As soon as I booted the cd, puppy informed me that no network connection was available and offered the available options for this laptop. From there on it was only necessary to follow the screens and enter the required information.
I started the firewall in the default configuration, and chose firefox 5.01 for a browser.
Post back how it goes.
Still no love from Puppy as far as internet goes. First it tells me my wireless adapter is a Realtek, but it's not. Then I click through a maze of setup boxes and it eventually recognizes that my adapter is an Intel. More setup boxes appear, most of which I have no idea what it's asking me, and no matter what combination I click when I scan for networks a box pops telling me something failed. Not that it sees connections and not that it doesn't see connections. Just that something failed. It's far too novice user unfriendly, and a giant pain to have to close Puppy so I can open WIndows so I can surf the web for information. With Ubuntu all I had to do was click the connections icon and enter the key for that network and I'm connected. I appreciate the help, but Ubuntu works fine for me. Puppy needs to be euthanized
Sorry it didn't work for you.
Realtek is your audio card/driver.