With Puppy 2.17.1, I think I'm even closer to getting wireless working - driver installs, network scan finds my wireless router, dhcp says successful, but still no internet access.
The details:
PC EPIA VIA 5000
Puppy 2.17.1 CD multisession
D-Link DWL-G122 ver. B1 (ralink 2570 chipset) USB wireless adapter
Here is the ifconfig & iwconfig output:
and the rausb0wireless file in /etc# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
rausb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:95:87:1F:6B
inet addr:169.254.197.87 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:65223 (63.6 KiB) TX bytes:936 (936.0 B)
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
rausb0 RT2500USB WLAN ESSID:"Livebox-BE88" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Bit Rate=11 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:F974-D783-XXXX-XXXX-59AC-385C-86 Security mode:open
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level:-120 dBm Noise level:-99 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
#
Can anyone see anything obviously wrong?#Configure the wireless interface
echo "Configuring wireless interface rausb0"
ifconfig rausb0 up
iwconfig rausb0 essid "Livebox-BE88" mode managed ap 00:19:7D:24:9E:40 key F974D783XXXXXXXX59AC385C86
I've never been able to use wireless with puppy before as I could never get a driver for the DWL-G122 to load. With 2.17.1, the driver is installed automatically so it's obviously recognising the G122 & the network setup wizard works perfectly, but I still have no internet access.
The USB wireless adapter works fine in a Windows pc adjacent to my linux box, so hardware & signal strengths are all OK. Puppy has always worked fine using an ethernet connetion via eth0.
Any help greatly appreciated, I really want wireless to work!
TIA