Search found 564 matches

by Brown Mouse
Tue 16 Jun 2020, 11:34
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi Buster Raspup
Replies: 223
Views: 96659

Has anyone managed to get 'CUPS' Printing working?

I've tried a few minor things including disabling firewall etc.but all I get from any browser is as shown in the attached screenshot.

TIA for any pointers.
by Brown Mouse
Sat 02 May 2020, 16:35
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Fossapup64-9.0.3 RC
Replies: 254
Views: 425414

I couldn’t get text documents to open when clicked on.Even when setup with ‘Default Application Chooser’ set to ‘Geany’ the text is not displayed.

Looking very good.

Thank you for all your hard graft.
by Brown Mouse
Thu 19 Mar 2020, 11:45
Forum: Hardware
Topic: What to do with motherboard that just beeps at me?
Replies: 14
Views: 5049

Did you check the GPU out and assuming it has one?
Disconnect it and try running it from the on-board graphics,first changing the settings in BIOS.
by Brown Mouse
Fri 28 Feb 2020, 10:20
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: EasyPup version 2.3.1, released June 6, 2020
Replies: 171
Views: 130025

Re: Internet connection

Sir I have wire static IP configured through network-manager -applet. However, no connection at all. I have changed automatic to manual and provided static id address. Likewise I have done through nmtui also. (through Network Manger menu). After googling the puppy forum, i got the location of the c...
by Brown Mouse
Thu 27 Feb 2020, 13:42
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi Buster Raspup
Replies: 223
Views: 96659

Unable to get a normal wired DHCP connection on my Pi3 - works with everything else?? All usual options tried. Not sure how the Pi3 differs from a Pi3b which is what I'm running but I disconnected from wifi which is my normal connection method and tested using from wired eth0 using 'Barry's Simple ...
by Brown Mouse
Mon 24 Feb 2020, 13:18
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: EasyPup version 2.3.1, released June 6, 2020
Replies: 171
Views: 130025

thinkpadfreak wrote:Hello.


2. Some settings of LibreOffice are not accessible. See the attached picture. The items within the red square are not shown.
Try double clicking on them.
by Brown Mouse
Sun 23 Feb 2020, 12:37
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: EasyPup version 2.3.1, released June 6, 2020
Replies: 171
Views: 130025

Updated to the latest,first checking it out before adding my existing save file.All upgraded successfully using my personal settings.
The latest Seamonkey seems fine although I had no issues with the previous version.

All running ok so far.
by Brown Mouse
Fri 21 Feb 2020, 12:38
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: EasyPup version 2.3.1, released June 6, 2020
Replies: 171
Views: 130025

Testing from a P4 3ghz dual core box,4gb DDR3 with a frugal install on a Kingston SSD. Had to remove the popup from startup at boot regarding pctemp as my machine lacks sensors. One thing missing for me is MTP.The one from the PPM doesn’t work and neither does gmtp. It all works now after adding th...
by Brown Mouse
Fri 21 Feb 2020, 08:15
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: EasyPup version 2.3.1, released June 6, 2020
Replies: 171
Views: 130025

Testing from a P4 3ghz dual core box,4gb DDR3 with a frugal install on a Kingston SSD. Had to remove the popup from startup at boot regarding pctemp as my machine lacks sensors. One thing missing for me is MTP.The one from the PPM doesn’t work and neither does gmtp. It all works now after adding thr...
by Brown Mouse
Thu 20 Feb 2020, 17:55
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: No sound devices detected
Replies: 9
Views: 1215

Mike Walsh wrote:


i'm surprised you're able to get Bionic booting at all from a P4.
I have a P4 3ghz dual core and it runs every Puppy I’ve used or tested including Bionic 64 and its still fast. :lol:
by Brown Mouse
Sat 15 Feb 2020, 09:41
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi Buster Raspup
Replies: 223
Views: 96659

Still running this on a daily basis,minimum 12 hours a day on my RPI 3b without any issues. :D I have been using a swap partition up til now but decided to do a comparison up against a swapfile. The pupswap tool in Puppy Setup wont allow me to select a destination to create a swapfile? I used an alt...
by Brown Mouse
Sun 19 Jan 2020, 15:49
Forum: Bugs ( Submit bugs )
Topic: (Solved) Pupsave backup bug in Bionicpup64
Replies: 7
Views: 4638

The same bug is present in Raspberry Pi Buster Raspup.
by Brown Mouse
Wed 01 Jan 2020, 12:49
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi Buster Raspup
Replies: 223
Views: 96659

Lobster wrote:about to try the Raw zip file :roll: :)

... wait ...
raspup-8.2.0-abcd12345.zip does not seem to be on downloads or iblio?
It’s here Lobster.Could be what we were after :D

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/ar ... 8.2.0/raw/
by Brown Mouse
Wed 01 Jan 2020, 12:15
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi Buster Raspup
Replies: 223
Views: 96659

Lobster wrote:about to try the Raw zip file :roll: :)

... wait ...
raspup-8.2.0-abcd12345.zip does not seem to be on downloads or iblio?
Afraid after 4 hours of complete turmoil ,I’ve thrown in the towel . :D
by Brown Mouse
Wed 01 Jan 2020, 10:35
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi Buster Raspup
Replies: 223
Views: 96659

Still scratching my head!

Extracted the zip file in exactly the same way as the last few Raspup test versions but I’m only seeing one extracted file?
by Brown Mouse
Wed 20 Nov 2019, 17:06
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi Buster Raspup
Replies: 223
Views: 96659

Still running great. :D Couple of minor issues to point out. I installed Hexchat from the PPM which runs now having checked the SSL boxes but I get this message up beforehand '* Running IRC as root is stupid! You should create a User Account and use that to login'. Also,after making a Pupsave Backup...
by Brown Mouse
Thu 14 Nov 2019, 14:06
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi Buster Raspup
Replies: 223
Views: 96659

@ Brown Mouse Ok, the init script is trying to work but there seems to be an error with IPv4 (bbwireless doesn't support IPv6 just yet) so I need to investigate that. May be something to do with country codes that doesn't affect Australia. Try setting your wireless country code? I saw something abo...
by Brown Mouse
Thu 14 Nov 2019, 09:35
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi Buster Raspup
Replies: 223
Views: 96659

01micko wrote:Brown Mouse

Can you show me the contents of /tmp/iface?

The script looks in order.
This is all that's showing.

wlan0
by Brown Mouse
Thu 14 Nov 2019, 09:32
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi Buster Raspup
Replies: 223
Views: 96659

@01micko Failed /var/log/messages Nov 14 09:21:21 puppypc2488 syslog.info syslogd started: BusyBox v1.31.0 Nov 14 09:21:21 puppypc2488 kern.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.31.0 (2019-08-05 23:31:11 +08) Nov 14 09:21:21 puppypc2488 kern.info kernel: [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU ...
by Brown Mouse
Thu 14 Nov 2019, 09:06
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi Buster Raspup
Replies: 223
Views: 96659

'Wireless network tool bbwireless',goes through all the motions but doesn't survive after a save at shutdown and reboot. @Brown Mouse Can you perform some tests please? Type bbwireless,sh -h The first thing to try is the 'reconnect' option bbwireless.sh -r If that works, then try bbwireless.sh -d b...