New versions stopped supporting my wifi card

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doglover
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New versions stopped supporting my wifi card

Post by doglover »

Hello. I love Puppy for many of my older computers.
On my Dell D520 laptop, versions from xenial backwards supported my wifi card out of the box.
Jammy and after do not support it, and even trying to install the b43 drivers from the list doesn't work, wifi adapter still not recognized.
Is there some way I can transfer something from the older versions to make it work, or something like that?
On older versions of Ubuntu I would hook up to wired and install b43-fwcutter and other stuff and run those and then it would work but I assume that Ubuntu solution won't work on Puppy?
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Re: New versions stopped supporting my wifi card

Post by ozsouth »

@doglover - would you please run the following tests in a terminal & post results:

lspci -nn | grep etwork (that starts with a lowercase L & has pipe symbol in middle, usually shift & \ keys)

then with terminal maximised, run:

dmesg | grep irmware

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