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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?

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/viewto ... 093#452093
Then reboot, and run this command - Please report the result.

My PC is one like this.

http://au.shuttle.com/products/products ... uctId=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

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/viewto ... &start=126

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.

Could this be part of the problem?

Note the bus and description are both x

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.

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

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

The solution might be in the bios update from 2011

1. Support wireless LAN always On

http://au.shuttle.com/news/productsDown ... uctId=1461

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

Dear

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

Does driver for hp1018 foo2zjs work with puppy 5.7.1?

Accidental post.

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

June 2014
I just compiled and uploaded the Realtek 8188eu USB wifi driver -
http://www.smokey01.com/tempestuous/818 ... 6.33.2.pet

Known supported wifi dongles:
TP-Link TL-WN723N v3
TP-Link TL-WN725N v2

JUNE 2014
Here is the dm9601 USB-LAN driver, updated to include 8 new device ID's, which I have taken from the latest version of the driver from recent 3.x kernels.

tempestuous wrote:There's a range of Creative Labs/E-MU sound cards supported by the snd-emu10k1 ALSA driver already in Puppy,
but several of these cards require firmware as well. I'm uncertain about all the models involved, but certainly the well-known E-MU 0404 PCI card requires this firmware.

Note: the E-MU 0404 USB is a completely different animal, which uses the generic snd-usb-audio ALSA driver.

After installing this dotpet, reboot. Then run the ALSA Wizard.

Hi all, this is my first post on the forum. Looks like I have a problem configuring Creative sound card. After initial setup, Retrovol tray icon and menu entry both disappeared. I'm new to Linux but i guess it's related to this script (/root/startup):

#!/bin/sh

#exec retrovol -hide ${BGOPT} #BGOPT is exported from /usr/sbin/delayedrun.

#retrovol 0.10, -bg option no longer needed...
exec retrovol -hide

Experienced advice would be much appreciated. Cheers!

Edit: Excuse me for posting in this topic but I couldn't find much in other (ancient) threads. My PC runs Puppy Precise 5.7.1. (Kernel 3.9.11, PAE, i686), Frugal install on HDD.

Edit 2: Disabling onboard sound within BIOS solved my problem.

RTL8192CU driver for wireless dongle
You can easily improve wireless connection of your laptop with a dongle for a few pennies, or dollars (or 10 euros).
rcrsn51 has compiled drivers for you, kernel 2.6.33.2 here, click please
How-to video by Pelo, cliquer SVP

tempestuous wrote:Here is the USB 3.0 Linux driver, which was not enabled in the standard Puppy 5.1.x kernel.
The driver is called xhci
I have also included the upgraded isp1760 USB driver, which is apparently USB 3.0 compatible, though very few Puppy users will ever use this driver because the relevant interface is found on embedded devices.
After installing this dotpet, reboot, and the xhci driver should automatically load for any compatible interface detected at boot up.

Got it and it worked on install of my AMD64 machine running Tahr 64 but after the first reboot it didn't work. If I modinfro it doesn't appear. *Also it seems to have installed in an older Linux versions subdirectory. dmsg reports finding the PCI card fine.

dmsg starts signaling errors after finding the hardware.
xhci_hcd 0000:01:00.0: Timeout while waiting for setup address command
xhci_hcd 0000:01:00.0: Stopped the command ring failed, maybe the host is dead

and these...
Abort command ring failed
HC died; cleaning up
Timeout while waiting for setup address command
Abort the command ring, but the xHCI is dead

Should I be trying to add this to the drivers that Puppy installs? *And what is the proper way to do that? Or is this a 32 versus 64 bit problem? Any help super most appreciated.