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Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] & Dell B120
Posted: Thu 06 Feb 2014, 16:59
by r4dic4l
Dell B120 (rescue)
Slacko Puppy 5.6.0 (Full-install)
Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
PCMCIA
Native b43 driver
Wireless: G
WPA2
Frisbee
After several days of trying to get this damaged rescue laptop to take and boot an install of anything; this OS has found it’s home. It will also become my new "work" laptop as it is high time I delve deeper into open-source instead of hacking, cracking, blatant mis-use and general disregard of respect for copy-righted material(s).
This Frisbee network manager is the BOMB.
Posted: Fri 07 Feb 2014, 22:48
by boof
rddic4l:
you've encouraged me-I've bought a mini PCI-e version of your device, hoping to get top encryption. 2-4 weeks from China via ebay. Can't wait to try it out..
where there's a will, there's a lawyer.
B.O.M.B: Best Ordinary Mixed Black????? [the Goon show:xxxxxx; Eccles and Bluebottle driving a steam train, Eccles pick up piece of coal with BOMB written on it. [reads aloud] "B.O.M.B. [struggles to pronounce it] Says "Strong coal!" Bluebottle says :"Best......., that's what that is, throw it into the fire, Eccles"]
Posted: Sat 08 Feb 2014, 02:38
by r4dic4l
Using Linux (other than troubleshooting hardware issues) as a primary OS was always put off for network cofig issues: Got network? Got answers!
I actually look forward to opening this pet up to take it for walks. Or is it the other way around...?
I needed a replacement pet anyway as I took Beast (my rotty) ice-fishing last month. Instead of cutting holes; I stand back and lob grenades to take the strain off my back.
Well, Beast decided to "fetch" the first attempt and jumps back in my new Escalade. BOMB went BOOM!
Moral of the story?
Stay away from guys name "Eccles" and "Bluebottle".
Don't own a dumb pet: Stay with Puppy. lol
Good luck with the networking.
See ya round....
Edit:
Hope you get your toy sooner than later. I order pieces and parts from China and the Chinese New Year really stalls their system for a bit.
WIFI - 3Com 3CRWE154G72 PCMIA card
Posted: Fri 18 Apr 2014, 18:38
by newtusmaximus
Works with Puppy 5.2.8 & 5.7.1
Dell Latitude D600 Intel 2100 wireless
Posted: Fri 11 Jul 2014, 16:48
by LukeM
I got one of these in an auction, and loaded Slacko PuPPy 5.7.
The wireless would not work out of the box.
Things to check:
Go into the BIOS (F2 on startup) and make sure the wireless is turned on. It didn't matter if the setting was F2 or Application.
Boot the machine, and use any of the wireless network setup tools (all 3 worked eventually)
They did see the available wireless networks around my neighborhood, but would not connect to mine. All the others were protected/unavailable.
So, seeing the interface was up with the ifconfig eth1 command, but without a DHCP provided IP address, I looked elsewhere.
It dawned on me that this is 10 year old hardware, and may only work at 11Mb/second (802.11b). I had set my wireless router to only connect with 802.11g (54Mb/second). I changed the router to Mixed, and it connected like a charm. DHCP worked fine as well.
Posted: Sat 12 Jul 2014, 01:11
by cthisbear
LukeM:
Nice helpful report mate.
Cheers....Chris.
Posted: Sat 12 Jul 2014, 18:09
by rokytnji
Wireless N pcmcia sold out of China that
I bought
It uses a
Code: Select all
Card-2: Ralink RT2800 802.11n PCI driver: rt2800pci
chip.
Code: Select all
# iwconfig wlan1 | grep -i --color quality
Link Quality=52/70 Signal level=-58 dBm
iwconfig wlan1 | grep -i --color signal
Link Quality=52/70 Signal level=-58 dBm
I used to run a Belkin F5D 7010
.ver 6 PCMCIA Wireless G card in here (IBM T23 Laptop).
Price is right for
New wireless N pcmcia and they ship worldwide. I already have mine.
I am not affiliated and I am not spamming this. Just posting info and think it is a good deal for Wireless N in Puppy on old gear.
Posted: Mon 21 Jul 2014, 18:17
by stray_dog
I picked up a used HP Elitebook that has one of these Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300's in it. I've been using Slack0 5.6 & 5.7 & it works pretty well. Uses the iwlwifi driver. Sometimes it's slow to connect to an unencrypted signal when using Frisbee, but after a connection is made, seems alright.
