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[Aitch]

tempestuous/others

This may be useful to identify many wifi cards, but not sure drivers yet....

http://www.linlap.com/wiki/linux+wireless+chipset+detector

tempestuous,

maybe worth contacting the dev...?


Aitch

[tempestuous]

[tempestuous]

[Frank78]

Ok great. Thanks for your help. Basically I will be reinstalling Windows XP and will also be installing Puppy. Once I work out where my driver is I'm Windows, I will try ndiswrapper again.

I just need to download service pack 3 before I do the Windows reinstall. But I am impressed with Puppy so far and hope to use it for some music production and basic photo/video editing.

Security wise, if I browse the web via Puppy, how easy is it for viruses to infect my files? I was considering doing a frugal install on my data partition (i.e. Windows and program files on c drive but data and puppy on d).

I've read instructions on creating separate partitions for Puppy and for a swap file etc but not sure what the benefits are.

[xman]

About year ago I lost XP drivers for wlg-pcm/II wireless pc card. Don't ask how, but they were gone for ever. I had and I still have original drivers on cd, but I was needing updated drivers to use WPA connection. And manufacturers download link was broken for ever, I thought.

I studied my card specs: age, latest date for drivers, appearance, properties, etc. Then I googled and googled, and finally found same card with different name and tapes : TEW-421PC (Version B1.1R). Then I downloaded driver package and unzipped XP drivers: Marvell 88w8335 [Libertas], and put them to some folder.

Now I have a reliable WPA connection in XP, Quirky and Wary (ndiswrapper, classic wizard), but not in Lupu-520,525 (SNS connects more often than classic, but OS freezes all the time).

Any comments?

[tempestuous]

[Jades]

Netgear WN111v2
Puppy ver. - Lupu 5.01 and above.
Interface: USB.
Chipset: Atheros AR9170?
Device Driver (name & source): Came with Lupu, presumably ar9170usb based on what HardInfo says.
WiFi Protocols that work (A, B, G, N): Confirmed working with N, data sheet says device also supports B and G.
Security Protocols confirmed working (WEP, WPA, WPA2): WPA2-PSK, data sheet says it also supports WPA-PSK and WEP 64 & 128 bit.
Configured with (Wizard, Ndiswrapper, Manual, Other?): Network Wizard.

Notes & Issues: Worked straight out of the box without needing to download additional drivers, all I needed to do was configure it in Network Wizard (my network is set up using static IP addresses with DHCP off so it didn't set up automatically and I didn't use SNS). Works exceptionally well with Merlin (see sig), seemingly at the same or better speed as in XP using the official Netgear drivers although I haven't benchmarked this so can't say for certain. Not managed to get it to work properly with Zhaan, although this is most likely due to that machine being an 'experienced' AMD K6-2 500 machine with USB 1.1 only or something to do with the location.

Edit: Corrected typo. Well spotted tempestuous!

[tempestuous]

[dk60902]

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[Alucinary]

Device Name & version (from package or device): Huawei E160
Puppy versions tested: Aquila Puppy (built from Woof using the latest Debian release at this time)
Interface (USB, PCMCIA, PCI, mini-PCI?): USB
Chipset: NA
Device Driver (name & source): NA
WiFi Protocols that work (A, B, G, N): untested
Security Protocols confirmed working (WEP, WPA, WPA2): untested
Configured with (Wizard, Ndiswrapper, Manual, Other?): PGRPS Wizard
Posted by & date: Alucinary 27/4/2011
Location of Original Post: UK
Notes & Issues: I found the following details necessary for my O2 service provider -
serial modem device file: /dev/ttyUSB0
apn: m-bb.o2.co.uk
username: o2bb
password: password
phone number: *99#
phone pin: [BLANK]

also unfortunately in order to get it to connect successfully i had to manually navigate to the options file [/etc/ppp/options] and alter the baud rate to 9600. it would then connect fine using the pgprs-connect. I have not been able to try the wireless router in this device, only the 3G...

[Aitch]

Alucinary

9600 [9.6kb] baud rate is way too slow for 3G which is a 3.6/7.2Mb capable device

see http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=431074#431074

or pm rerwin - dialup/wireless/3G modem guru

Aitch

[Alucinary]

Thanks; I also thought 9600 sounded too low when I initially tried it!

however... I had read on an O2 troubleshooting forum that this setting worked for other linux distros - I do not profess to understand why, but the device certainly isn't running at this speed as I am able to happily stream BBC iPlayer videos and Spotify tracks without buffering problems.

None the less I shall happily read the thread that you suggest and would be happy to help rerwin test their code

Incidentally, Puppy Linux is the only OS that I have reliably had this device working for now - even Windows for which it was designed fails regularly (I think that is more the O2 software more than anything though)

[bender1077]

Hello! First post here, but enough with the small talk!

I did not see this USB adapter listed in the first post so....

Device Name & version : Linksys WUSB300N
Puppy versions tested: Wary 5.1.2
Interface : USB
Chipset: TOPDOG by Marvell
Device Driver : netmw245.inf
WiFi Protocols that work (A, B, G, N): B, G, N
Security Protocols confirmed working (WEP, WPA, WPA2): WPA2
Configured with (Wizard, Ndiswrapper, Manual, Other?): Ndiswrapper
Notes & Issues: When configuring this adapter on any linux distro I have found I can only use the driver directly from the install disc.

[RetroTechGuy]

OK, so I skimmed the list a bit...

Suppose that you don't have a wireless card yet.

Suppose that you want to buy a brand new USB dongle, that supports WEP thru WPA2... And will operate under Lupu 5.20, correctly identified.

Don't want any mucking around (no windows drivers, etc), just plug it, run the configurator, and start cruising the web...

So, which brand/model would you buy if you were doing it today?

What might also be interesting is, what brands/models would you not buy?

[Aitch]

RTG

Good question

I'd answer by saying, 'It depends on the use you are going to put it to and location'

At home I have broadband, but occasionally test wifi - but only 54G not N

When I visit friends I often find they have N routers so I can get faster connections using an N dongle

I also spend a lot of time traveling, or on a boat so have a 1 watt [High power, with booster aerial] dongle for that, which also does N data rate, and with good long range connectivity

I prefer dongles that use Ralink chipsets, as they seem better supported

Of the 'mainstream' dongles, often supplied with routers, I might surprise some, but I wouldn't buy/use Belkin, as I had no end of trouble, with poor connections and dropouts, but found Linksys to be OK

This is a useful page for anyone asking the same question

http://users.linpro.no/janl/hardware/wifi.html

later info

http://linux-wless.passys.nl/

Aitch