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carenrose · Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 34

I have a Dell TrueMobile wifi adapter pcmcia card thing. (I'm using it right now so I can't yet pull it out and tell you anything more.)

It works, well, sometimes.

It has the same problems in 431 and in Wary. Most of the time, it apparently cannot scan for wireless networks (or connect to any.) Xautoconnect will give the message "interface does not support scanning." It requires removing and reinserting the card to work properly (sometimes many, many times, checking to see if it works each time. Sometimes it works right away, sometimes I give up and try restarting.) When it works, it works really pretty well! Can pick up networks my phone or my old laptop couldn't.

Sometimes, and this is the big issue, when reinserting the card, it crashes. Everything. As in, holding down the power button to get it to do anything. Sad

No chance to find out any info there.

Occasionally, this will happen when booting the OS ... (I've only ever had this happen in Wary, but possibly only because I use it more.)
Then I get potentially useful information. But then I don't know what to do with it. Here it is:

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 4617 Location: World_Hub

Hi Caren- to confirm, what do you get for this with the card plugged: lspci -nn | grep -i card

carenrose · Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 34

00:04.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller [1524:1410]

Edit: by the way, Dell TrueMobile 1150 Series

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 4005 Location: Kiel,Germany

You can do nothing with that kernel output . It shows function names of the kernel and the orinocco driver that are segfaulting . Kernel drivers are getting updated but many stay as they are. The only thing i could advise is to try to recompile the kernel of different versions , or it has to do with the glibc-2.10.x of wary(which is not so easy to compile and install without screwing things).

As a temporary fix i would add panic=15 to the kernel line after vga=normal in the grub menu.lst . panic=SECONDS would reboot the kernel in SECONDS instead of having it to hard poweroff . Have not seen any linux distro adding that parameter by default (!GAMBLERS!) .

ally · Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 944 Location: lincoln

just googling around found this:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=279944

HTH

Smile

carenrose · Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 34

ally · Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 944 Location: lincoln

as long as it's sorted it's all good

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rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: merriam, kansas

Truemobile 1150 only handles 802.11b.
Old Orinoco, No WPA?

carenrose · Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 34

No such luck. Still the same problems.

linuxcbon · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 874

Can you type "lsmod | grep yenta" and paste output ?

carenrose · Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 34

linuxcbon · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 874

Can you try the latest puppy like Racy 5.5 ? Maybe this has been solved there ?

carenrose · Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 34

Somehow I forgot this bit ...
When I told it to load hostqtip_cs over orinoco it decided not to . . So when I got it to load it didn't work with the card ... ni lights, not registering

Is there anything else I have ti do that maybe I'm missing? Other than just get the module to load

Edit: hostap not hostqtip

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: merriam, kansas

carenrose · Joined: 10 Dec 2012 Posts: 34

Ok. Did that. Did not work.

Tried ndiswrapper as well while I was there but "blahblahblah is an invalid driver" whatever.

If I could find another version of the windows driver it would be great, lol ... but every single one I find is the same version that doesn't work. Confused

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Edit:
I bought a newer, faster card that's not a dell (I don't like dell ...) and I'm using it right now! I also found an internal wlan card that I don't know if it will work or not ... going to try it! Very Happy

But yeah, never did get the Dell one to work right.