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my laptop will not work outside

#136 Post by Pelo »

You will not get wireless working with your WiFi antennas unless rcrsn51 has compiled the driver. Most of new kernels will let your laptop without web if you don't stay indoor. That is a pity ! I gave my tablet because i don't like to type on screen. I was not thinking at all that my laptop will not work outside
For most kernels, wlan1 is deficient because drivers included in Puppy ISO are without effect.

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#137 Post by Mike Walsh »

To some extent I agree with you, Pelo. In other respects I can't.....not entirely.

I use two different wireless adapters on occasion. A TP-Link WN-725N 'nano' USB, which uses the r8188eu driver; and a NetGear WNA-3100M 'mini' USB......which uses the often 'wonky' rtl8192cu in-kernel driver.

For the TP-Link, I use several of rcrsn51's compiled drivers, because the driver for this chipset didn't appear before the 3.14 kernel; indeed, Tahrpup was the very first to have it included by default.

The NetGear, however, despite the fact that the in-kernel version of this driver has often been 'dodgy', works in every Pup bar one, with no messing about. The exception? Slacko 570.....which I no longer use. (I now run its predecessor, 560, instead.....which works OOTB.)

Bill's driver for 570 just would not work.....no matter how often I blacklisted the in-kernel driver. I gave it up as a bad job eventually.....and stuck with eth0 in 570.

It's the only time I've ever had a problem of any kind with one of Bill's drivers. Most odd!


Mike. :wink:

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Re: my laptop will not work outside

#138 Post by greengeek »

Pelo wrote: Most of new kernels will let your laptop without web if you don't stay indoor..
Hi Pelo, can you explain what you mean by this? Do you mean that you can not connect to the internet once you are outside your house? (but you used to be able to do this with old puppies?)

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#139 Post by rcrsn51 »

Mike Walsh wrote:Bill's driver for 570 just would not work
I checked this driver in Slacko 570 with PWF and it worked fine. It was auto-detected and did not need blacklisting. By any chance,were you using the nonPAE version of Slacko?

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#140 Post by Mike Walsh »

Hallo, Bill.

No, I'd thought of that quite early on in the process. I know from reading various of the threads on this subject here on the Forum, that there's always been problems with the non-PAE version of Slacko 570.

Mine was the PAE version. I've always used them.

I really don't understand what the problem was, TBH. Your 'r8188eu' driver you let me have on more than one occasion for 570 always worked perfectly. The 'in-kernel' version of 'rtl8192cu' in Slacko just would not work, so I used your version, not expecting any problems at all. And was gobsmacked when I did.....

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the problem, since I no longer use 570. One of the first things I tried with 560 was whether the NetGear WNA-3100M adapter would work with the 'in-kernel' version of 'rtl8192cu'.....and it connected straight away!

I had to quit using 570; I also run rg66's X-Slacko 2.3.2 (both use the same kernel), and quite early on they began to insist on putting their save-files/folders in each other's partitions, instead of their own. Since I run broadly the same range of apps on every Pup in the kennels, it became a nightmare trying to use the same SFS, for instance..... (*shakes head in exasperation*)

I suppose I could always run 570 from the LiveCD, and try the NetGear adapter out with your version of the driver that way. Do you want me to? I suppose it's always possible my savefile was starting to get corrupted; I did do an awful lot of messing around with 570 in the early days...


Mike. :wink:

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