Puppy and Fujitsu E7010 with PCMCIA internet

[doglover]

I think I had this in the wrong area, so moved it here.

Hello. First I want to thank you for Puppy Linux. It just works for me.
I am using it on a Fujitsu E7010 laptop with Pentium 4, 512 MB of RAM, and wireless internet using a Belkin PCMCIA F5D7011 wifi adapter that is a Broadcom b43 device.
Puppy is the only distribution that I have tried that boots properly and can access the internet every time out of the box using the wifi, and I think I have tried all or almost all of the lightweight distros intended for older machines.
Well, actually, it is only the Ubuntu flavors. The slackware flavors won't recognize the adapter.
And it has been a bit of a journey too, not always easy. I will explain in a subsequent email.
On the computer I currently have multiple frugal installs up to Jammy 22, and all seem to work OK, more or less.

So, for now, thanks again.
IMF

[bigpup]

WIFI hardware support is the one weak spot in Puppy Linux.
There is no way for all possible needed software, for all possible WIFI hardware, to be in a 300 to 500 MB Puppy ISO.
Plus WIFI hardware is constantly changing.
Do try to have what is needed for the most common WIFI hardware.

So, if WIFI hardware is not supported in a Puppy version.
Probably needs the firmware and or driver added for the specific hardware.

No Puppy version is released able to work on every possible computer.

That is why there is always several Puppy versions to choose from to try.