broadcom and puppy 301

[koker]

Hi, friends.

I,am working with a travelMate290E and it has a wiffi conecction with broadcom. I,ve read with others puppys it didn,t work well but now I,ve found it does (with ubuntu I,ve not capable of doing). except when the computer sometimes don't recognize the wifi hardware opening linux (I don't know why yet)

I,ve read in the forum i can do the computer begin directly with my options without need of open the network wizard, select my options in "wireless" and later select auto DHCP and wait 60 seconds. I cannot remember the way but I had to write two lines in etc/rc.d/rc.local. Can someone tell what I had to do? thanks, koker

[dittocookie]

you may not have a driver for wifi. Ubuntu is a full blown distro with just about all the drivers. you can download it from the internet

[raffy]

I think s/he said that Puppy worked, but s/he forgot how it was done. Anyway, what are the two lines that you added?

Usually saving the profile enables you to use it in the next boot.

[rarsa]

Usually saving the profile enables you to use it in the next boot.

Usually but there are problems with some broadcom addapters.

Here is what I had to do for the bcm43xx driver

1. Configure your wireless using the wizard. That will create the following two files:
/etc/<inteface>wireless
/etc/<interface>mode

e.g.
/etc/eth0wireless
/etc/eth0mode

2. Edit your rc.local file adding the following (replace the eth1 with the interface that corresponds to your card)

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rmmod bcm43xx
sleep 2
modprobe bcm43xx

ifconfig eth1 up

<contents of /etc/eth0wireless>
<contents of /etc/eth0mode>

for example:

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rmmod bcm43xx
sleep 2
modprobe bcm43xx

ifconfig eth1 up

iwconfig eth1 essid "myessid"
iwconfig eth1 mode managed
iwconfig eth1 key FE16866AA78

rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth1.pid 2>/dev/null
rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth1.cache 2>/dev/null 
rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth1.info 2>/dev/null 
dhcpcd eth1

3. Remove the configuration files
/etc/<inteface>wireless
/etc/<interface>mode