tempestuous: Thank you for your message and willingness to assist.
In reply to your message, ROX shows that my
iwl3945 file contains 65k.
Here are the steps I followed in trying to set up an internet connection using
Internet Connection Wizard in the
Setup menu, along with the results of each step:
1. Launch Internet Connection Wizard under Setup menu
[Result = Wizard display appears]
2. On Connection tab, clicked on
Wired or wireless LAN
[Network Connection Wizard appears]
3. Clicked on
Network Wizard (Dougal), the third option
[
Puppy Network Wizard appears; shows both "eth0" and "wlan0" buttons]
4. Clicked on
wlan0 button
[Configure network interface wlan0 window appears, with the message "OK, let's try to configure wlan0."]
5. Clicked
Wireless button
[
Puppy Network Wizard appears, with the
Scan button, among others]
6. Clicked
Scan
[Puppy Network Wizard warning window appears, showing a red circle with a white bar in its center. Shows the following message: "Error! Failed to raise interface wlan0. Failed command was: ipconfig wlan0 up. Error returned was: ipconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory."]
7. Clicked
OK
[
Puppy Network Wizard warning window appears, this time with a yellow triangle containing an exclamation point, and the message "No networks were detected. Would you like to try and scan again?"]
8. Clicked
Retry
[Briefly a scanning progress bar window appeared, and then displayed
Puppy Network Wizard warning window, with a yellow triangle and exclamation point, this time with the following message: "No networks were detected. Maybe your router is turned off? Maybe there is a Wireless switch on your laptop that needs to be turned on?" [FYI: the wireless switch is turned on]
9. Clicked
OK
[Displayed the
Puppy Network Wizard window with the
Scan button that I note in step 5 above.]
10. Stuck and don't know what to do from here. I clicked the red "X" to close the window and same for subsequent two windows until the wizards closed.
Next, I entered the Code you suggested:
Code:
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cd /root
dmesg > dmesg.txt
gzip dmesg.txt
This returned nothing. I have a command prompt ("
#") and a blinking cursor, but nothing else. No text to post on this forum.
(Previously, when I used an older version of Puppy on this same laptop several years ago, I never had this problem. I was able to connect to the internet with no problems. I did have to run the wizard, as noted in my step-by-step above, but it always worked. So I am utterly confused. Again, thank you for all your help on this.)