Extra drivers for Puppy 4.1 with 2.6.25.16 kernel
Help!
I have been searching the forums for days trying to find a solution to my problem which is:
WLAN card not detected on a Eee pc 701SD.
I have tried both, Puppy 4.1.2 Normal and Retro.
I have tried both MADwifi modified drivers
I have tried module preference loading in boot manager.
Nothing seems to work.
I have another Eee pc which is the 4G model and the madwifi patch works fine in Puppy 4.1.2 Retro.
On the 701SD there seems to be quite a few different components. The processor and SSD are both different and obviously the wlan card too. BTW how do you find out the type of LAN card installed.
I am tempted to try Pupeee or Eeetiger but they are based on Puppy 3.01 and I didn't really want to return to the past. I really like Dingo.
Thanks
Smokey
I have been searching the forums for days trying to find a solution to my problem which is:
WLAN card not detected on a Eee pc 701SD.
I have tried both, Puppy 4.1.2 Normal and Retro.
I have tried both MADwifi modified drivers
I have tried module preference loading in boot manager.
Nothing seems to work.
I have another Eee pc which is the 4G model and the madwifi patch works fine in Puppy 4.1.2 Retro.
On the 701SD there seems to be quite a few different components. The processor and SSD are both different and obviously the wlan card too. BTW how do you find out the type of LAN card installed.
I am tempted to try Pupeee or Eeetiger but they are based on Puppy 3.01 and I didn't really want to return to the past. I really like Dingo.
Thanks
Smokey
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Well a quick Google search reveals that the 701SD has a Realtek RTL8187SE wifi chipset (same as the MSI Wind).
So the "rtl8187se-coffelius0.4-k2.6.25.16.pet" I provided earlier in this thread should do the job -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 747#237747
If not, please run this command
and report the output.
So the "rtl8187se-coffelius0.4-k2.6.25.16.pet" I provided earlier in this thread should do the job -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 747#237747
If not, please run this command
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lspci -n
tempestuous,
Thanks for the quick reply but unfortunately no luck. I had actually tried this driver previously but forgot to mention it. I tried it again just to be sure.
Attached is the output from the lspci -n command.
Thanks
Grant
Thanks for the quick reply but unfortunately no luck. I had actually tried this driver previously but forgot to mention it. I tried it again just to be sure.
Attached is the output from the lspci -n command.
Thanks
Grant
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EDIT:
smokey's wifi vendor/device 10ec:8199 is definitely compatible with the r8180 driver in the rtl8187se-coffelius dotpet.
smokey's wifi vendor/device 10ec:8199 is definitely compatible with the r8180 driver in the rtl8187se-coffelius dotpet.
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Intel 915/815
There is a bug in 4.12 (in fact all "dingo" based puppies I believe) for intel graphics chipsets 8xx and 9xx. It is caused by a missing video driver, i810_drv.so which is missing from the /usr/X11R7/lib/xorg/modules/drivers folder. It manifests by not displaying puppy in the correct screen resolution as specified by the user. This could be a problem as many laptops (and desktops) use onboard intel graphics and the screen resolution needs to be set correctly for LCD screens.
Instructions for how to fix the problem are here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37393
It consists of copying the i810_drv.so file from puppy 3 series to the correct location, and restarting the xorgserver. Thanks to ICPUG for finding the fix.
It would be great if someone with more skill than I would make a .pet to fix the problem, and post it here.
Instructions for how to fix the problem are here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37393
It consists of copying the i810_drv.so file from puppy 3 series to the correct location, and restarting the xorgserver. Thanks to ICPUG for finding the fix.
It would be great if someone with more skill than I would make a .pet to fix the problem, and post it here.
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Sorry, my server is down atm!
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tempestuous,
Wifi is now working thanks to your advice.
It appears I may have mixed up the versions of Puppy 4.1.2.
I tried to patch the Retro version of Puppy with the normal patch.
The Eee PC 701SD would not recognise the wlan card with Puppy 4.1.2 Retro, whether it was patched or not with the correct driver.
I had to install Puppy normal which unfortunately does not run on my desktop PC. For some reason it does not recognise my keyboard. Luckily Puppy Universal Installer doesn't know the difference between the two versions of Puppy so I was able to install to a USB flash drive from a CD then to the Eee PC.
Thanks again.
Smokey
Wifi is now working thanks to your advice.
It appears I may have mixed up the versions of Puppy 4.1.2.
I tried to patch the Retro version of Puppy with the normal patch.
The Eee PC 701SD would not recognise the wlan card with Puppy 4.1.2 Retro, whether it was patched or not with the correct driver.
I had to install Puppy normal which unfortunately does not run on my desktop PC. For some reason it does not recognise my keyboard. Luckily Puppy Universal Installer doesn't know the difference between the two versions of Puppy so I was able to install to a USB flash drive from a CD then to the Eee PC.
Thanks again.
Smokey
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That's somewhat misleading. Firstly, the drivers in this thread are in binary form, ready to install in Puppy. They are not patches.smokey01 wrote:The Eee PC 701SD would not recognise the wlan card with Puppy 4.1.2 Retro, whether it was patched or not with the correct driver.
