Web surfing from a Belkin USB wireless router in puppy linux?
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I have tryed to do this, but just installing Linux and all I do not know much about the system. How would I install a Belkin wireless "G" router in puppy linux?
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Post Edited (microcontrolled) : 2/15/2010 10:22:53 PM GMT
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Post Edited (microcontrolled) : 2/15/2010 10:22:53 PM GMT
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- Stephen
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- Stephen
If the dillo browser is open with Puppy help when you boot, close it for now.
Click where the start button would be on Windows.
Click SETUP ... it's near the top of the start menu on mine.
Notice Linux-Firewall Wizard (I use it most of the time)
Click Network Wizard
If you are wired, you want ETH0 configure (ethernet)
Info on how to configure ethernet is common enough that somebody knows or you can google it.
You can google "What's my IP address?", The Mask address is something like 255.255.255.0,
Your router manual if you have one has its address, something like 192.???.0.1, and how to setup a connection.
If you are wireless, you want ATH0 configure*
Click 'scan' to see the wireless network signals
(if you see a few and don't know which is yours, try each one, starting with the first or the strongest)
If your router has passwords and encryption (wireless) choose the encryption type and
the router name and key, and if there is an autoconnect option, choose template, and if you use
encryption, unclick "open" and click "restricted". Then click OK or done.
You should be able to get online with DHCP, clicking that.That automatically gives you an IP address.
If you never had to set up the internet connection before, then I gave you too much information; DHCP or
your IP address is enough.
When asked if you want to save the configuration, don't, until next time, if you get online,
but instead write down what you did that worked.
You click the BROWSER icon and get a mozilla, and you're online if the mozilla site or google comes up.
If you can't get google, try the network wizard again.
I assume BELKIN is a wireless dongle. If there is no driver for it, and network wizard keeps saying try a
different "module" and no networks found, then maybe look at the drivers and see if you can find a wireless
dongle that matches one of those drivers. They are very cheap now like a USB flash drive. But I would
be surprised if you downloaded a new puppy and it had no Belkin driver. If it asks you to load modules
then it probably doesn't though, it usually finds what works.
Some stuff you probably could figure out by yourself:
If your computer has an ethernet (NIC) jack, you shouldn't have any problem plugging it into the router
or modem that connects to your ISP. I haven't been on dialup in a long time so I don't know exactly
what to do if you are, but there are not too many different things to try. If you get online by wire,
you can always download more puppies and use the "burn iso to CD" program in Multimedia in Start Menu
and make all the different version puppy discs you can find, the latest ones would be 4 point something,
at least. BELKIN is common, so there should be a driver for it. I'll try to find out which one.
Some stuff I probably said before:
If your computer only has a burner, I recommend removing the Puppy disc after it boots, so you don't
burn anything on it that you don't want. I prefer to save stuff on USB flash plugs. If your computer has
a CD ROM drive then you can just leave puppy in there and not worry about it. Puppy uses the CD as
a hard drive USUALLY, but its my own preference to not save stuff on the same drive as the software.
If you install software, you might as well burn a new CD with that software using the START-SETUP-REMASTER CD
feature. The PET icon installs software from the internet easily, in RAM, until you either shut down and
choose SAVE (on the puppy CD) or use REMASTER. Rebooting by ctrl-alt-delete , reset, or power switch
clears out everything you didn't intentionally save. If you download stuff, small stuff can go in My Documents,
big stuff that doesn't fit in memory can go on a USB drive, also, copy My Documents to USB drive then
rename it to when and what it is. To access the USB drive, click Drives icon and "mount" the USB drive
which is probably called sdc or sdd.
I often use too many words to make easy things look hard. I sure hope you don't have a 'hard' internet connection.
There's a Puppy Linux forum just like this one, search there for easier answers.
Anyway, doesn't it look just like XP? And doesn't it setup and work like 1000 times faster and easier?
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Post Edited (VIRAND) : 2/16/2010 8:32:47 AM GMT
With just a little more detail (like what the physical connection is, the router model number and version) we might well be able to help, or at least prevent you spending hours on a fruitless effort.
The manufacturers of wireless chipsets, and often router chipsets seem to be very reluctant to divulge any details about how to actually talk to their devices. Unfortunate, but it means those of us that don't use windows shop a bit more wisely before throwing money at a manufacturer who repeatedly ignores requests for information. (Broadcom I'm looking at you).
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You only ever need two tools in life. If it moves and it shouldn't use Duct Tape. If it does not move and it should use WD40.
P.S. It claims 5 second boot at startup but I've clocked it at around 41 seconds every time I've booted, at least 5 times, and I do have a valid save location, so what's up? Windows boots faster! (but this doesn't crash...)
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SFS files take several extra seconds to load, because they are like a data history file and not
compact like the OS itself. I may be inaccurate, but that's how it appears to me.
I think there is an option to not load the sfs files. By pushing maybe F2 when it says boot, it
gives options to immediately type "puppy" and command different methods of booting from a list,
including ignoring saved data. Puppy is a great hobby linux, and as I recall you can even write programs
for it in BASIC, although I'm not sure if those programs are only scripts (batch) or whole GUI apps too.
I've found some BASIC code in Puppy, and it is kind of classic looking, like DOS BASICs, not VB.
It would be awesome to write new internet apps in BASIC. I will try to find out if it has been done with Puppy.
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