In Distro: tahrpup 6.0.5 (trusty tahr)
Window Manager: JWM vgit-976

it does not recognize my usb wifi dongle.

"lsusb" command finds the device that i think is the wifi adapter:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:7601 Ralink Technology, Corp.

https://pastebin.com/ZARSMt8P

I tried to load extension (an option in Network wizard) for available Ralink hardware (there is alist of hardware to select from) but none worked.

(This USB wifi dongle works ok in Lubuntu 16, in Windows XP.)

And can you not just look at it and say "It's brand xxx, model yyy", rather than saying what you 'think' it is?
And again, as you've been told many, MANY times over the years, saying things like "none worked", tells us nothing. What error(s)/message(s) do you get? Output of interface config commands? Anything at all, or do you expect us (again), to guess??

As you've been told before; read the "Question Guidelines". And since you've never come back to many of your other threads to follow up, why should we continue to try to help you?

I am sorry, i do not know the answer to that question.

You don't know the answer to what question?? Are you unable to just LOOK at the dongle, to see what it is?? Can you not look at the manual?? No error messages at all?

Why bother posting if all you can say is "I have some sort of wifi dongle that doesn't work"?? No one can help you without any useful details.

Check which driver it is using, then load that driver in tahrpup.

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That ID shows that the wireless device in question is using the MediaTek MT7601U chipset, and requires the mt7601u driver.

This driver has only been supported since kernel 4.2+. In other words, it's pretty new. Tahrpup 6.0.5 uses the 3.14.20 kernel. Therefore, that chipset is not supported by your present kernel. I also don't recognise that particular driver; AFAIK, nobody in the Puppy community has as yet had any reason to compile an 'add-on' driver for it.

You need to run a newer kernel to get support for that. Of course it'll work in 'Lubuntu 16'; it uses a far newer kernel. And in XP you have to load the driver supplied on the mini-CD. Puppy doesn't update kernels in the same way as most other Linux distros; if you want a newer kernel, you simply run a newer Puppy.

If your hardware permits it, I would suggest trying Xenialpup 7.5, with the 4.9.58 kernel. Support for the adapter should be built-in.

If, as TBOne notes, you have a 'history' of not responding to posts, or giving us any useful information, then this will be the only response you get from me. Don't expect help again; it'll just be a waste of everybody's time.

Mike.

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Mike_Walsh: please see the OP's posting history. Won't take you long to notice a pattern.

@ TBOne:-

I get the definite impression from not only this user, but many over the years, that basic forum etiquette seems to be incomprehensible to them. After all, it's only good manners to follow up and let people know what the outcome of something is.....especially if they've helped you.

It's my one pet 'niggle'.....


Mike.

Indeed. My favorites are always the posters who say they'll 'come back and update with their findings', and you never hear from them again. Until, of course, their NEXT issue, where they don't research, show effort, or answer questions.

"Tahrpup is an official community edition (CE) of Puppy Linux, built from ubuntu 14.04 LTS trusty tahr packages, 3.14.20 kernel" Now you say that it works in Lubuntu 16 so we may need to start there.
I'd go to the Ubuntu version and see what driver it is using for this chipset. Puppy is a special distro made form minimal systems but as with all distro's it doesn't supply every driver for every device.

Start by using the information you get from your lubuntu and then look at the Puppy documentation.

Some commands that help you and use are here. https://puppylinux.org/wikka/HowToWifiFromCommand


Read method 2 and three here. https://www.wikihow.com/Set-up-a-Wir...in-Puppy-Linux