Posted: Fri 01 Aug 2014, 20:19
by Flash
NetGear N900 (WNDA4100) USB wireless dongle works in all Puppies with late kernels. Fatdog64-700a1; Slacko64-5.9.1; Tahr-5.8.3 all found the N900 out of the box. Others may work as well, I just didn't get around to trying them.
Posted: Sat 02 Aug 2014, 20:35
by don570
Netgear Wn 111 USB wifi dongle works in tahr and other puppies
It has been unstable in precise 5.7.1
Netgear Wn 111 USB wifi
Edit: It's stable in precise puppy. I had a damaged install which was giving me
a bad result.
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Posted: Tue 04 Nov 2014, 11:11
by stray_dog
Ubiquiti SWX-SRX and SR71 both worked for me nicely on slacko 6.
Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2014, 02:55
by RetroTechGuy
Got this o.n s.a.l.e (even cheaper than listed)
EDIMAX EW-7811Un N150 USB 2.0 Wireless nano Adapter
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6833315091
Works in Win7 (using provided driver from CD -- not automagic)
Works under Puppy 5.28 (using the XP driver from CD, and windows wrapper).
(my internal card failed and was replaced with this -- in addition to low external profile, the heat coming from my Win7 laptop dropped substantially -- apparently the internal card was shedding lots of heat -- didn't check for shorts in it yet...)
Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2014, 03:53
by rcrsn51
RetroTechGuy wrote:EDIMAX EW-7811Un
That device uses the rtl8192cu driver and should work in any k3.x Puppy without needing ndiswrapper.
Posted: Thu 11 Dec 2014, 02:43
by RetroTechGuy
rcrsn51 wrote:RetroTechGuy wrote:EDIMAX EW-7811Un
That device uses the rtl8192cu driver and should work in any k3.x Puppy without needing ndiswrapper.
Thanks Rcrsn.
I couldn't get the device to show up at all, until I used the XP drivers (running 5.28.005 IIRC rev correctly).
Wifi with EDIMAX EW-7811Un and Slacko
Posted: Thu 11 Dec 2014, 17:41
by kforce
EDIMAX EW-7811Un
Works out of the box with Slacko 5.7.
Have it working on 2 computers and
have had no issues with connecting or
throughput. Purchased from NewEgg
Posted: Mon 16 Mar 2015, 17:28
by spongedaddy
Excellent -- thanks for this.
I just downloaded the latest Slacko 5.7 and it doesn't see my TRENDnet usb. Will probably be ordering one of the edimax's today.
Posted: Mon 16 Mar 2015, 18:20
by rcrsn51
spongedaddy wrote:I just downloaded the latest Slacko 5.7 and it doesn't see my TRENDnet usb.
Please identify the full model name of your adapter. There is probably a driver for it.
Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] OK (tahrpup 6.0 on HP G60)
Posted: Thu 19 Mar 2015, 13:41
by hapless_user
Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] i
OK ! using tahrpup 6.0 and lxtahr on HP G60 laptop
Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak] [8086:0084]
• Kernel Driver: iwlwifi
• Memory Used: 68.49 KB
• Path: /lib/modules/3.14.20/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko
• Driver Version: in-tree:
• Description: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi driver for Linux
Puppy asked me to confirm as it is not on the list as being wpa compliant so being a good "master" I am here to say it works fine on my wpa-tkip network
(I haven't tried it with a hidden network yet)
Posted: Wed 25 Mar 2015, 22:02
by spongedaddy
rcrsn51 wrote:spongedaddy wrote:I just downloaded the latest Slacko 5.7 and it doesn't see my TRENDnet usb.
Please identify the full model name of your adapter. There is probably a driver for it.
It's a TRENDnet TEW624UB (wireless N, if that makes a difference). I went to their website and it looks like they just have drivers for Win and Mac.
Posted: Wed 25 Mar 2015, 22:20
by rcrsn51
There are several versions of your TRENDnet TEW624UB, based on different chipsets. But they should all be detected by Slacko 5.7. So I suspect that the problem is with firmware, which often occurs in Slacko.
Plug in the adapter and run the command: lsusb.
Identify the vendor:product ID codes. They may be 0bda:8174 or 20f4:624d.