Can't connect to Internet on Puppy Linux. I have Acer 5735-4624 with AR5B91
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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!
This isn't really too helpful in understanding the problem. From the command line, (as root, probably), the command "ndiswrapper -l" should indicate if the Windows driver is correctly installed.
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.
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.
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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