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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The version of teen puppy is 2.14 and the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">k</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ernel is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">2.6.18.1</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I ran the iwconfig and it said no wireless extentions.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Here is what came back when</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> did the same things on the breezy. It</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">was featured in the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Linux</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> format magazine. When running the iwconfig here is what comes up.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Lo no wireless extentions</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Wifi0 no wireless extentions</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Ath0 IEEE 802.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">11b ESSID:"" NICKNAME:""</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Mode:managed channel:0</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">And a whole bunch of other stuff.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#FF0000" SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">thanx</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: clug-tech-bounces@clug.ca [<A HREF="mailto:clug-tech-bounces@clug.ca">mailto:clug-tech-bounces@clug.ca</A>] On Behalf Of Gustin Johnson<BR>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:26 PM<BR>
To: CLUG Tech<BR>
Subject: Re: [Clug-tech] eeepc</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Dan Mueller wrote:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> I’m back with questions regarding my eeepc</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> For starters, I’m at a wedding on the install fest sept 20^th so I</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> cant be there.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> Can anyone give me the paint by number directions on getting my</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> wireless and wired internet connection working.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">It depends. There is not usually a single solution for all situations.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> Things like the kernel version, the tools provided by the distro, the</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">hardware itself. Lots of variables.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> The distro that seems to have some of the things I like is teen puppy</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> (except internet) so far. The 2g main drive has this loaded on it.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I have never used Puppy or its derivatives, so I am not much help here.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> I have some experience with some other small distros (eg. Damn Small</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Linux), and they all seem to have 2.4 based kernels. What this means is</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">limited support for certain devices. Particularly hit hard are Wireless</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">devices. A quick "uname -r" from the command line will tell you what</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">version you have.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> I have the eeepc with 2 g hdd.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> I also have the breezy eeepuppy on a sd card that I will try to get</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> on to the internet tonight at home. As far as I read… it should have</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> all that it takes to get this done.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Ubuntu has a fairly recent 2.6 based kernel with a couple of extra</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">drivers pre-installed. Of importance to you is the LAN atl2 driver for</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">the Attansic L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter. This is part of the default</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Ubuntu install so this should work out of the box.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">The wireless card is an atheros based device that may or not may work</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">for you out of the box. I do a lot of testing of wireless drivers so I</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">have a custom kernel on my eeePC. I can't remember if the stock Ubuntu</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">worked with that wireless device or not. Run "iwconfig" with no options</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">to see if it detects a wireless card.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">For Ubuntu, most of your issues have already been documented at the</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">following site:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><A HREF="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EeePC</A></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> Any help on the teen puppy would be appreciated.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">I have no experience with this distro, but you may need to build and</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">install the atl2 driver which can be found here:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"><A HREF="http://people.redhat.com/csnook/atl2/">http://people.redhat.com/csnook/atl2/</A></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">It looks like it is only for kernel versions 2.6.21 and up so you may be</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">in trouble with Puppy here.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Hth,</FONT></SPAN></P>
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