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Posted: **Wed 16 Aug 2006, 10:56**

I downloaded the file from here:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Wifi/drivers- ... escape.pup

I am currently using Puppy 2.02

Posted: **Wed 16 Aug 2006, 13:15**

the Puppy2-drivers are for 2.00/2.01 only.
I renamed the folder now correspondingly.
Mark

Posted: **Wed 16 Aug 2006, 16:32**

What other issues were you having with 2.02? If there are good reasons to avoid 2.02 for now and just use 2.01r2, I would be interested in hearing about them!

I found at the time WAG didn't work. I think now that has been corrected with a patch. Also, could not get devx_202.sfs to mount. Not sure where that stands. And no .pup for my zd1211b. I think kirk has one now, but no WPA supplicant for 2.02 yet. Thinking maybe wait for a 2.03. For now 2.01r2 seems OK for me.
Don

Posted: **Thu 17 Aug 2006, 01:04**

wpa_supplicant should work fine in Puppy 2.02.

Posted: **Sun 20 Aug 2006, 02:48**

I have just taken a radical approach to this module-compatibility problem. I have remastered Puppy 2.02 with the kernel and modules taken from Puppy 2.0/2.01. I have called this customised version "puppy-2.02-regression".
It's at Mark's site here http://htb65.de/puppylinux/puppy-releas ... ession.iso
Now these wifi drivers are usable again.

Posted: **Sun 27 Aug 2006, 21:09**

Hi everybody, I;ve got an Atheros chipset D-link DWL-G630 wireless pcmcia card and ive got the driver and all that crap running by using the ndiswrapper but i have no friggin clue how to connect to my AP which is a matching D-link wireless router. I've done everything I know how to do but I just can't get it to connect to the AP.

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Posted: **Tue 05 Sep 2006, 23:12**

Hey guys I fixed it. What I think we should do is create a more user friendly ndiswrapper setup process and just do huge amount of research gathering every kind of install script and other driver information for wifi pcmcia cards usb wifi cards and so forth then we could make A giant database for those drivers and get it loaded into the next version of puppy.

Posted: **Wed 06 Sep 2006, 00:41**

Runemaster, I think a streamlined ndiswrapper installer has merit, especially for newbies ... but I encourage you to start a new thread about it. And wasn't wifi-beta2 supposed to achieve this? http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Wifi/wifi-1.0.4-beta-2.pup

I created this forum thread to announce the availabiltiy (and troubleshoot) Linux wifi drivers. This is a distinctly different approach to ndiswrapper.
People who use Linux wifi drivers expect to spend some effort ... there is no installer-gui and it will never be easy, since most of these drivers are independently developed outside the mainstream kernel.

Posted: **Thu 07 Sep 2006, 01:01**

Sep 7 2006. I updated the following:
- aircrack-ng to version 0.6.1, which now supports the linux-wlan-ng (Prism2 USB) driver.
- linux-wlan-ng driver patched to support packet injection with aircrack.
- madwifi to version 0.9.2
- Zydas zd1211 (a & b variants) to version r83

Posted: **Thu 14 Sep 2006, 04:14**

Are these packages going to be updated for pup 2.10, or should I wait for another version?

Posted: **Thu 14 Sep 2006, 22:30**

tempestuous,

I have a motorola wireless router WR850GP and a motorola wireless pci card
WN825GP

Motorola has Linux drivers on their site
Should I use their's or yours?
http://www.motorola.com/softmodem/driver.htm
I used the wifi-1.0.4-beta-2.pup and it lit up my card and recognized it
Now i have to configure that conf file to get it to commuinicate with my router which sends out DHCP

Posted: **Thu 14 Sep 2006, 23:19**

violetdream,
No, sorry, I won't be updating these drivers. As I mentioned in an earlier post on July 29 in this thread, they remain useful as a reference for people who compile their own drives in the future. By unzipping these dotpups, you can often find extra firmware files and utilities not included in the main driver source code.

rafa1215
Your wireless router, of course, requires no driver at all.
The Motorola WN825GP PCI card has a Broadcom chipset, so the bcm43xx-softmac driver is the one of choice.

wifi-1.0.4-beta-2.pup is a package of Windows drivers for use with ndiswrapper, so is unrelated to my Linux driver packages.
There are many other threads on this forum regarding ndiswrapper.

The download link you provided is for (old) Motorola SM56 soft modem drivers, nothing to do with wifi at all.

Posted: **Fri 15 Sep 2006, 00:07**

Thanks for clearing that up

tempestuous wrote:violetdream,
No, sorry, I won't be updating these drivers. As I mentioned in an earlier post on July 29 in this thread, they remain useful as a reference for people who compile their own drives in the future. By unzipping these dotpups, you can often find extra firmware files and utilities not included in the main driver source code.

rafa1215
Your wireless router, of course, requires no driver at all.
The Motorola WN825GP PCI card has a Broadcom chipset, so the bcm43xx-softmac driver is the one of choice.

wifi-1.0.4-beta-2.pup is a package of Windows drivers for use with ndiswrapper, so is unrelated to my Linux driver packages.
There are many other threads on this forum regarding ndiswrapper.

