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maddox · Posted: Sat 06 Mar 2010, 22:57 Post subject:

Quirky-008 using live-cd
Acer laptop "tm-4602LMi"
cpu-freq scaling chooses the correct values and they are correctly entered into the min max box.
However, when I close the lid, the cpu hibernates/suspends but it won't wake up completely.
Hit any key, it tries to wake-up, (screen, drive and fan) then falls back to sleep. Only way out is to power-off

Lobster · Posted: Sun 07 Mar 2010, 06:10 Post subject:

This morning I took short .ASF and .mov movies
and they played OK (not automatically) when I dragged them into xine
This may be the new Radeon card or the upgrades in Quirky.

Also used Menu / System / pdisk to great effect
deleting some minor, non-Puppy Linux known as Ubuntu Wink

(be careful noobs
- this is low level partitioning . . .)

Yesterday I watched a streaming movie from the BBC website
- basically I have been using Quirky 008 as my OS

I only use an OS (at this stage) as long as it does what I want
So far so good - several days now

LoneRifle · Joined: 16 Jan 2010 Posts: 9

Reporting everything working well on the Edubook. However, noticed that drivers for my wireless card don't support WPA. Is there a guide to replacing the drivers with ones that do support it? Thanks.

BarryK · Posted: Sun 07 Mar 2010, 21:37 Post subject:

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4950 Location: Australia

Clearly the r8192s_usb driver is WPA-compatible, it simply needs to be specified as compatible in the Network Wizard:
line 322 of /usr/sbin/wag-profiles.sh

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

LoneRifle · Joined: 16 Jan 2010 Posts: 9

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9479 Location: SwedenEurope

I know that Q8 and the others are not supposed to be working puppies. Barry use q to test the woof woof with different ideas and see how they work out.

But I hope later when somebody make use of woof that they fix the nVidia thing so even us who have bought a HP/Compaq with AMD cpu and nVidea graphics can see the desktop instead of a black screen.

No hurry, I can wait.

BarryK · Posted: Wed 10 Mar 2010, 04:00 Post subject: Simple Network Setup

Here is my Simple Network Setup (SNS).

The PET can be installed into Quirky 008, but might cause trouble in older puppies, as it has /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and rc.shutdown that might not be compatible with older pups.

Simple Network Setup can be run just by typing "sns" in a terminal.

It can also be launched by clicking the 'connect' icon on the desktop, then choose 'Internet by wired or wireless LAN', then another window will offer a choice between the Network Wizard and SNS.

If you set SNS as the default, then "exec sns" gets written to /usr/local/bin/defaultconnect. The boot script rc.sysinit reads this and will use SNS to make the connection. Also, the 'connect' icon on the desktop will run SNS immediately when clicked on.

Bug reports most welcome.

EDIT: If you are running Quirky 008, it is probably best to remove all the files /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/99-*. These are part of Pwireless2.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

Hi

Using SNS in a tpup build from woof March 4

I previously had issues in this pup connecting with wireless, I fluked a connection with Pwireless2 by playing with Pwireless2 scripts on the command line but did not record what I did! Evil or Very Mad

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I installed sns-1 in tpup running pfix=ram. I tried it and the interface and available networks showed. Good. I chose the radio button of my essid, chose wep, entered key and hit connect. It failed. Tried again but no networks showed.

Here is the dhcpcd log

BarryK · Posted: Wed 10 Mar 2010, 08:20 Post subject:

01micko,
Ok, can you try doing it all from the commandline. Boot up with pfix=ram, then run this:

You will have to substitute the variables where required. $INTERFACE is something like 'wlan0' or 'wlan1':

# ifconfig $INTERFACE up
# iwlist $INTERFACE scan
...from this you can find the $CHANNEL number.

# iwconfig $INTERFACE mode managed
# iwconfig $INTERFACE essid $ESSID
# iwconfig $INTERFACE channel $CHANNEL

$KEY will be a 10, 26 or 58 digit hexadecimal number...
# iwconfig $INTERFACE key $KEY

If all the the above completed without error, then you should be able to start the dhcpcd client daemon:

# dhcpcd $INTERFACE

...to confirm that this has succeeded, /etc/resolv.conf will have IP addresses in it.

If you get an error at any step above, that will help me to narrow down the problem. Ditto for anyone else reading this. The above steps are for WEP, not WPA.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

Followed instructions... I got online on the second go.. but it seems weird.

The results are in PM I sent you, it is an exact copy/paste from Urxvt, so can't publish here.

Cheers.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 10 Mar 2010, 09:50 Post subject:

Terryphi · Posted: Wed 10 Mar 2010, 11:11 Post subject:

Tried SNS, and then shinobar's net-setup-20100310.pet, but Quirky still does not work with Netgear WG111v2 or WG511. Crying or Very sad

upnorth · Last edited by upnorth on Sun 14 Mar 2010, 13:30; edited 6 times in total

Some of the "extra stuff" on screen looks like stuff from:
dcpcd-hooks/20-resolv.conf

This from Q009 with preinstalled version sns.
update: now with sns-2.1

Otherwise everything was good.

EDIT: As a workaround, I removed comment lines from /etc/resolv.conf and edited the script /usr/sbin/ipinfo at line 84 to be:
<label>\"${nl}${var04}${nl}${nl}${var05}\"</label>
The display is now normal under the DNS tab. Idea

For some reason, the markup <b> and <tt> was interpreted as standard text
on line 84 of ipinfo.