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[carenrose]

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. 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]

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

[carenrose]

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


Edit: by the way, Dell TrueMobile 1150 Series

[Karl Godt]

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]

just googling around found this:

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

HTH

[carenrose]

[ally]

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

[rjbrewer]

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

[carenrose]

No such luck. Still the same problems.

[linuxcbon]

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

[carenrose]

[linuxcbon]

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

[carenrose]

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]

[carenrose]

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.

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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!

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