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#41 Post by gray »

I tried alpha6 on my 5 yr old home computer - booted up fine.
Then tried on my new computer at work - no go.
The live cd gets stuck after searching for puppy files with error message 'cant find puppy_396.sfs'.

This system has a sata hard drive and an IDE DVD-ROM and and IDE DVD RW drive. Puppy 301 works OK on this machine.

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#42 Post by Tui »

Hi all,
I just did an upgrade on an Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi
(wide screen) from V2.17 to V396
This upgrade was onto an external USB hard drive and all went
well with it.
The machine uses a German keyboard and here again all went
well.

I like the multimedia player XINE it sure goes well on this machine. I
tested it out using a DVD.

As this machine is on a wireless link this also set up easily,
sad to say I can't get the little antenna down on the tray bottom
right hand side ?

I like the visual antenna better than seeing the two monitors
as this is more positive of a WIFI operation than a LAN connection.

How do I add the antenna in ?

Cheers Tui

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#43 Post by Lobster »

I am beginning to suspect - using intuition
as I don't have sufficient neurons for logic
that my problems with xine are memory related.

I enclose info on my running processes under Dingo
just in case they are of use or interest

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Mem: 338388K used, 177012K free, 0K shrd, 29352K buff, 222848K cached
CPU:   0% usr   0% sys   0% nice  98% idle   0% io   0% irq   0% softirq
Load average: 0.06 0.16 0.09
  PID  PPID USER     STAT   VSZ %MEM %CPU COMMAND
11295 11290 root     S     148m  29%   1% /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.6/seamonkey-bin 
 3942  3941 root     S <  99676  19%   0% X :0 -br -nolisten tcp 
 1825     1 root     S     2772   1%   0% rxvt -font 7x14 -bg #c0c0c0 -fg black -T Top -n Top -e top 
 4015  4014 root     S    17104   3%   0% gtkdialog3 --program Vision 
 3978     1 root     S    14404   3%   0% /usr/local/apps/ROX-Filer/ROX-Filer -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin 
 3992     1 root     S     8812   2%   0% blinky -bg #4D525B 
 3983  3954 root     S     8592   2%   0% absvolume -bg #4D525B 
 3954  3941 root     S     5348   1%   0% jwm 
 3145     1 root     S     4636   1%   0% /usr/sbin/cupsd 
 3986     1 root     S     3412   1%   0% xload -nolabel -fg red -hl white -bg #4D525B 
 3988     1 root     S     3384   1%   0% freememapplet -p 13 
 3958  3957 root     S     3068   1%   0% /usr/bin/autocutsel 
 3842     1 root     S     2772   1%   0% -sh 
 4014  4013 root     S     2704   1%   0% /bin/bash /root/Startup/YAP 
11290 11270 root     S     2688   1%   0% /bin/sh /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.6/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.6/seamonkey-bin 
 3898  3842 root     S     2664   1%   0% /bin/sh /usr/X11R7/bin/xwin 
11270  3978 root     S     2656   1%   0% /bin/sh /usr/bin/mozilla 
 4013     1 root     S     2640   1%   0% /bin/sh /usr/sbin/delayedrun 
 3957  3954 root     S     2632   1%   0% /bin/sh /root/.xinitrc 
 1826  1825 root     R     2312   0%   0% top 
 3497     1 root     S N   2244   0%   0% /bin/sh /usr/sbin/savepuppyd 
 3941  3898 root     S     2224   0%   0% /usr/X11R7/bin/xinit /root/.xinitrc -- -br -nolisten tcp 
 3734     1 root     S     2048   0%   0% /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 
    1     0 root     S     2044   0%   0% init       
 2652     1 root     S     2044   0%   0% klogd 
 2650     1 root     S     2044   0%   0% syslogd -m 0 
 3602     1 root     S     1540   0%   0% dhcpcd -I  eth0 
 2528  3497 root     S N   1336   0%   0% sleep 4 
PS.
Sage made my earlier screen shot smaller
I hope you are having more luck.
I am now going to try Puppy Dingo on a Pentium III
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#44 Post by BarryK »

I've built alpha6 with the 2.6.21.7 kernel from Puppy 3.01. See my blog announcement.

Hopefully, if you had something working in 3.01, it should still work in this build.
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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#45 Post by Sage »

Arise, Sir Barry! Multitudinous felicitations.

So now we all know - it's the kernel (colonel?!)

Way out of my depth, but I did note massive inconsistencies in 2.6.24/3 nomenclatures. Sometimes I was reading sda, other times hda - often within the same file. Probably some more homework for for those who know what they're doing.

