OscarTalks, thanks for the moral support! To be fair I didn't elaborate on what I had done about the blacklisting. I actually used the Boot Manager. However, I checked and it did insert the lines for b43legacy and ssb in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf as you have suggested. When I reboot, the lines ...

I could really do with some help with this. After searching around I found that some people have fudged this by putting a script in rc.local. I then used some trial-and-error to come up with something that worked based on the instructions about using the command line. In Wary 5.5, the following work...

I'm still not out of the woods with this. Although, I get a good WiFi connection with ndiswrapper I can't get it to "stick" so that it sets itself up automatically at boot time. When I put B43legacy on the blacklist in Wary 5.5 it reasserts itself at boot up. When I rmmod it, I can't just ...

When I received your last message I had been pursuing the option of using b43-fwcutter to extract the driver. So, when you gave me the website that had the drive already extracted I thought I would take a short cut and give it a go. Unfortunately, when I went through the set up procedure, removing t...

Thank you both for your suggestions. I have been pursuing the b43-legacy route first as suggested by peebee. I had been using netwiz but I have now tried both netwiz and Frisbee by trying Slacko instead of Wary (both 5.5). Frisbee gets me a little further - I get a flaky connection that alternates b...

I have installed Puppy Wary 5.5 on a CD and use it live with a Compaq Presario 3070US laptop. The wireless card is BCM4306 v2. When I use the connection wizard, it finds the card on wlan0 and seems to pick the right driver (b43legacy) and apparently work OK. After the first stage, it says that Puppy...

Karl, Thanks. I think I have worked it out. The shut down stopped at the message: Shutting down PCMCIA services: cards pcmcia rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core However, the next message, which appeared five and a half minutes later gave the clue: find: '/root/network/STORAGE--public/mnt-point': Host is dow...

I had a look at these and I can understand what is going on in general terms but the scripts are in a language that is completely foreign to me. I did say I was new to all this. So, basically I don't know where to start. Is there any way to get progress during shutdown sent to the screen as each of ...

I am new to Linux but, surprisingly, I have managed to get Puppy up and running very quickly. I am using Slacko 5.4 from a USB stick on a Dell Mini 9 notebook. It all seems to work but takes an exceptionally long time to shut down. It sits for about 6 minutes on the screen that says, "Slacko Pu...

Mick Thanks for the reply to my earlier post about turning pequalizer on and off. I have been playing around with things since and may have come up with a solution. If I select my sound card in Pmusic: Preferences > Playback instead of the default "auto" setting, it says that this disables...

This is a really useful feature. However, I don't want to use it all the time. I have a high quality USB DAC that I use for audio and when I have good quality recordings I want to be able to send the music file directly to the USB audio without going through the equalizer or any mixers etc. Is it po...