Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

sh1232 · Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 4

Pattpup wrote: "I have had success with the ipw2200 driver in Puppy 2.14 for both Intel 2915abg and Intel 2200bg cards. "

I have HP/Compaq nc6220 running 2.14 on USB stick. I loaded the supplied ipw2200 and got error: "Loading ipw2200 failed; try a different driver." Tried ipw2100 & 3945 just for the heck of it, and got the same error mesg.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

SH

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5468 Location: Australia

Apparently the Compaq nc6220 has a Wireless On/Off button.
It might be that simple.

If not, run "lspci" to try to identify the pci id of your wifi device.

sh1232 · Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 4

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5468 Location: Australia

Well your wifi device is listed:
"8086:4223 (rev 05)" = Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG
And that's a valid pci id for the ipw2200 driver.

I was about to suggest you check a few things in bios, then I came across this post -
http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t46299.html

While you're in bios, check if there is an option for "PnP OS = YES/NO".
Set it for "NO" and many hardware problems may then go away.

sh1232 · Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 4

Unfortunately, there is no "PnP OS" option for the machine, and reset did not work. I have had other hardware problem with this machine recently, but oddly the wifi works whenever I boot Windows on it.

Oh well. Thanks!
SH

ezeze5000 · Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 346 Location: Missouri U.S.A

I found this here on the puppy forum....can't remember where.

This might apply or not but at least should be innocuous and worth trying.
I had similar problems with my laptop equipped with bcm43xx and ubuntu, and in order to have wi-fi connection standing I had to boot with the following boot parameters (which here I report adapted to puppy linux):
Code:
puppy acpi=strict acpi=noirq pci=biosirq pci=nosort irqpoll routeirq

I hope this helps

sh1232 · Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 4

Thank you.

I am using USB flash drive, so I edited syslinux.cfg based on a posting elsewhere in the forum http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/search.php?search_id=1693751846&start=15

I added the additional instructions:

default vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initrd.gz PMEDIA=usbflash acpi=strict acpi=noirq pci=biosirq pci=nosort irqpoll routeirq

I rebooted and I still cannot turn the wifi on the machiine. I loaded ipw2200, and still get the same err msg.

SH

taichifu · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 64

Hi

Anyone managed to get a Wireless Buffalo Air Station WLI-CB-G54 WORKING. It's a PCMCIA card.

Thanks

biloximanint · Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 4

Puppy Linux is great! I was able to get my Linksys WPC54GX working by using ndiswrapper and the driver/inf files off of the original CD--for some reason, the driver download from the Linksys site didn't work for me.

alienjeff · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2291 Location: Winsted, CT - USA

This is all wonderful information, though has grown to a point of needing some compilation in the interest of being even more valuable than it already is. I have no experience in setting such up, but here's what I'm envisioning, should some benevolent soul desire to build such a thing:

A chart with wifi card manufacturer/model/chipset in the left-hand column - in alpha-numeric order, top to bottom; Puppy version numbers across the top row; and both driver number and either "Linux" or "ndis" in the appropriate crosshatch boxes.

Linux/ndis could be omitted were an appropriate two-color scheme and key applied to the driver number.

Any takers?

-aj

Flash · Posted: Wed 30 May 2007, 16:46 Post subject:

Something like a spreadsheet wiki? Lobster might know of such a thing.

Colin 2905 · Joined: 23 May 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Canberra, ACT

samwise · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 22 Location: Sydney, Australia

After spending up to 3 days on some other mini-distros trying to get my home network connection running on my dell inspiron 6400, i was getting depressed.

Puppy had the inbuilt wireless (intell PRO/Wireless 3954ABG) going in all of 5 minutes. Now that is user-friendliness right there.

joewilly · Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 10

Hi all,
I was trying to get a D-Link 650 vP pcmcia card to work, but no luck yet. However I was letting my daughter use a Netopia 3D reach USB. On Puppy 2.14 and now 2.16 wizard usedthe rt2570 driver worked first time. The box is a toshiba satellite 1715. Using the live CD. This a new cheap one frm china.
Joewilly

ipw2200user · Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 3 Location: New Zealand

The Zyxel ZD1201 chipset-based USB wireless "dongles" also work with puppy, however you have to download the firmware (just google it!) and put the firmware binaries in /lib/firmware.