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sh1232
Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 4
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Posted: Thu 17 May 2007, 06:20 Post subject:
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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
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tempestuous
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5472 Location: Australia
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Posted: Thu 17 May 2007, 06:51 Post subject:
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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.
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sh1232
Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 4
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Posted: Thu 17 May 2007, 11:56 Post subject:
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Quote: | 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. |
Unfortunately, the power button only works under Windows. I've looked in the bios setting, and I did not find way to turn it on from outside Windows.
I tried "lspci", and I cannot see any wifi device. Attached is the lspci output from the console. Maybe it is there and I am not seeing it.
Again, thanks for any help.
SH
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tempestuous
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5472 Location: Australia
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Posted: Thu 17 May 2007, 13:04 Post subject:
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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.
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sh1232
Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 4
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Posted: Thu 17 May 2007, 16:38 Post subject:
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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
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ezeze5000

Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 346 Location: Missouri U.S.A
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Posted: Thu 17 May 2007, 22:24 Post subject:
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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):
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puppy acpi=strict acpi=noirq pci=biosirq pci=nosort irqpoll routeirq
I hope this helps
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sh1232
Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 4
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Posted: Fri 18 May 2007, 03:14 Post subject:
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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
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taichifu
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 67
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Posted: Sat 19 May 2007, 05:36 Post subject:
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Hi
Anyone managed to get a Wireless Buffalo Air Station WLI-CB-G54 WORKING. It's a PCMCIA card.
Thanks
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biloximanint
Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 4
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Posted: Wed 30 May 2007, 09:38 Post subject:
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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.
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alienjeff

Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2291 Location: Winsted, CT - USA
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Posted: Wed 30 May 2007, 16:04 Post subject:
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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
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Flash
Official Dog Handler

Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 13391 Location: Arizona USA
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Posted: Wed 30 May 2007, 16:46 Post subject:
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Something like a spreadsheet wiki? Lobster might know of such a thing.
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Colin 2905
Joined: 23 May 2007 Posts: 14 Location: Canberra, ACT
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Posted: Wed 30 May 2007, 18:58 Post subject:
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cobelloy wrote: |
netgear wg511v3 - ndiswrapper
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Netgear WG511 v2 (made in China) also works fine, using ndiswrapper and the W2K drivers. From memory, the v2 (made in China) uses a Marvell chipset. (The Netgear cards are often available as a bundle with some Netgear routers, for little more than the cost of the router alone.)
Also working via ndiswrapper is the wireless LAN side of my Sony-Ericsson GC79 GPRS/WLAN card (Broadcom chipset). Apparently it's also possible to get the GPRS side working under Linux, but I haven't attempted that yet.
Using WPA1 with both of the above.
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samwise
Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 22 Location: Sydney, Australia
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Posted: Thu 14 Jun 2007, 22:26 Post subject:
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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.
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joewilly
Joined: 16 Jun 2007 Posts: 10
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Posted: Tue 19 Jun 2007, 21:35 Post subject:
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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
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ipw2200user

Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 3 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Wed 20 Jun 2007, 05:19 Post subject:
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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.
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