Getting tp-link tl-wn722n to work

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Try Precise or Tahrpup

#16 Post by mikeslr »

Hi rcracerguy,

I'm afraid that Semme was right, but perhaps too optimistic. I did a Wellminded Search on Atheros AR9271. Just plug a keyword or two into the search box at http://wellminded.net63.net/ --its a dedicated google search of all the post on this forum. It mostly produced negative results regarding anything involving ath9_htc.

An actual google search revealed that there have been Linux drivers and firmware for Atheros AR9271 since kernel 2.6.35. Which doesn't mean they immediately made their way into Puppies, nor every Puppy version.

The most promising report was that by puppyto that precise 5.7.1 recognized his adapter. http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 339#731339. He refers to it as the AR9271 in the post just above it.

I'd suggest you try either a Precise or a Tahr Pup. Precise 5.7.2 was, primarily a "bug fix" of 5.7.1. It is likely that the devs building Tahr Pups used Precise Pup as a model of what drivers and firmware to install. You'll find several version of precisepups and tahrpups in the Projects and Derivatives Sections. X preceeding a name means it uses Xfce as Window Manager; Lx means it uses Openbox with LxPanel. These are just different GUI's.

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#17 Post by rcrsn51 »

I own a TP-LINK TL-WN721N which also uses the ath9k_htc driver. It works OOTB for me in lupu3hd-5.2.8.7 with PeasyWiFi.
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#18 Post by Semme »

Grab the latest with your Windows box, save it to USB and reload 3HD.. Install.. Go through the motions..
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#19 Post by rcracerguy »

got it to work without it,but I have to set it up every time I reboot
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#20 Post by rcracerguy »

Thank you everyone for your help
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#21 Post by Semme »

Have you managed to have it save your settings?
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#22 Post by rcracerguy »

No
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#23 Post by rcrsn51 »

rcracerguy wrote:No
What connection program are you using? You should try a better one.
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#24 Post by rcracerguy »

the one that comes with it
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#25 Post by Semme »

Care to guess where we're going with this?
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#26 Post by bigpup »

rcracerguy wrote:the one that comes with it
Lucid Puppy-3HD has 3 different possible network connection programs.

We do not ask questions just to ask.

Specific details are important information.

You want help you need to help us.

We only know what you tell us. :shock:
rcracerguy wrote:I have no idea what I'm doing. Can anyone help.
This tells me there is a good chance you just did not do something correctly.
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
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#27 Post by cthisbear »

Questions take seconds.

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Respect lasts forever.

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#28 Post by rcracerguy »

Sorry I'll have to look. I have another problem now anyway. I wiped the hard drive to fully install it and I have nothing on the screen but the bottom line
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#29 Post by bigpup »

rcracerguy wrote:Sorry I'll have to look. I have another problem now anyway. I wiped the hard drive to fully install it and I have nothing on the screen but the bottom line
Again, not enough information.
Did you just delete stuff?
Did you delete partitions?
Did you wipe it with a cloth? (Sorry, after hearing Clinton say that, I just had to use it) :lol:

So, I will take a guess.
You deleted all the partitions on the hard drive.
You need to partition and format the hard drive.
The program Gparted can do that.

If you are only going to have Puppy on the hard drive.
Format the partition(s) in a Linux format.
Ext 3 or Ext 4.
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#30 Post by rcracerguy »

Yes I partititoned and formated the hardrive with gparted and I used ext3. I must have a video problem now. The computer did have xp on it before wipe. I also added the swap partition and made that linux swap. I don't know how to do grub.
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#31 Post by bigpup »

If nothing is on the hard drive there is nothing to run the computer.

If you boot using a Puppy live CD or USB flash drive, it should work.
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#32 Post by rcracerguy »

ok everything is on and working again. I used the sns setup for wifi. I know this is the wrong place for it,but how to you make it bootable after making the 2 partions? I tried the grub bootloader config,but when I put in /dev/hda1 it tells me it's not linux
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#33 Post by bigpup »

Good idea when you partitioned.
In Gparted flag the first partition boot.

There is a better boot loader to use for Puppy.
It has been tweaked for how Puppy works.

Grub4dos

Just get running with a version of Puppy.
Booting with a live Puppy CD or USB is a good way.

Run Grub4dos Bootloader config (Usually found in menu->system)
It will find all operating systems on the computer and make a boot menu.
Just use the default settings as you run it.
Install the boot loader to the MBR of the hard drive.

Reboot with no live Puppy CD or USB.
Should see boot menu with entries for the operating systems on the computer hard drive.

Not sure what exact version of Puppy you may be doing this from and what version of Grub4dos it will have.
If you want the latest version.
You can get it here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51697

Note:
Grub4dos config always makes a menu entry for Windows, even if it is not there.
You can edit the menu and remove the entry if you like.
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#34 Post by rcracerguy »

I was told if I type xwin it works and it did. Now how do I save that so I don't have to do it every time?
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#35 Post by rcracerguy »

ok I'm now tring Legacy OS 2.1 LTS and it doesn't have the driver. I have the pet file for the driver but don't know how to use it.
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