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Thanks to all for the analysis and suggestions! Before I read the most recent comments, I booted into Bionic and tried using Vdiswrapper on the bcmdhd64.INF file I found in a subdirectory of /mnt/mmcblk1p3/Windows/WinSxS; however, that failed with some kind of error (that I failed to record, sorry ...

When you say it hangs "during boot setting up network services" do you mean that it has never boots to the desktop or do you mean that after setting up the network with one of the network connection programmes it hangs trying to make the connection? I have never had a computer "hang" during the ...

Is this the specs of this computer? Asus X205T Specification Windows 8.1 64bit 1.3Ghz Intel Atom “Bay Trail-T” Z3735 processor(2MB Cache, 4 cores, 4 threads, 1.33GHz base clock, 1.83GHz Turbo) 2GB of DDR3L RAM and 32GB internal storage 2 USB 2.0 ports, Bluetooth 4.0, micro HDMI port and WiFi con ...

bigpup wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 10:26 pm

up to the point of "Setting up services (network_" and then hangs.

How long did you let it stay at trying to do this?

I have seen this take some time before it continues the boot process.

I let it sit a couple of hours before shutting it down.

@wmmiller Hello and :welcome: to the forum! Thanks! What does the old Asus X205T netbook have for network devices? I'm not sure exactly what you're asking or how to find out; what I see from poking around the network settings in Windows is "Broadcom 802.11abgn Wireless SDIO adapter". Is that what ...

This is my first attempt at using Puppy Linux or, actually, being a sysadmin, although I've been using Unix and Linux variants for over 30 years. I have an old Asus X205T netbook that I'm trying to use with FossaPup64 9.5. I downloaded the ISO file and installed it on a flash drive using Rufus 4.1 ...