Evening, everybody.
More wifi problems that need some assistance, I'm afraid.
I have an elderly Dell Inspiron lappie; an original 1100, from 2002. A real 'brick'; the battery pack alone must weigh more than a MacBook 'Air'.....but she's solidly built, in very good condition still, and working perfectly.
She was originally running Win XP, but back in May, I decided it was time to junk it, and look around for something to replace it with. I've been running Ubuntu 14.04 on my big desktop PC, a 2005 Compaq Presario, since April, so... I started off with trying the 'buntus out on the Dell; Ubuntu was too heavy, with Unity; Xubuntu was a little better, and Lubuntu was fine.....yet they all disagreed violently with the graphics adapter on the old girl; a 'Brookedale'-cored, Intel 'Extreme' 82845 G/GL/GE/PE/PV graphics card, and the 1024x768 display would always default to a 640x480 display, jammed up in the top left hand corner!
Well, that was no good. Nobody on the Ubuntu forums was able to help with that, so I began looking round for something else to install.....and I began exploring the world of 'micro' OSes. The Dell had a 'NetBurst'-generation Intel Celeron (PAE, but only SSE2s), and a 128k L2.....a wee bit slow. I've recently upgraded it to a 2.6 GHz P4, which has improved matters no end.....and upped the RAM from the 128 MB it came with, to its max of 1 GB.
Six weeks ago, I finally found a small OS that would give me the full display; 'TahrPup' 6.0, the latest Puppy Linux. EVERYTHING just works...perfectly (even the USB wireless adapter).
I've just tried out the live CD of SliTaz, and.....lo & behold, another OS that works perfectly with my old hardware. Since I've also replaced the original 20 GB HDD with a 40 GB item, I have plenty of space to 'play' with these 'micro' OSes, and want to install SliTaz on the old girl, too.
Which brings me to the wireless adapter. This item, a TP-Link WN725N 150 MBps single-channel 'N' adapter, plays nicely with 'TahrPup'; it did, however, ask me to load the 'rtl8188cu' module before it would allow me to configure it (although it, in fact, uses the 'rtl8192' chipset).
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/TP-LINK_TL-WN725N_v1
Is it possible to download, & install, additional kernel modules for SliTaz.....and if so, how would I go about doing this?
Any assistance with this wee problem would be VERY much appreciated.
Regards,
Mike.