All drivers in this thread are compatible only with the 2.6.25.16 kernel in Puppy 2.1.x, not with the 2.6.21.7 kernel in the "retro" versions. That was explained in the first post.
A driver for the RTL8187SE device has never been contributed on this forum for the 2.6.21.7 kernel.
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Jan 18 2009
Since we now know that there is one version of ASUS Eee with a Realtek wifi device, I have updated the Eee acpid dotpets in earlier post to include a version compatible with the r8180 wifi driver -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 744#237744
Since we now know that there is one version of ASUS Eee with a Realtek wifi device, I have updated the Eee acpid dotpets in earlier post to include a version compatible with the r8180 wifi driver -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 744#237744
ar5007eg Toshiba u305-s7448 Puppy 4.12
[quote="tempestuous"]For the ASUS Eee 700-series (but not 701SD) and 900 / 904HD / 1000HD / 1000HA:
Ethernet is supported out-of-the-box by the new atl2 module, and the webcam is supported by the new gspca module.
But the wifi chipset (Atheros AR5007EG) requires a non-standard variant of the MADWiFi (ath_pci) driver.
hlawson:
madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-k2.6.25.16.pet
This pet also installs and works as expected in Puppy 4.12 on a Toshiba Satellite u305-37448. Thanks for this package.
That solves the Puppy wireless problem on my Toshiba.
Ethernet is supported out-of-the-box by the new atl2 module, and the webcam is supported by the new gspca module.
But the wifi chipset (Atheros AR5007EG) requires a non-standard variant of the MADWiFi (ath_pci) driver.
hlawson:
madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-k2.6.25.16.pet
This pet also installs and works as expected in Puppy 4.12 on a Toshiba Satellite u305-37448. Thanks for this package.
That solves the Puppy wireless problem on my Toshiba.
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Here is the "gspca_t613" webcam driver, which supports the TASCORP JPEG Webcam, NGS Cyclops, USB ID 17a1:0128.
This driver is from development source code from
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~eandren/gspca-m5602/
And also attached is the (standard) gspca webcam driver, patched to add support for the Logitech QuickCam E2500, using a patch from
http://forums.quickcamteam.net/showthre ... 49#pid1949
This driver is from development source code from
http://linuxtv.org/hg/~eandren/gspca-m5602/
And also attached is the (standard) gspca webcam driver, patched to add support for the Logitech QuickCam E2500, using a patch from
http://forums.quickcamteam.net/showthre ... 49#pid1949
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eeePC 900 wireless
Thanks for madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-k2.6.25.16.pet tempestuous. I was very frustrated with wifi with eeepc but your fix is much appreciated.
Just to confirm. I had to disable WiFi in BIOS for eeePC 900 so it would load properly. Then re-enable it in BIOS after loading. Now I can get onto my WPA lan at home.
Just to confirm. I had to disable WiFi in BIOS for eeePC 900 so it would load properly. Then re-enable it in BIOS after loading. Now I can get onto my WPA lan at home.
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Here is the "sn9c20x" webcam driver for various models of microdia webcams, including models branded "Lifecam".
The source code is from http://groups.google.com/group/microdia ... iver-draft
After installing this dotpet, reboot. Puppy may automatically load this module, but if not load it manually as such -
Apparently this driver provides the video image in a pixelformat that most video/webcam applications cannot handle, so the libv4l library is required, also attached. The README will install to /root/my-applications/libv4l-README.txt
Instructions for use with the MPlayer, using MPlayer's v4l2 interface:
Install libv4l-0.5.8.pet
Before launching MPlayer, run this command -
Now launch MPlayer like this -
UPDATE:
It's important that MPlayer (or XawTV, or Skype, or whatever application you choose) is launched from the same xterminal that ran the "export LD_PRELOAD ..." command.
The source code is from http://groups.google.com/group/microdia ... iver-draft
After installing this dotpet, reboot. Puppy may automatically load this module, but if not load it manually as such -
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modprobe sn9c20x
Instructions for use with the MPlayer, using MPlayer's v4l2 interface:
Install libv4l-0.5.8.pet
Before launching MPlayer, run this command -
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export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l2convert.so
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mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=352:height=288:device=/dev/video0
It's important that MPlayer (or XawTV, or Skype, or whatever application you choose) is launched from the same xterminal that ran the "export LD_PRELOAD ..." command.
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Here is the v4l extension plugin for Xorg 7.3, therefore compatible with Puppy 4.0 onwards.
The source code is from
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X1 ... .1.tar.bz2
With this plugin the webcam/TV viewer application XawTV from
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 076#215076
should now hopefully work without disabling its "xv" output.
And it may solve various problems with other webcam-related applications, such as Skype?
After installing this dotpet, it needs to be enabled. Open /etc/X11/xorg.conf in Geany.
In Section "Module" add this line
Now restart X (or reboot).
The source code is from
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X1 ... .1.tar.bz2
With this plugin the webcam/TV viewer application XawTV from
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 076#215076
should now hopefully work without disabling its "xv" output.
And it may solve various problems with other webcam-related applications, such as Skype?
