Greatness.

I've been planning for some time to dabble in programming but there are so many different things out there I didn't know which way to point myself. I now know that Puppy is that direction. I believe in this project. Linux is awesome. Ubuntu is where I got my start and I thought that'd be a good plac...

NoScript in tandem with Ghostery. Nothing will get through unless you want it to get through.

The best defense is to know how to tweak your browser settings. Paranoia helps.

Based on the original post of this thread, THAT'S ME! Oh how I have a hyperparanoid mind. So paranoid in fact that I don't bother with firewalls. I just trust my router and never ever EVER EVER EVER type in anything to do with bank accounts or personal info like birth dates or physical address and w...

Don't know if this'll help or not and don't know if it's been mentioned but walmart.com sells Belkin USB wireless adapters for $12.96 ($15.06 shipped Fed-Ex) that work right out of the box with Puppy. I have two older machines running on two different models of the cheapie and they use the same driv...

I had a vicious time getting my hidden wireless network going, but once I sniffed out the solution I was hiking my leg all over the internet on two machines that had been buried out in the yard . At the end of it, the fix was so simple that it was nothing to bark about . I love Wary Puppy and look f...

Well it turns out that the network manager in Wary Puppy 5.1.3 LTS works great. I swithced my network back to hidden but with one major change - switched from WEP to WPA security and BLAMMO! In less than an hour I had two machines installed to hd and surfing with reboots to make sure they'd keep the...

Thanks for the suggestion, but I was reading there it said 5.2.8 was for i686. I'm not certain of this, but isn't the difference between i686 and i386 that one is for a user machine and one is for a server machine? Please be patient. I'm pretty tech savvy, but new to this. I fully intend to learn wh...

Do you think going up to Puppy 5.2.5 would do the trick?

I'm certain about the wireless device working. The icon at the bottom of the desktop shows it as connected and the indicator in Seamonky shows it as online as well.

Yes. Fresh install on formatted sda1. IDEA: I'm looking in the bootmanager and thinking if there's a .sfs file for my "saved" connection, and a file for test and auto dhcp, maybe I can place them in order in the boot configuration to load at startup? It might matter to mention that there a...

# GRUB configuration file '/boot/grub/menu.1st'. # generated by 'grubconfig'. Mon Aug 22 03:56:44 2011 # # The backup copy of the MBR for drive "/dev/sda' is # here'/boot/grub/mbr.sda.9053'. You can restor it like this. # dd if=/boot/grub/mbr.sda.9053 of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 # # Start GRUB g...

bigpup wrote:Please post your menu.lst.

Will do. It'll take a while since I can't get that machine online and I'll have to manually copy it keystroke by keystroke on my laptop here. BRB.

wlan0

I save it every time I touch it, hoping I'll stumble into something while wandering through the fog.

I'd like to add the network manager from Ubuntu, but it's gonna take some research on my part. I'm gonna study programing too and see if I can just write something myself.

I'm using Wary 5.1.3 on a full install. It's a 10 gig partition (ext3 file system) with a 2 gig swap partition. I changed # timeout = 30 to timeout = 0 so it'd boot quicker. I also added "Puppy" in front of "Linux" in the first line where it shows up. Where are you doing these c...

If I'm missing something in the settings to make it load the connection at start up, nobody's been able to point me to it yet. The network wizard promises to load it at the next start up, but the network wizard lies. What I'd like to do is find a way to tell Puppy to do the following at boot: load L...

That's my bad. I thought it was a different topic since I'm looking for a programming approach to solve the problem. I'll try to delete this one and carry the question over to the other thread.

If I'm missing something in the settings to make it load the connection at start up, nobody's been able to point me to it yet. The network wizard promises to load it at the next start up, but the network wizard lies. What I'd like to do is find a way to tell Puppy to do the following at boot: load L...

Here is a step by step for setting up wireless connection. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65346 Also, check the proxy connection for your browser and set it to No Proxy, or disable Auto Detection of Proxy. That's different for each browser, but for Firefox it is Edit -> Preference...

The connection wizard says it will save the commeciton settings to a .sns file, but it doesn't. If I could get it to do that I think I'd have it licked.

**CORRECTION UPDATE** I just got Seamonkey working. Had to do the old test/auto DHCP/test/auto DHCP. I don't know how that makes the difference but it does. So with a working browser and a good connection, how can I download the whatever-it-is that makes Ubuntu remember connections, how to use them,...