Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Jnoble · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 7

I have not been able to get dialup to work in any of the dingos. I have three computers with three different types of modems and none of them works. When you put your phone #, user nameand password in and click on connect the computer freezes. All you can do is power off and back on. The same thing happens if you click on PROBE. Help anybody.
Jim

NathanO · Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 193 Location: San Antonio, TX

Downloaded 3.96 'Retro', 2.6.23.12.

Tested on tower first, everything worked.

Tested on HP Pavilion zv6000. It does see the USB mouse and Wireless. I do not have WIFI here, will have to wait until I can get down to San Antonio.

Trying to change anything in the Tray configuration under JWM configuration causes an error still: 'New confg currupt. Keep Original'. Even restarting 'X' did not show the change to number of desktops or tray height. The height could go up some for the Battery Monitor.

It does seem to pick up and IP address under Auto DHCP faster the 3.01.

NathanO

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

NathanO · Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 193 Location: San Antonio, TX

Just to test 'install' I tried to add mplayer and its related .pet's. I came up with a 'Missing Lib's' that was 20 or so lib's long and it said they would be added to the list to download. It only added about 10 of them, then came up with another similar message, but never finished all the libs.

Flash · Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2008, 13:15 Post subject:

Flash

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1318 Location: Maine, USA

Puppy dialogs should be precise when instructing the user. The new pwget tool uses "cut and paste", when it actually intends the user to "copy and paste" the URL for a download.

This is easily remedied by substituting "Copy" for "Cut" in two statements in /usr/local/Pwget/pwget. The corrected statements would be:

Statement 12:

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5243 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

First!
Puppy 4 feels more like a version 1. This one really works - out of the box.
Congratulations, Barry.

- Puppy universal installer: Install frugal to IDE ATA harddrive. Message tells that grub-text is written to /tmp/NEWGRUBTEXT, but it's not.
- Gxset doesn't save new settings.
- Installing (doubleclick in rox) a pet from a directory with spaces in dirname - fails.
- Petget: Second time usage (added pet) starts 'remove' function. Asks to remove pet-without-name.
- Dotpuphandler requires 'gettext' which is NOT in the Puppy 4.00 repository.

- As the collection of apps are getting really strong, I still miss the slideshow, and a power image-viewer Wink

The best wishes on your India journey.
Sigmund

rerwin · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 1318 Location: Maine, USA

In reviewing the implemented test for problematic laptop video adapters, I noticed that the ddcprobe "oem:" lines from the users have "CYBER" in all upper case; but the xorgwizard script has "Cyber". My error in not correcting that earlier.

Also, another possibly problematic adapter is an 8620, similar to the 8820 already included.

Please update line 488 of /usr/sbin/xorgwizard and insert a new line, resulting in the new lines 488 & 489:

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

Lobster · Posted: Wed 30 Jan 2008, 17:40 Post subject:

Someone gave me a Canon BJC 4300 - does not run on XP - thank you Microsoft Laughing

also did not run with Puppy 2.17 Confused

But Dingo did go.

Béèm · Last edited by Béèm on Thu 31 Jan 2008, 14:03; edited 1 time in total

I give the url, the userid and the password and am blessed with login incorrect.
Finally I realized that from the 8 characters entered for the password only the first seven are retained.

Why this restriction and how to correct.

BTW anonymous login to f.e. Mozilla is successful.

Béèm

In alpha 5 I raised the problem that one could 'unshow' both these windows and that all remained is a contour of one window.
I tried in alpha 6, both windows can't be 'unshown' anymore. Either one wil stay.
Problem solved.

linuxcbon · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 693

So far so good Smile

pppoe not included : very needed !
xine full screen video, we still see the task bar.
A pity that 3gp and .mp4 videos not associated to xine.
Cannot exit ChmSee properly.

JustGreg · Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 651 Location: Connecticut USA

I tried both versions (2.6.24 and 2.6.23.12) on my stay at home and the Eee PC. I still get the unsafe /mp permissions with Syslinux-nomtools. if mtools is present with syslinux no problems. I suggest that mtools be added back in. With both versions and the Eee PC, the battery indicator is present and works well. This is a nice improvement for laptop users.

I did encounter wifi issues with 2.6.24 kernel and my wifi network with the stay at home computer. The 2.6.24 version has a new RT73USB (2.6.23.12 uses RT73 and works) driver for my Linksys USB device. Trying the network wizard, I was informed that the RT73USB driver does not support WPA. This is a problem for me since the wifi network uses WPA2 encryption. I tried using my wpa_supplicant script from Puppy 3.01 and was informed wpa_supplicant does not support RALINK driver. I tried the script for Digno (Jan 11 version) that uses iwpriv commands and works for the 2.6.23.12 kernel. A error message was shown that the RT73USB driver does not support private I/O controls. I will try a few ideas and see if I get 2.6.24 kernel to work with wpa wifi.

With the Eee PC, the correct driver was loaded, but, neither versions could see the wifi device. I can turn the atheros device on or off, but the Network Wizard can not see the interface ath0. This will have to wait.