Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

wolfwatcher51 · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 148

tempestuous,

Thank you for the honest and quick reply.

You are the expert, have helped many, and I will follow your advice and wait for the 2.6.25.10 kernel.

Do you happen to know what the release will be called so I can watch for it?

Any best guess on a realistic range of dates for the release target?

Have you been given an advanced version of puppy with the new kernel, so that you can/have done any testing?

Thanks for all your work; past, present, and future, Chris.

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4944 Location: Australia

Since 4.1alpha2 there has been 4.1alpha3 and 4.1UniPup-alpha1. Keep your eye on the Developer Blog
http://puppylinux.com/blog/

sue · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 23 Location: Anaheim, CA, USA

Barry posted 4.0.4 last night. iwl4965 works fine out of the box.
I use a script, not the GUIs.

peterw · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 39 Location: UK

I am not an expert on these things but thought that I should contribute an observation that might help the developers. I hope that this is the right place for me to post this comment.

With the latest alpha release (4.1.06), I have tried a PCMIA card with rt2500 chips, a usb r73 device and an internal atheros ar5005g device on puppy and none of them can connect with wpa. The wizard says the rt2500 does not support wpa. The rt73 allows an attempt at wpa but does not connect.

I know that the ralink drivers in the kernal have supported wpa since 2.6.24. Indeed, I find that the later distros with a KDE window such as Pardus, Mandriva and Kubuntu connect up via these devices with wpa but Ubuntu with Gnome does not. I find this puzzling and presume that they must have different network managers.

Hope this observation can help.

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4944 Location: Australia