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I am completely new to Puppy Linux and to every kind of Linux even. Luckily, I have figured most of it.

I have a HP Pavilion g6 laptop and Lucid Puppy 5.2.8

I saw the other posts but does lupu-528 support the Broadcom Internal Device? If not, then is there a way to install the drivers?
My main purpose is to setup an access point.

Any help is appreciated

This from a terminal and let's see what you've got:

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Thanks. That detects the Broadcom device as eth1.

Am I ready to use hostapd?

Yes.

Get hostapd from here - "Puppy as a wifi access point"
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84269
and carefully follow all setup instructions in the first post - substituting all instances of "wlan0" with "eth1" - since that's the interface created by your Broadcom device.

You may also need to tweak Puppy's firewall settings - see later in that thread.

My internet connection is ppp0.
Will the up and down commands work for me?

Probably not.
Someone tried this before, and every time they tried to add a bridge-interface for ppp0 they got an error message.
There's an explanation here -
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipe ... 05726.html

What's the exact nature of your ppp0 interface? What physical hardware is involved, and what type of service does it connect to?

It is a ZTE Reliance Netconnect+ Modem. In other words, its just a USB modem detected as ttyUSB0

Please see this link below:
http://someshblog.blogspot.in/2011/07/s ... 3g-or.html

I can't follow the instructions from Adding NAT ip rule in iptables:

Please help!!