The download link you provided is for (old) Motorola SM56 soft modem drivers, nothing to do with wifi at all.

Posted: **Fri 15 Sep 2006, 04:27**

tempestuous wrote:violetdream,
No, sorry, I won't be updating these drivers. As I mentioned in an earlier post on July 29 in this thread, they remain useful as a reference for people who compile their own drives in the future. By unzipping these dotpups, you can often find extra firmware files and utilities not included in the main driver source code.

I'm not sure where your original post stating this is, but I'm disapointed at your choice. Of course, it is up to you whether you choose to maintain these drivers or not and I appreciate all you've done so far, but many Puppy users are beginners and are quite intimidated by compiling their own things. I'm not quite what you would call a beginner but even I couldn't figure out how to get things to compile - I'm just not a long term linux user. I know a solution would be to use ndiswrapper, but often the range is pathetic compared to the native drivers. I'm just disapointed because I would like to update puppy, but I'm held back because of wireless drivers unavailable for the most current versions (2.10 now). Would anyone else be willing to step up and take tempestuous's place? It would be a great service to all the Puppy users who are still beginners and cannot compile on their own (or don't have a good enough computer to consider compiling on).

Posted: **Tue 19 Sep 2006, 02:22**

Two recent synergies may make it easier for wifi drivers to be updated in the future:
- the new T2 development system
- several wifi drivers are being merged into the mainstream Linux kernel from version 2.6.18
See http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=69635

violetdream, if MADWiFi is what you want, it was included in the package list for Puppy 2.10alpha http://www.puppyos.net/news/comments.ph ... 827-093218
Barry has explained that this means the MADWiFi driver will be in the next Puppy release AFTER 2.10.

Posted: **Sun 24 Sep 2006, 12:02**

If/when additional wifi drivers become available in future Puppy releases, I will package the necessary firmware and hotplug "extras".
For the current release (2.10) 5 such packages are needed now, so I thought I would start the ball rolling by packaging these: Atmel, HostAP, IPW2100, IPW2200, Prism54.
These dotpups are at Mark's site http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Wifi/wifi-driver-firmware/

Posted: **Mon 23 Oct 2006, 16:48**

tempestuous wrote:Barry has explained that this means the MADWiFi driver will be in the next Puppy release AFTER 2.10.

I do not see MADWiFi in 2.11

Did it get delayed or is it somewhere I am not looking, please?

Posted: **Mon 23 Oct 2006, 19:42**

edoc wrote:
tempestuous wrote:Barry has explained that this means the MADWiFi driver will be in the next Puppy release AFTER 2.10.
I do not see MADWiFi in 2.11
Did it get delayed or is it somewhere I am not looking, please?

OK, found MADWiFi. Downloaded and installed.

Per the instructions I opened Console (rxvt), entered the first code and
received the following result.

Code: Select all

sh-3.00# modprobe ath_pci
WARNING: Error inserting ath_hal (/lib/modules/2.6.16.7/net/wireless/madwifi/ath_hal.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting wlan (/lib/modules/2.6.16.7/net/wireless/madwifi/wlan.ko): Invalid module format
WARNING: Error inserting ath_rate_sample (/lib/modules/2.6.16.7/net/wireless/madwifi/ath_rate_sample.ko): Invalid module format
FATAL: Error inserting ath_pci (/lib/modules/2.6.16.7/net/wireless/madwifi/ath_pci.ko): Invalid module format
sh-3.00#

It breaks eth0. I had to issue "ifconfig eth0 up" and then walk through
Setup-Ethernet/network Wizard to restore a wired connection until I
am able to get wireless working again.

This did not happen in prior versions of MADWiFi.

Posted: **Fri 27 Oct 2006, 04:08**

edoc wrote:I do not see MADWiFi in 2.11

This was Barry's intention, at the same time as Puppy moves to the new 2.6.18.x kernel, but 2.11 became an "intermediate" release.
Wifi drivers (and some others) for Puppy 2.12 have been announced on the developer forum http://www.puppyos.net/news/comments.ph ... 019-222209

Posted: **Sun 29 Oct 2006, 22:16**

tempestuous wrote:
edoc wrote:I do not see MADWiFi in 2.11
This was Barry's intention, at the same time as Puppy moves to the new 2.6.18.x kernel, but 2.11 became an "intermediate" release.
Wifi drivers (and some others) for Puppy 2.12 have been announced on the developer forum http://www.puppyos.net/news/comments.ph ... 019-222209

Thanks! I see the post. Is the failure to compile the 'linux-wlan-ng' package a temporary
problem or does it mean that it will not be included in 2.12?

Wireless modules compiled
Thursday, October 19, 2006, 10:22 PM
I've compiled more modules for the 2.6.18.1 kernel. This time it is wireless modules.

I was unable to compile the 'linux-wlan-ng' package.
Compiled the Texas Instruments 'acx100' driver okay.
Compiled the Admtek 'adm8211' driver.
Compiled the Atmel 'at76_usb' driver, for the at76c503a chip.
Compiled the Madwifi drivers, for the Atheros chips.
Compiled the Ralink 'rt2400', 'rt2500', 'rt2570' and 'rt61' drivers.
Compiled the Zydas 'zd1211' driver.

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