Can't connect to Internet on Puppy Linux. I have Acer 5735-4624 with AR5B91
I Can't connect to Internet on Puppy Linux. I have Acer Aspire 5735-4624 with a AR5B91 wireless network adaptor. I tried ndiswrapper with a windows driver but it didn't work. Help!
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The command "ifconfig" will give the current status of your network connections. Let's start there. If you can check ndiswrapper and ifconfig, that will help. |
I tried to use ndiswrapper to load the netathw.inf driver, but I still couldn't get on the internet. It didn't detect any new interface.
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What is the output of ndiswrapper -l?
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The first time I tried ndiswrapper -l, it said,"
ls: cannot access /etc/ndiswrapper: No such file or directory." So then I installed netathw with ndiswrapper -i netathw.inf. Then I tried ndiswrapper -l again and it said, "netathw : driver installed device (168C:002A) present." But I still can't get on the internet even with the netathw driver installed. |
login as root
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ndiswrapper -i driver.inf Code:
ndiswrapper -l Code:
ndiswrapper -m Code:
modprobe ndiswrapper |
I tried
ndiswrapper -i netathw.inf ndiswrapper -l ndiswrapper -m modprobe ndiswrapper but that didn't work either. |
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What have you done after these commands? Do you have an extra interface? Did you configured the interface? |
My internet didn't work. I tried that stuff, but I still couldn't get connected to the internet. When I tried to configure the network or whatever, It didn't detect any new devices.
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are you sure you used the correct window driver?
Take a look at http://global.acer.com/support/download.htm or http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers...k/as_5730.html try the driver for XP, vista driver is known not to work with ndiswrapper |
I tried the drivers for xp and vista and they both didn't work. I went to
http://global.acer.com/support/download.htm and http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers...k/as_5730.html and tried those drivers but they didn't work either. I don't think there's any way for me to connect to the internet on Puppy Linux. I might just have to use Ubuntu. |
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I popped Puppy on a USB stick and booted it, pulled down the drivers for the AR5B91 off the Acer website. These are for the Vista version: Quote:
Everything is associated, but in the box's mind, it isn't turned "on." I couldn't find any official XP drivers, and the non-official drivers I found gave: "forcing parameter MapRegisters from 256 to 64" x many. ndiswrapper -l lists it as present, but the device still does not come up, and is not listed in iwconfig/ifconfig. Any ideas? Thanks much, --fl0at |
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