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p310don · Posted: Mon 26 Aug 2013, 21:06 Post subject:

Hi there,

I have an issue with wireless support for my PC. It has Lupu 5.20 installed on it. The RTL8191SE wireless wasn't seen by Puppy at all, so I installed the PET from page two of this thread r8192se_pci-k2.6.33.2.pet It is now seen by the OS, but it won't "wake up". It just gives me an error when I try to connect to the internet with it.

I tried also using Carolina and Precise 5.71 neither of these puppies had any success with the wifi on my PC. These two more modern puppies just tell me wlan is down.

I have a temp fix of using a usb wifi which works (slowly), but it'd be nicer to use the onboard wifi.

Any help?

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5472 Location: Australia

What's your computer? A laptop? There might be a wifi on/off switch involved, and it might be an "rfkill" issue.
To complicate matters, the standard release of Puppy 5.2.x (Lupu) did not enable the rfkill driver, so please first install my "rfkill-upgrade" dotpet from earlier in this thread -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=452093#452093
Then reboot, and run this command -

p310don · Posted: Tue 27 Aug 2013, 22:17 Post subject:

My PC is one like this.

http://au.shuttle.com/products/productsDetail?productId=1675

Not this model though, will have to figure that out when I get home. No switch is involved.

Will try the RFKILL update and see what happens.

Questioning the effectiveness however, as it also didn't work in later puppies. But will try tonight and report back. Thanks

peebee · Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 01:42 Post subject:

p310don · Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 08:58 Post subject:

rfkill list gives me this response

Soft Blocked: No
Hard Blocked: Yes

There is no hardware switch on this machine. Nothing obvious in BIOS. Will do more research.

p310don · Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 09:24 Post subject:

Could this be part of the problem?

Note the bus and description are both x

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5472 Location: Australia

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5472 Location: Australia

I see you're using the "Simple Network Wizard" - which I distrust.
You should be using the full Network Wizard.

p310don · Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 09:39 Post subject:

Already tried the BIOS reset. Looked all over the machine for a switch that doesn't exist.

Using the full network wizard gives me this error screen

p310don · Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 09:45 Post subject:

The solution might be in the bios update from 2011

p310don · Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 10:20 Post subject:

MY problem = SOLVED

Bit of a stuff around.

Installed the driver from this thread, recognised wifi module
Had to update BIOS, found out model and downloaded .exe file. Useless to me in my puppy only machine.

Booted into Hiren's boot cd mini xp. loaded the bios update. (that was a screw around, because I saved the file on my /mnt/home ext3 partition, which xp didn't see. lucky hiren's comes with ext software) Update spat out errors. Tried again, more errors. Cracked the shits, rebooted puppy, and it works.

Nice. Thanks for your help and suggestions Smile

smshah26 · Joined: 23 Sep 2013 Posts: 1

Dear

i installed ubunto but it does not detect my wirless internet divice wimax please help me

cy3a · Joined: 15 Sep 2012 Posts: 8

Does driver for hp1018 foo2zjs work with puppy 5.7.1?

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5472 Location: Australia

Accidental post.

Pelo · Last edited by Pelo on Sat 22 Aug 2015, 00:19; edited 2 times in total

Puppy 5.2.8 no sound no wireless : i intalled lib firmware and modules switching the kernel to 3.0.25