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markyd68a · Joined: 07 Mar 2012 Posts: 27

Been a big fan of Puppy Linux for many years, having a bootable USB stick in your pocket in the IT game is a very handy thing. When I got a new work laptop (ooooooh!) my Puppy stick broke due to drivers and time for an upgrade. Oh work laptop is a Dell E5420, nothing special but not bad either.

After a bit of a search in the forums someone suggested I try Precise Puppy 5.3 and I was mighty impressed, both the LAN and WI-FI worked, yey!

I am not sure how mainstream Precise is as a Puppy distro and the word in Puppy land is "Slacko is the future" so hey ho I took Slako 5.3.3 for a walk ..... mmmmmm nope WI-FI totally not recognised, using the corporate Windows build I checked out the hardware its a DW1530 Wireless-N.

I would like to use Slacko as it seems to have a wider software selection, from the quick look I gave it this morning I noticed that Skype was there and it was a mission getting it loaded in Precise.

Any clues how I get the wireless working in Slacko?

MarkyD

DutchPuppy · Posted: Thu 17 May 2012, 05:15 Post subject:

Hi,

After installed Slacko 5.3.3 my wlan also didnt work where it did in 5.3.1
The wireless card here is a Linksys wpc54g

I had another usb wifi drive which did connect at first so i could update the driver from the PPM, now in use is the broadcom_sta_5.*
Maybe this driver works with your card too,

After that the Linksys wpc54g worked but still instable, sometimes connect, sometimes not.

Then played with the frisbee file see http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=78286

in /etc/rc.d/init.d/Frisbee

i added sleep 2 and changed sleep 7 in sleep 10
Iam not familiar in editting this kind of files, but it works stable now anyhow...

Thought you just might give it a try

. /usr/local/Frisbee/config
. /usr/local/Frisbee/func

sleep 2

if [[ $1 == "start" || $1 == '' ]] ; then

sleep 10

WIFACES=$(iwconfig 2>&1 |egrep "^[a-z]"|grep -v "no wireless" |cut -f1 -d" ")
echo $WIFACES> /usr/local/Frisbee/interfaces

markyd68a · Joined: 07 Mar 2012 Posts: 27

wow that is a detailed reply thanks!

Previous versions of Slacko did not even have the wired NIC on the Dell E5420 working making it pretty hard to do anything, hence the move to Precise.

I am guessing I need to load up a driver module for theDW1530 card, guessing this is "Dell Wireless" before I can can make progress.

What I should do is fireup the Precise Puppy and see what module it is using ... anyone fancy giving me a few pointers on how to do that and I will try it out this lunchtime?

MarkyD

DutchPuppy · Posted: Thu 17 May 2012, 07:03 Post subject:

Hi MarkyD

Googling the DW1530 leads me to a post

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/64-bit/461439-dell-latiitude-e5520-2.html

Then looking at the Broadcom link into that post
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

it seems that the broadcomdriver 5.100.82.112 should do it.
And that one is in de PPM

Hope you'll get it on air soon! Regards Kees

markyd68a · Joined: 07 Mar 2012 Posts: 27

Ki Kees,

I am very humbled by the amount of effort you have put in to solve my problem, many thanks. Will give it a try ASAP and report back.

Regards,

MarkyD

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 2943 Location: Sydney Australia

markyd68a :

If that doesn't work...post a link to this question in the Slacko section.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76279

Tell >> 01micko that I sent you there.

Hear the groaning....ha! ..ha!

No...Uncle mick and the team will try and help you out.

You are using >>>Frisbee?????????.

There is Fat Slacko as well...par excellence.

Chris.