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GeoffS
Joined: 24 Feb 2006
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Location: Australia
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 Posted: Tue 16 Jan 2007, 06:42 Post subject:
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A couple of questions:-
Are you still using ndiswrapper or are you relying on 2.13 having the driver built in?
Is your NIC a PCI card or are you using a PCMCIA card in a laptop?
We'll keep thinking in the meantime 
Geoff
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superscienceguy
Joined: 04 Jan 2007
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Location: Arkansas
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| GeoffS wrote: | A couple of questions:-
Are you still using ndiswrapper or are you relying on 2.13 having the driver built in? |
I have tried both. I do not know if the driver is built in, I haven't been able to find it. I have the XP driver, so I'd say I'm still using ndiswrapper. I think. I'm learning a lot, but I still get confused and lost.
| GeoffS wrote: | | Is your NIC a PCI card or are you using a PCMCIA card in a laptop?[Geoff |
My wireless NIC is a PCMCIA card in a laptop. Does that make a difference?
I thank everyone for their help on this problem that is now two pages long!
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jonyo
Joined: 28 Dec 2006
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if willing to use & buy a usb dongle (ebay ~ 20-30 bucks), quite sure I can get you goin wifi quick. Works A-1 for me so far on all computers I've tried (~ 5) with ver 2.12 & just worked out with ver 2.13. All running live cd. 
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krumpli
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
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Location: Florida USA
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superscienceguy,
What mfgr pcmcia card do you have? Do you know what type of driver?
I just finished a rather easy & successful pcmcia card install a few days ago.
[/url]http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=14182[url]
My research beforehand led me to use Asus wl-107g pcmcia. It has ralink 2500 driver. This has a native Linux driver and is in Puppy 2.13. Purchased mine from NewEgg for 30.00. I read reviews at NewEgg that indicated the pcmcia card worked in other Linux distros.
Paul M
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tempestuous
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
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Location: Australia
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superscienceguy,
According to this http://www.xterasys.com/faq.htm
a device having FCC ID of M4Y-XG-300 contains the Intersil Frisbee chipset. If true, there is a native Linux driver suitable: prism54, and Puppy contains this ... but the firmware is missing. Get the firmware here http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Wifi/wifi-driver-firmware/prism54-fullmac-extras.pup
Install the dotpup, reboot, and run "lsmod" to see if Puppy has automatically loaded the prism54 module. If not, load it manually -
modprobe prism54
If there are no errors, you can now use the Network Wizard to connect to your wifi access point.
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superscienceguy
Joined: 04 Jan 2007
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Location: Arkansas
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Posted: Sun 21 Jan 2007, 20:07 Post subject:
That fixed it.
Subject description: It needed a firmware update |
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That was it! It needed that firmware update, after I installed that update, restarted, and ran network setup, choose the loaded the prism54 driver, and did a scan, it was done.
Thanks SO much!
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tempestuous
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Just to clarify, that firmware is not an "update". It's permanently saved in /lib/firmware
and is loaded into your wifi device's onboard RAM each time the prism54 driver loads.
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