Try again. My first attempt was lost in the ether. Thank you, everyone, but nothing so far seems to address the problem. I have been using commands at the command prompt as follows: /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttySL0 57600 debug user kgundry@usol.com connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v '' AT OK ATDT93760155 CON...

Thanks for your comments but I don't think they help. The same symptoms occur with a) Puppy 1.04 starting from scratch with no pup001 so there could be nothing remaining from earlier settings, using a 3M PCMCIA plug-in modem. (This is the system that I was using when I could connect a year or more a...

Muggins and Wolf Pup. Many thanks. I downloaded and burned a CD of Puppy 3.0, and it is worse still. I was excited to note during boot-up that it actually acknowledged the presence of a modem ttySL0, and Pupdial immediately recognized its presence, both with the notice across the top (which alas is ...

Well, I give up and have to refer to the experts! Up to about a year ago, Puppy (v.1.04 at the time, I think) would dial out and connect to my ISP. Then suddenly it wouldn't. The ISP people had no explanation. I tried different (later) versions of Puppy and different modems, with no joy. The same co...

John, Thanks but no, there was absolutely nothing else running. It may be significant that none of the other dialers will even dial out, but that was not new. I could never make Gkdial, or whatever the other one in Puppy 1.04 was called, work. As I said, the modem works fine in XP. Yes, I tried maki...

Many thanks, everyone. Why Puppy 1.04? Because that was the first one I tried, it worked fine, and I subscribe to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". In addition, the next version was unusable because the icons on screen would not stay put. I have in fact been using 1.08 on a computer at wo...

I have a laptop running Puppy 1.04 with a modem plugged into the side. For a year or more it worked fine, but a week or two ago, it would not connect. The same computer running XP with the same modem, and a desktop computer running Windows 98 connect without trouble. I made no conscious changes. The...

I realized I could recover by deleting the big file on the harddisk and starting from scratch (I am booting from a CD). I did so, and on my attempt to install Open Office, exactly the same thing happened. After waiting for 10 minutes or more while the installation file downloaded, I got an error mes...

I have just tried Puppy Linux 2.12. I'm not sure that I like the appearance, but never mind about that. Using the PupGet package I tried to install the cut down Open Office, and seemed to download the 44 MB or so, but right at the end I got a message that the installation had failed (and Open Office...

Raffy, That was a good suggestion. Indeed, Graveman appears to allow one to choose the location for the temporary files, and the default was indeed in the root and therefore in RAM and inadequate. However, I changed it to an appropriate place on the hard disk (not NTFS!), and still got the same erro...

I realize I ought also to have said that Graveman does let me erase a CDRW disk, so that drive is recognized, and that of course I have run the CD wizard and made the appropriate selections, which are confirmed because if I mount the drives with data CDs, Rox reads both.

Ken Gundry

I have a computer with Linspire installed on the hard disk and two CDrom drives, one merely a reader and the other a burner. They work fine, and will for instance allow replication of disks from the read-only drive to the burner one. However, having discovered Puppy, I have been using a multisession...

There is no change, but as an experiment I downloaded Opera (too cluttered!) and found that it too gave me center justification on the two internet forums that seem to use that particular software (I have no idea what it is). Mozilla in Linspire (another Linux) and Internet Explorer, Netscape and Fi...

Oh, computers make me, a mere electronics engineer, feel so stupid! I downloaded and installed the pup files for xfce4 and xinitrc (finding the "real" xfce4 was not available because of a server crash, but the simple one was accessible). I found, as someone else had too, that in fact at th...

Still no joy. I have searched for other things that might affect the double click speed (lke MultiClickTime, DoubleClickTime) but they don't seem to exist. I am pretty sure the present, presumably default, double click speed is in fact faster than the 400 ms that it appeared to be set to in .jwmc. I...

Well, this is interesting. I find the keycodes in many of the config files are wrong (presumably something other than a standard US keyboard) and of course yours, GuestToo, are correct. On the internet I found a reference to the command xev, and that revealed the actual codes. When I made a .Xmodmap...

The thlot plickens. I found what I believe to be all the files determining the mapping of the keys, and in particular all the ones containing references to keycode 83 which is the keypad decimal point/ delete, changed them all to "keycode 83 = Delete" (saving the originals with different n...

Thank you, everyone. I understand now what you meant about working in the console, but I'm afraid that doesn't help. I don't think the keys around the keypad (when there is one) are standardized, but yes, on both the keyboards in front of me, there is a delete key cum decimal point on the bottom rig...

Following the recent question about USB-to-serial adapters, I have a question about USB-to-parallel adapters. My laptop has no parallel port, and my printer is parallel. I have a USB-to-parallel adapter that allows the printer to work in XP (with consierable difficulty because the set up instruction...

I'm sorry, but I don't know what you mean. The string "numlock" does not appear in any files, apart for .history because I tried entering it in the console to see whether it, or numlockX, were recognized (they were not). I think you are implying that there is a console command to turn the ...