Thanks a $Am.

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#46 Post by Tui »

Hi BarryK, I am doing ad/l now of version with k2.6.xx.x I
am not sure what it will be, your blog says k2.6.21. , the d/l
site says k2.6.23. ! Am I wrong here?

I will do sum check when complete and do a burn.

Cheers Tui

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Out of town, no bcm43xx report

#47 Post by geneven »

I don't have access to my two laptops with bcm43xx on them, so I can't try them with the new (older) kernel. I just have my Nokia N800 handheld computer. I am running the newest Dingo (older kernel ) alpha 6 on a modern Gateway desktop computer, and it looks great. No problems thus far.

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#48 Post by Rickrandom »

Frugal install of 2.6.24 alpha6 (files extracted using Isobuster) on NEC laptop with NTFS hard drive, new menulst entry:

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title Puppy Linux 400a6
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/puppy400a6/VMLINUZ pmedia=idehd root=/dev/ram0
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/puppy400a6/INITRD.GZ
with PUP_396 and ZDRV in C:\

Booted, selected 0 for no save file, got red text something like pup_396 not found.

Rebooted different OS, renamed PUP_396 and ZDRV to lower case, and rebooted, selected 0 for no save file, did keyboard and video selection OK, got to desktop, closed and made save file OK.

(Not sure what determines the upper/lower case when creating the files, maybe Isobuster, or maybe it's a setting in the iso.)

Rebooted, selected save file OK, clicked Connect icon, got choice of ath0 and eth0, put in details, autoDHCP, connected to wireless OK, browsing OK.

Up/down keys by trackpad work, never worked on 3.01 and earlier. Makes navigating some web pages much easier.

Tried BBC radio (I'm a Brit), radio sounded OK but then cut off after 1 min 20 sec or so, tried again and cut off after approx same time. Tried open in standalone player, got very broken sound, and same cut off time.

Youtube video worked fine with clip over 3 mins long.

Abiword, Gnumeric, firewall, CD playing, Fotox OK. (Didn't actually check firewall robustness.) Gnumeric sheet tabs had white text on near-white background until selected (so you didn't know the sheet name until selected so hit and miss), but changing the theme solved this.

Ripoff MP3 rippper seemed very slow, but I'd never used it before, maybe operator error.

Pdf viwer started OK and opened files, but just shut down with no warning if down arrow or page down was used. Repeated with same effect several time. Same/similar pdf viewer in Puppy3.01 (didn't actually check which versions) works fine.

Battery monitor seems to be black on dark grey, no actual %, reported in another thread.

In general, seems quite quick, maybe slightly quicker than other Puppies, a bit too orange for my taste (not worked out how to change that as theme doesn't seem to affect it), generally usable, but would be nice to get the main issues sorted.

I'll play some more....

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#49 Post by plinej »

Flash,

All of the options to make pcdripper work are in the [ Click for options ] button at the top of the gui.
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#50 Post by linuxcbon »

Continuation :

At startup : "Making the file system usable ... /bin/mount/ : line 91 /etc/mtab : Read-only file system".

pppoe is missing :
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributio ... tched1.pet
(for using it, do pppoe-setup and pppoe-start).

Is it possible to have windows key work ?
And Num lock ON at start.
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#51 Post by JustGreg »

On the "stay at home" (ZPC-9000) system, my script using the iwpriv commands works and allows me to connect to my wpa2 network. However, my scrpt using wpa_supplicant fails due to lack of RALINK driver support. Trying the network wizard, if also fails. From the appearance of the "blinky" network lights, I suspect it also has wpa_supplicant problem. The wpa_supplicant version is 0.6.0.

On the Eee PC, I have no luck with the ath_pci driver. There is no creation of ath0 interface. The interesting thing is I can turn on or off the card with
Function F2 key, but, still no interface. I have used Raffy's breezy and can connect.

I still get the "unsafe /tmp permissions" error with syslinux on USB installations.

I think going back to the older kernel is not solution. The problem is the kernel modules for the wireless hardware. Having a wpa_supplicant that supports the RALINK and wifi drivers would help. I think the ath0 problem may be a module dependency issue. I will check my notes, I seem to have encounter this with ath_pci driver before.
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#52 Post by Tui »

Hi all,
yes I did the d/l, checksum, and burn cd. The developers
blog said the linkback was to the puppy version with kernel
K 2.6.21.7 but I found the linkback was to the version with the
kernel K2.6.23.12 ! So still no forward or back as the case maybe.

