the main Linux OS on my Sony Vaio. I've been using Ubuntu but just prefer Puppy's no nonensense fast feel.
Keep up the good work. Maybe in Puppy 2 I'll have wireless!
Dafydd
Like the initial poster of this thread, I also have an Inspiron 6000, and I just got 2.02 seamonkey to boot from my SanDisk 512M USB key.
Now that I have a bootable system, I have the same goal as the original poster: I want to enable my Inspiron 6000's built-in Intel 2915 wfi adapter. It looks like all the previous 2200/2915 instructions in this forum are for Puppy 1.x releases, which would imply that if I want 2.02 wireless to work, I'll have to put together a development toolchain and build ipw2200 from scratch, which looks like a lot of work.
Before starting down that path, I'm wondering: have I overlooked some repository of drivers somewhere? Has someone else already put together a 2200/2915 tarball?
p.s. To everyone who's made puppy what it is today, I say: great job! So much functionality in such a tiny package!
Now that I have a bootable system, I have the same goal as the original poster: I want to enable my Inspiron 6000's built-in Intel 2915 wfi adapter. It looks like all the previous 2200/2915 instructions in this forum are for Puppy 1.x releases, which would imply that if I want 2.02 wireless to work, I'll have to put together a development toolchain and build ipw2200 from scratch, which looks like a lot of work.
Before starting down that path, I'm wondering: have I overlooked some repository of drivers somewhere? Has someone else already put together a 2200/2915 tarball?
p.s. To everyone who's made puppy what it is today, I say: great job! So much functionality in such a tiny package!
This might help:
http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=9595
If, like myself, you don't know what you're doing, you might benefit from some communication that went on in the backround between myself and the person who put the package together. Just ask.
http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=9595
If, like myself, you don't know what you're doing, you might benefit from some communication that went on in the backround between myself and the person who put the package together. Just ask.