After installing this dotpet, it needs to be enabled. Open /etc/X11/xorg.conf in Geany.
In Section "Module" add this line
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Load "v4l"
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Works great on an old Dell B120. Thanks. You wouldn't believe how many hours I've spent on this.tempestuous wrote: But some Broadcom wifi devices, especially those found in Dell and HP notebooks, are notorious for failing to work with these drivers.
For these troublesome devices the proprietary Broadcom hybrid driver will likely work better. Now attached.
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Do you mean the patched version of the standard driver (rtl8187-test-k2.6.25.16.pet)?
It has been widely reported as problematic.
If so, just move on to the proprietary driver - r8187-B-FEB09-k2.6.25.16.pet, posted earlier in this thread -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 339#252339
There's no guarantee that this driver will work, but I can't imagine it would do any harm.
It has been widely reported as problematic.
If so, just move on to the proprietary driver - r8187-B-FEB09-k2.6.25.16.pet, posted earlier in this thread -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 339#252339
There's no guarantee that this driver will work, but I can't imagine it would do any harm.
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EDIT Feb 18 2009:
Development wifi drivers for aircrack-ng removed. See later post for better aircrack-ng-compatible drivers.
Development wifi drivers for aircrack-ng removed. See later post for better aircrack-ng-compatible drivers.
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BE CAREFULL
I installed that pet package and now my system didn't boot. I have Puppy installed in the HD and i suposse that when i uninstalled the wify pet package other files was deleted and now the PC don't boot.
tempestuous i uninstall the pet package because after reeboot the PC if i wrote "iwconfig" Puppy didn't detect any interface wify. I copy & paste some comands and you can see that didn't load the modules of my two wify cards conected to the PC (ipw4965 & ralinkUSB rt73):
Now i am going to try to reconfigure my Puppy installed in the HD for boot it.
I hope you can made another better package with the wify drivers patched.
Regards caka
I installed that pet package and now my system didn't boot. I have Puppy installed in the HD and i suposse that when i uninstalled the wify pet package other files was deleted and now the PC don't boot.
tempestuous i uninstall the pet package because after reeboot the PC if i wrote "iwconfig" Puppy didn't detect any interface wify. I copy & paste some comands and you can see that didn't load the modules of my two wify cards conected to the PC (ipw4965 & ralinkUSB rt73):
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
And the more interesting, if i try to upload the wify driver for my rt73 see this:# lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 32068 0
lp 12580 0
parport 35656 2 parport_pc,lp
snd_pcm_oss 40992 0
snd_seq_dummy 3844 0
snd_seq_oss 31360 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7168 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 47952 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 8204 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_mixer_oss 16640 1 snd_pcm_oss
usbhid 29696 0
fan 5508 0
rfkill 7188 0
input_polldev 5000 0
crc_itu_t 2176 0
tifm_sd 11144 0
squashfs 46856 0
unionfs 73572 0
fuse 48284 0
sdhci 17288 0
mmc_block 12676 0
nls_iso8859_1 4096 0
nls_cp437 5760 0
serio_raw 6788 0
iwlcore 78336 0
tifm_7xx1 7296 0
ohci1394 31792 0
led_class 4612 1 iwlcore
mac80211 155548 1 iwlcore
mmc_core 46868 3 tifm_sd,sdhci,mmc_block
pcspkr 2944 0
cfg80211 27144 2 iwlcore,mac80211
tifm_core 9748 2 tifm_sd,tifm_7xx1
ieee1394 89272 1 ohci1394
yenta_socket 26252 1
rsrc_nonstatic 12928 1 yenta_socket
i2c_i801 10000 0
tg3 114692 0
i2c_core 24592 1 i2c_i801
snd_hda_intel 333204 0
snd_pcm 73736 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 52772 8 snd_pcm_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7520 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10376 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
uhci_hcd 23820 0
ehci_hcd 33932 0
usbcore 136560 4 usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
intel_agp 26812 1
agpgart 33584 1 intel_agp
wmi 7720 0
video 19472 0
battery 12932 0
output 3840 1 video
container 4736 0
evdev 11776 0
thermal 18716 0
button 8080 0
ac 5892 0
processor 32816 2 thermal
I forgot to type "dmesg" or other comands but if you tell me something i could help you.# modprobe rt73usb
WARNING: Error inserting rt2x00lib (/lib/modules/2.6.25.16/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
WARNING: Error inserting rt2x00usb (/lib/modules/2.6.25.16/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00usb.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
FATAL: Error inserting rt73usb (/lib/modules/2.6.25.16/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
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Now i am going to try to reconfigure my Puppy installed in the HD for boot it.
I hope you can made another better package with the wify drivers patched.
Regards caka
I arrenge Puppy and now i can boot from the HD again. tempestous when i uninstalled your package i think that the file /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is modifiqued and Puppy don't boot.Now i am going to try to reconfigure my Puppy installed in the HD for boot it.
Be carefull, I copy the file /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit from the Live-Cd to my hark disk and now i can boot Puppy. And now i can see the interfaces for my two wify drivers but your package wirth the drivers patched don't work in my Puppy 4.1.2
Regards caka...