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by cornbreadly
Mon 06 Oct 2008, 17:58
Forum: Cutting edge
Topic: Improved Network Wizard (and rc.network)
Replies: 595
Views: 360682

please ignore double post... sorry
by cornbreadly
Mon 06 Oct 2008, 17:58
Forum: Cutting edge
Topic: Improved Network Wizard (and rc.network)
Replies: 595
Views: 360682

I am having some newb issues with 4.1rc and i was referred to this thread for some help. I have an Airlink101 AWLC4130 wireless card (Atheros AR5212 chipset) that i am trying to get working. I upgraded to 4.1rc from macpuppy 4.0 because 4.1rc supports the madwifi .94 drivers and puppy 4.0 does not. ...
by cornbreadly
Sat 04 Oct 2008, 21:20
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to use Airlink101 wireless card in Puppy 4?
Replies: 9
Views: 4159

Ethernet is connected. Checked the cord and the web works under my system rescue disk browser. Under 4.1 rc, in Network Manager, only one connection shows up as ath0(using ath_pci) With macpuppy, 3 showed up. ath0, wlan0, eth0 While in 4.1rc, i went to System->Hardinfo and got 3 results under networ...
by cornbreadly
Sat 04 Oct 2008, 19:22
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to use Airlink101 wireless card in Puppy 4?
Replies: 9
Views: 4159

There are 2 issues I would like to receive help for: 1) No ethernet in puppy 4.1 rc. I checked this thread for bug reports and didn't see anyone else with this issue... Occam's razor implicates user error. What could I be doing wrong to loss the most basic of internet connections? 2) Wireless still ...
by cornbreadly
Sat 04 Oct 2008, 03:26
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to use Airlink101 wireless card in Puppy 4?
Replies: 9
Views: 4159

Downloaded and burnt puppy 4.1rc. When I attempted to use the network wizard, it only recognized the ath_pci module and failed to load the ethernet module I was using in macpuppy 4.00. I attempted to set up the wireless with some success. I was able to find my home network after the scan but I was n...
by cornbreadly
Fri 03 Oct 2008, 12:17
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to use Airlink101 wireless card in Puppy 4?
Replies: 9
Views: 4159

I looked and looked and found nothing other than the autorun.inf I even checked hidden files even though I don't think a company would profit any more by sneaking files around on a driver CD that is read only. I looked up some more about the set KERNALPATH thing... This is from madwifi.org : For Deb...
by cornbreadly
Thu 02 Oct 2008, 12:14
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: How to use Airlink101 wireless card in Puppy 4?
Replies: 9
Views: 4159

How to use Airlink101 wireless card in Puppy 4?

I am having a few issues getting wireless up in a new puppy 4.0 frugal install I have a well supported wireless card for Linux that isn't supported out of the box by puppy. (Airlink101 awlc4130: madwifi link ). The madwifi site said compiling it would produce extra modules (ex:another ath_pci) so I ...
by cornbreadly
Sat 21 Jun 2008, 19:18
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Usein existing ubuntu installation for wireless set-up
Replies: 1
Views: 1204

Usein existing ubuntu installation for wireless set-up

I have had a bit of a problem getting puppy and wireless to play together nicely. Right now I have an older laptop running xubuntu on my network playing effortlessly and carefree with an athereos chipset (ar5123 is what xubuntu says it is) Puppy and the ath_itl module that I attempt to load doesn't ...