Ok so I now have a connection without wep I feel I should try to put some security on. I get the feeling WPA is better anyway. thanks for your help guys, I'll play with that later. (if you have any specific recomendations about security now, I guess they wouldnt do any harm, but I guess that's ...

hey, so I have now got 4.2 (retro), but basically had the same problem I decided I like the feel of puppy enough to try another driver. (and it's good to know there is help available, thanks guys) A struggle being in china is that it is not very easy to get hold of wireless cards other than tp-link ...

for accuracy purposes this is what I have been doing I click connect, get the "Internet Connestion Wizard Select Internet by network or wireless lan it gives me 2 options ath0 - Wireless - ath_pci - pci:Atheros Communications Ar5005g 802.11 abg NIC eth0 - Ethernet 3c59x - pci: 3Com Tornado I select ...

it can scan for a network, ( and finds all the wireless devices around.

but when I set up the profile, and click use profile it runs a test which fails.

but if after this I click on auto DCHP and it gives me an IP address, but that seems to have no use.

what does that mean?

Ok, thanks that looks like it should help.

I'll do my best and get back to you as soon as I have tried the above.

... thanks for your response But you didn't answer any of the questions asked by the people who are trying to help you! :? I sooo did, I went through every question asked and answered it. It was spread over two posts. ( I thought I had put the thanks in the wrong place, it was meant as a thanks for ...

pppoe worked, I got to that through the network wizard, but that was just plugging the comp direct into the router. I also tried plugging the ethernet into the router, which had the same kind of effect, just with ethernet. said it was connected, but it was only pretending. I couldnt even access 192 ...

I figured the type of card wasnt impotant, as I knew I had the working driver. Feeling the test fail then success was more important. heres my best attempt at these details Which puppy version? 4.0 What type of use? liveCD/frugal/full install? live cd Which network card/wired/wireless? wireless tp ...

HI, so I have been using puppy for 3 days now, I have it running from a boot disk, and I like it lots, I can get online via the pppoe thing, which is what I am doing now. I have a "fast" router, with which I can access the internet in XP. I have installed the driver for my wireless card and am using ...