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p310don
Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 1502 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Mon 26 Aug 2013, 21:06 Post subject:
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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?
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tempestuous
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5472 Location: Australia
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Posted: Tue 27 Aug 2013, 19:50 Post subject:
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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 -
Please report the result.
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p310don
Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 1502 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Tue 27 Aug 2013, 22:17 Post subject:
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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
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peebee

Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 4391 Location: Worcestershire, UK
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Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 01:42 Post subject:
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tempestuous wrote: | and it might be an "rfkill" issue. |
Precise 5.7.1 (pae version) does have an rfkill problem - see
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87712&start=126
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p310don
Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 1502 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 08:58 Post subject:
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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.
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p310don
Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 1502 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 09:24 Post subject:
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Could this be part of the problem?
Note the bus and description are both x
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tempestuous
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5472 Location: Australia
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Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 09:24 Post subject:
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p310don wrote: | Hard Blocked: Yes |
That means that either there's a physical wifi switch ... or the Linux operating system thinks there's a physical switch.
In the latter case, you need to do a full bios reset.
You should also consider upgrading to the latest bios version, but I don't see an upgraded bios on Shuttle's website at this stage for your model.
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tempestuous
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5472 Location: Australia
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Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 09:28 Post subject:
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I see you're using the "Simple Network Wizard" - which I distrust.
You should be using the full Network Wizard.
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p310don
Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 1502 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 09:39 Post subject:
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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
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p310don
Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 1502 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 09:45 Post subject:
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The solution might be in the bios update from 2011
Quote: | 1. Support wireless LAN always On |
http://au.shuttle.com/news/productsDownload?productId=1461
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p310don
Joined: 19 May 2009 Posts: 1502 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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Posted: Wed 28 Aug 2013, 10:20 Post subject:
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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
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smshah26
Joined: 23 Sep 2013 Posts: 1
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Posted: Mon 23 Sep 2013, 10:53 Post subject:
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Dear
i installed ubunto but it does not detect my wirless internet divice wimax please help me
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cy3a
Joined: 15 Sep 2012 Posts: 8
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Posted: Tue 24 Sep 2013, 05:04 Post subject:
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Does driver for hp1018 foo2zjs work with puppy 5.7.1?
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tempestuous
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5472 Location: Australia
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Posted: Wed 01 Jan 2014, 03:07 Post subject:
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Accidental post.
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Pelo
Joined: 10 Sep 2011 Posts: 12591 Location: Mer méditerrannée (1 kms°)
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Posted: Mon 26 May 2014, 09:20 Post subject:
Wireless connected Medion P7624 Subject description: kernel switched to 3.0.25 |
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Puppy 5.2.8 no sound no wireless : i intalled lib firmware and modules switching the kernel to 3.0.25
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