Puppy doesn't see Belkin wireless USB card (Solved)

[sumithar]

I have installed Puppy/Wary on an old Dell 620 Latitude laptop (P3, 256MB RAM) and was pleasantly surprised at the performance.
Even more surprised when it recognised the Belkin W/L lan adapter I plugged into a USB port.

Alas it had only the 1 USB port and it got damaged.

So I bought a PCMCIA card with 2 USB ports and attached that. During the bootup process it appeared to recognize that I had attached USB "device" via PCMCIA...it did some kind of count from 1 to 10 and then said USB.

This is the eBay link to the item I bought
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... OU:US:1123

But unfortunately it doesn't recognize the Belkin adapter now that it's plugged into the PCMCIA-USB port.

Any thoughts?

[rokytnji]

Readout is from my IBM a22m using a Belkin F5D 7010 ver. 6 Wireless G pcmcia card.

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# inxi -F
System:    Host biker Kernel 2.6.33.2 i686 (32 bit) Distro Ubuntu 10.04 lucid
CPU:       Single core Pentium III (Coppermine) (-UP-) cache 256 KB flags (sse) bmips 1992.71 clocked at 996.359 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x bus-ID: 01:00.0 X.org 1.7.6 tty res: 80x24 Gfx Data: N/A for root 
Audio:     Card Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] driver Sound Fusion CS46xx bus-ID: 00:05.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card-1 3Com 3c556B CardBus [Tornado] driver 3c59x port 2c00 bus-ID: 00:03.0
           Card-2 RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI driver rt61pci v: 2.3.0 bus-ID: 06:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 20.0GB (16.1% used) 1: /dev/sda IC25N020ATCS04 20.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 2.5G used: 761M (31%) fs: rootfs ID:swap-1 size: 0.76GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Info:      Processes 90 Uptime 14 min Memory 126.7/249.3MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.98 
# inxi -N
Network:   Card-1 3Com 3c556B CardBus [Tornado] driver 3c59x
           Card-2 RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI driver rt61pci

I am not sure if your pcmcia usb 2,0 card is recognized. I run a cheap chinese usb 2 port with 2 firewire ports (mini and regular firewire slots) external pcmcia card but my wireless is a separate pcmcia card. In other words. I don't use usb wireless through pcmcia card.

I would go into Menu>System>Sustem Status and Config> pupscan interface connection and select USB devices and see if your wireless usb stick is seen in there and if a driver is loaded for it. Will be a Different Description and Vendor but readout should look somewhat like mine. So go there

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DESCRIPTION: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
VENDOR: 1814  DEVICE: 0301  KERNEL MODULE: rt61pci

first to see if USB is being recognized through external pcmcia usb 2.0 Cardbus. inxi won;t work for you because I installed that script manually myself. You;ll just get a no command found error if you run that command.

Good Luck and Happy Trails, Rok

[sumithar]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply...

I don't know what I did, maybe jiggled it a bit but after a couple of reboots it's working fine now.

Very pleased!