Pizzapup: Wireless Woes
Posted: Sat 10 Mar 2007, 19:44
Well done everyone! This is a great distro. Finally, I can 'play' in Linux and learn something. And with puppy I am learning a lot. Thanks!
I have experimented installing on different desktop PCs and Puppy always installs effortlessly including the network connection using the network wizard.
I have a Compaq Armada laptop, PIII 500MHz, 384MB RAM, with a Dlink GWL G630 wireless pc card. On the laptop 2.14 installed OK, and, using the network wizard and ndiswrapper and the windows driver on the CD, I got the wireless working. Ditto the above on a desktop PIII 1GHz, 512RAM, with a Trendnet wireless card also using the drivers on the CD.
However, and, this is what this is about, Pizzapup will not do the same on both PCs. I have tried many times to install the driver. Once it even said that the hardware was detected but no go. The drivers can be found in the ndiswrapper folder. I used the command line as well.
ndiswrapper -i seems to install correctly.
ndiswrapper -l shows installed
modprobe can't remember the output
iwconfig shows no extensions for w0lan
Is the ndiswrapper an older version?
Any clues?
I am using 2.14 wirelessly connected to send you this.
Thanks!
I have experimented installing on different desktop PCs and Puppy always installs effortlessly including the network connection using the network wizard.
I have a Compaq Armada laptop, PIII 500MHz, 384MB RAM, with a Dlink GWL G630 wireless pc card. On the laptop 2.14 installed OK, and, using the network wizard and ndiswrapper and the windows driver on the CD, I got the wireless working. Ditto the above on a desktop PIII 1GHz, 512RAM, with a Trendnet wireless card also using the drivers on the CD.
However, and, this is what this is about, Pizzapup will not do the same on both PCs. I have tried many times to install the driver. Once it even said that the hardware was detected but no go. The drivers can be found in the ndiswrapper folder. I used the command line as well.
ndiswrapper -i seems to install correctly.
ndiswrapper -l shows installed
modprobe can't remember the output
iwconfig shows no extensions for w0lan
Is the ndiswrapper an older version?
Any clues?
I am using 2.14 wirelessly connected to send you this.
Thanks!