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Mike_Walsh

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Registered: 2014-12-21

Posts: 18

Yet MORE wifi woes..!

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.

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Yet MORE wifi woes..!

I need to know the usbids of the USB wifi adapter and the kernel version.

Boot into slitaz,copy/paste the output from the following commands in your reply.

[c]lsusb[/c]

[c]uname -a[/c]

bellard

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: Yet MORE wifi woes..!

Did you try http://mirror1.slitaz.org/iso/rolling/slitaz-rolling.iso and

# modprobe rtl8192cu

(you may need http://cook.slitaz.org/cooker.cgi?download=firmware-rtlwifi-20130610.tazpkg too)

Or you can test realtek module for slitaz 2.0/3.0/4.0 here: http://tank.slitaz.org/~bellard/8192cu.tgz

Mike_Walsh

Member

Registered: 2014-12-21

Posts: 18

Re: Yet MORE wifi woes..!

Thanks for taking the time to reply, guys.

With Xmas just around the corner, I'm not going to have as much time to 'play around' with SliTaz as I would like, but; I'll see what I can do as regards 'lsusb' & 'uname -a'.

@ mojo;

I'll have to rig the Dell temporarily up to ethernet, so I can get the readouts, and get them posted through to you. It'll be probably this evening, or possibly tomorrow morning.....just bear with me, please, and I'll get them to you ASAP.

@ Bellard;

The reason I went for SliTaz 4.0 in the first place, is because as far as I can tell, it's the latest STABLE release. I'm a great one for stability.....don't have the time to dig deep into the guts of my systems, and I'm quite a newcomer to Linux anyway, despite having been using these here gadgets, on & off,  since the tail end of the 70's!

However; I will give your suggestions a try at the first opportunity, and see what comes up. Cheers.

I do NOT consider myself an expert in any way, shape or form. I'm afraid you're corresponding with an old codger here, who likes plain English, and easy, step-by-step instructions..! (lol)

Regards,

Mike.

EDIT: Just thought I'd best check, and let you know; so that you both know, this is version 2.0 of the TP-Link WN-725N.

bellard

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 657

Re: Yet MORE wifi woes..!

Try this as root:

# wget http://tank.slitaz.org/~bellard/8192cu.tgz

# tar xzf 8192cu.tgz -C /

# depmod -a

# modprobe 8192cu

And

# iwconfig

Should show something...