Cheers Tui

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#53 Post by kirk »

I didn't mention this before, but Dingo is looking very good. Seems quite fast.

I've tried it on 2 laptops and 4 desktops (3 with ide, 1 with ide & sata) without problems, except for the bcm43xx on my wife's laptop. That's nothing new though. It's been hit or miss with the bcm43xx for a while. That wireless card has two different kernel modules it could use and two different sets of firmware depending on how old the card is.

The rt2x00 drivers for Ralink have been buggy for quite a while, perhaps now that they're main-lined they'll improve. The legacy Ralink drivers are quite stable.

Probably by the time Dingo gets to beta 2.6.24.1 will be out with a truck load of fixes. Keep pressing foward!

Thanks for your work.

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#54 Post by Flash »

Plinej, thanks. I could swear I clicked on that button but if I did I somehow missed what the menu was telling me. :oops:

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#55 Post by tempestuous »

JustGreg wrote:my scrpt using wpa_supplicant fails due to lack of RALINK driver support.
Barry, I recommend reverting to the older 0.5.8 version of wpa_supplicant, patched for Ralink support. I compiled and packaged this version during Puppy4's early stages -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 956#151956
wpa-supplicant-0.6.0 was supposed to support Ralink out of the box, but it clearly doesn't work.
JustGreg wrote:On the Eee PC, I have no luck with the ath_pci driver.
That's to be expected. The standard ath_pci driver does not support the particular Atheros chipset in the Eee.
Once Puppy4 is finalised we will need to compile the special patched version of the ath_pci driver for you ... but this driver will need to be installed as an add-on, because it breaks compatibility with other Atheros wifi devices.

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#56 Post by Tui »

Hi all,
I have just gone to the site called at BarryK blog
and noticed that the kernel k2.6.21.7 has now been uploaded,
it was not there a few hours ago. I don't know who did the upload?

I have now gone thro' the motion of d/l, checksum and burned cd.

Can't see any change except sda xx is now hda xx and it still
has missing the items I reported on other threads.


So now I have the three versions of kernels with the same puppy
theme. All is well at the moment.

Cheers Tui

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#57 Post by BarryK »

kirk wrote: Thanks for putting in the battery monitor. In order to see the whole battery monitor, /root/.jwmrc-tray line 2 height="26" should be changed to height="28".

Also, The File-Sharing (Pcurlftp) Rox app depends on pure-ftpd. I think you said you were going to include it. Anyway pure-ftpd is a pet package available on Pet-get, but the package has a problem. The folder /root/ftpd needs to have its owner changed to ftp and permissions set to 777 or 755.

Some folks said they had problems with bcm43 wireless. My wife's laptop has a bcm43. It didn't get the module loaded. I ended up having to rmmod the b43 and ssb modules and then modprobe the bcm43xx. If I can get some more time with her laptop I'll try to figure out what's going on.
I have fixed the tray height.
I changed /root/ftpd owner to 'ftp'.
I have now included pure_ftpd.
Note, the PET package is named 'file_sharing-curlftpfs-mpscan-0.1-0.9.1-0.1.0'.

The fixes did not make it into the alpha6 build with 2.6.21.7 kernel nor the 3.02alpha1.

Yes, weird about the bcm43xx.
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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#58 Post by Béèm »

This annoys me a lot.
A password field lenght issue.
See: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 856#170856

I would appreciate a solution.
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#59 Post by BarryK »

Béèm wrote:This annoys me a lot.
A password field lenght issue.
See: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 856#170856

I would appreciate a solution.
I've used gFTP for years, never run into a problem with password size.
I think, from memory, the biggest password I have used is 10 characters.
The problem is more likely to be the ftp server at the other end.
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

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#60 Post by Béèm »

BarryK wrote:
Béèm wrote:This annoys me a lot.
A password field lenght issue.
See: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 856#170856

I would appreciate a solution.
I've used gFTP for years, never run into a problem with password size.
I think, from memory, the biggest password I have used is 10 characters.
The problem is more likely to be the ftp server at the other end.
The problem is I can't enter a password bigger then 7 characters in the gui field of gFTP. No problem to enter a userid bigger then 7 characters.

It's not a question of a problem at the server end as I can go to it with FileZilla in Windows without a problem.

EDIT
I tried in 3.01 with gFTP at 2.0.18, same problem.
As I had FileZilla in 3.01 installed also I tried and I have no problem to connect to my website.
So definitely a problem in gFTP.
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