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[tempestuous]

Here is the pcnet_cs cardbus-ethernet driver, patched to fix a problem with recognition of the Netgear FA411 device.
The patch is from here
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org/msg02001.html

After installing this dotpet, reboot.

[Barburo]

@tempestuous
I have HP tx1000 laptop. It has the broadcomm bcm43xx wifi chip.
Wireless works with the retro kernel.
I loaded regular Puppy 4.1.2 and tried to use the wl driver per your instructions.
Downloaded broadcom-5.10.27.14-k2.6.25.16.pet
rebooted and B43 identifies wlan0 but won't connect.
Checked bootkernel.log and found these lines towars the end of the log:

[tempestuous]

[Barburo]

@Tempestuous
Thanks for your swift reply.
I tried your recommendations,maade the changes in the preferences file, installed the ,pet and had the same result as before.
Looking at the quoted text in my previous post it first tries to load WL but complains it is tainted.

[tempestuous]

[Barburo]

..accidental double post - deleted

[Barburo]

Thanks Tempestuous for pointing me in the right direction.
I got connected in 4.1.2 (that's the 2.6.26. kernel I believe) as soon as I copied the B43 library to firmware.
I tried the same B43 lib with the 2.6.28 SMP kernel that unnamed pup and Lighthouse RC2 are using but it failed (only just though). As you pointed out

[tempestuous]

[Barburo]

@Tempestuous
Thanks for your patience and commitment to helping us Puppy users
After spending many hours in fruitless experimentation I can now get wifi connected in 4.1.2 plus later variants.

When I can't get things to work it's usually operator error, or some other dumb mistake. This time all that was needed to make the Broadcom chip work in my HP Tx1000 was the correct set of b43 firmware files which you pointed me at.

In the end this source for b43_patch.tar.gz http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=17806 provided b43 firmware that worked for the SMP 2.6.28 kernel Puplets and allowed me to get connected.

This source for b43.zip http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=18072 worked OK for regular 4.1.2 but reported a corrupted firmware file b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw on other puplets.

I hope this may help others with a similar problem.

Thanks again!
B.

[evgeniy]

Hello
I use Puppy 4.1.2 (barebone) on computer with hardware watchdog which I have to use (for some project). Computer is based on intel 915 chipset and probably iTCO_wdt driver should work. I had also Ubuntu 9.04 installed on another computer and it has /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/kernel/drivers/watchdog directory with all drivers, but on Puppy there is no even softdog driver... Is there any way to add these drivers to Puppy?
Thank you in advance.

[tempestuous]

[evgeniy]

[tempestuous]

Sure.
Make sure you start with the correct kernel configuration - it's at /etc/modules/DOTconfig-K2.6.25.16
Copy it across to /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.16 and rename it ".config"

Also you must install lzma-458.pet from
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/
otherwise the last stage of the kernel image build will fail.

[evgeniy]

[tempestuous]

Yes, but of course there are other steps, too. When you run "make menuconfig" you are presented with the kernel configuration as defined by the Puppy configuration file. Obviously you need to change this configuration, specifically at -

Device Drivers > Watchdog Timer Support > Intel TCO Timer/Watchdog

After "make bzImage" you will need to rename the new kernel image "vmlinuz", and boot to this new kernel instead of the existing one.

Since this new kernel will be very similar to the existing kernel (just one extra feature enabled) you could probably get away with not compiling all the modules ... but of course, you still need to generate the iTCO_wdt module, so you will need to do the whole "make modules" process just for this module.