I have few friends in Japan (like none) so I'll have to run puppy
linux another way. Thank you again for all your help and advice
and I wish you continuing success with wakepup development.

whittycat

> You seem to have a problematic controller. Here is my lsmod: <snip> > ehci_hcd is the usb2 module, uhci_hcd and ohci_hcd are usb1. ehci_hcd is loaded, it just doesn't show up with 'lsmod | grep usb' because I do not have usbcore. There is nothing wrong with the USB 2 controller. You can see from /...

I wonder ... I looked at what Windows XP says about the USB controller and it says 'Standard USB host controller', again with no manufacturer. So if USB is controlled by the OS and when I boot from Freedos there is no OS present there is no USB either. Is that what the problem is?

whittycat

Pretty sure. It is plugged in to the port not via a hub. This is lsmod | grep -i usb usbhid 45088 0 usb_storage 87616 1 scsi_mod 152880 3 sd_mod,libata,usb_storage ide_core 147584 4 ide_cd,usb_storage,generic,amd74xx (which is not very useful) and /proc/bus/usb/devices includes this: T: Bus=02 Lev=0...

I changed the filenames and the stick now contains Volume in drive H has no label. Volume Serial Number is 0CC1-D1FA Directory of H:\ 21/04/2007 20:27 0 USBFLASH 06/04/2007 08:58 2,048 boot.cat 06/04/2007 08:58 960 boot.msg 06/04/2007 08:58 10,648 isolinux.bin 06/04/2007 08:58 141 isolinux.cfg 06/04...

Thanks for all that. It gives me quite a bit to think about, so I'll need some time. Oh, btw if I look at the files on the stick with a windows XP command window the filenames are all lower case except USBFLASH which is upper case. I'll make the changes you suggest.

whittycat

> First of all, don't use Puppy 2.01 with an ntfs hard drive. I don't have a ntfs drive anywhere. > I'm using wkpup2x to boot 2.15CE on a 2GB USB stick through a USB 2 port I have USB 2 ports on the PC I am testing this with.(Later the idea is to use it on a laptop which will have USB 1.) What is wk...

I have a laptop with a dodgy hard disk so it seemed a good idea to run puppy on a USB pendrive and use wakepup to start it. I read the instructions carefully and 1 d/l the puppy iso and copied it to the Windows XP disk 2 d/l isobuster and copied that to the Windows disk 3 fire up Windows XP and form...