Jaunty Puppy Alpha9 feedback

Under development: PCMCIA, wireless, etc.
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hartiberlin
Posts: 67
Joined: Thu 21 May 2009, 16:13

#101 Post by hartiberlin »

Hi,
I tested the ppa.iso and pps.iso

ppa.iso would not boot from Fat32 USB stick as it said
it could not find ppa-422.sfs

Then downloaded the newer pps.iso
and that booted fine...
But it seems it does not contain the latest WPA2 compatible
WIFI drivers.

I have a Realtek RTL8180 based PCMCIA WLAN card
and it does not work with it.

it even can not find any WLAN network at all.

The distis I got the my Realtek RTL8180 based PCMCIA WLAN card
to work with WPA2 encryption are Fatdog2 beta and turbopup and flexpup.

Hope this helps somehow.

Regards, Stefan.
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n01fu
Posts: 9
Joined: Fri 10 Apr 2009, 21:42

fprot issue

#102 Post by n01fu »

Athlon 5000 w 1GB ram, frugal install. fprot downloads, but immediately an error from fscan saying

"fscan - fprot:

file not found!

Aborting..."

tomasrey88
Posts: 23
Joined: Fri 14 Aug 2009, 07:48

Do Not Base On Ubuntu, It Has Major Bugs Developers Igore

#103 Post by tomasrey88 »

Dear Barry,

Please do not base Puppy on Ubuntu. It has major bugs that the developers ignore. Keep Puppy independent.

If you use USB 2.0 devices such as USB flash or external DVD RW drives or external hard drives on USB 1.0 computers with Ubuntu, it will cause data corruption. This does not happen in Puppy 4.2.1. Please refer to the following webpage for details:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1231361

Please do not base Puppy on Ubuntu. Keep Puppy independent.

Thanks,
tomasrey88.

sapik
Posts: 1
Joined: Tue 15 Sep 2009, 22:48

Re: Jaunty Puppy Alpha9 feedback

#104 Post by sapik »

BarryK wrote:Announced on my blog:

http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00768

I have started this forum thread for bug reports and general feedback.
...


Hello Barry,
Just reporting, Jaunty puppy works well on a Stock Toshiba Satellite 2800 laptop.
I installed as a Full installation on a second partition. It is a recent installation and I didn't probe exhaustively but what I test worked perfect. Also the pcmcia wireless card works.
By the way, I am posting using the laptop.

Some information of the machine:
CPU: Intel Celeron (Coppermine) @ 650MHz (max speed)
RAM: Stock 64MB
HD: 5GB
Wireless: Unknown Chinese PCMCIA card
SWAP: 250MB as a first partition.
OS related: acpi=force, Xorg@1024x768

Thank you to Barry and all the Puppy community. Puppy Linux Rocks! on old computers! :P

Greetings from Costa Rica.

cichlasoma
Posts: 69
Joined: Sun 13 Sep 2009, 01:57

#105 Post by cichlasoma »

I've just tried 476 out quite quickly.
On different machines, I see no icons in menu in Xorg.
In Xvesa it's OK, but Puppy cannot shut the computer down (or reboot it), it just restarts X instead, trying to shut down X restarts it instead as well.
I've tried to install circa 10 Ubuntu packages, in all the cases, Puppy reported no dependencies were missing, yet when I clicked the created menu entry, nothing happened. I've tried to run from console only some of them, i got messages on missing dependencies.
Was I especially "lucky" to choose packages which are special in some way or is installation of Ubuntu packages generally still not working?
(I was running a frugal install on a hard drive.)
Last edited by cichlasoma on Tue 29 Sep 2009, 10:01, edited 1 time in total.

jeffy39
Posts: 32
Joined: Wed 04 Mar 2009, 14:29

upup4.7.6-a9

#106 Post by jeffy39 »

Howdy, I used the sfs-converter (in 4.3.1) on VLC.sfs, OO2.4.1.sfs and JRE.sfs, and ch-Firefox-3.5.2.sfs to bring them all to Rel4.
All work except FF. It 'hangs-dies' in the Import Wizzard.
Any ideas as to why?

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