Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

oui · Posted: Wed 10 Mar 2010, 20:31 Post subject:

Hi

As it was not possible for me in the last time to work easily with Puppy any more, I did not visit this forum as often as in the past and did ignore the existence of this discussion...

only a automatic forum email did remember me on this discussion

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=51091

and I did continue in it.

you will find in the first message on it different observations concerning Quirky (bug in the instant messenger? why Seamonkey 1.1.18 as Seamonkey 2.0 works well Rolling Eyes

? what is it with AbiWord and "CLT languages"... older versions of AbiWord did work very well with CLT languages. the newest not! missing library for skype etc.)

salut

Béèm · Posted: Thu 11 Mar 2010, 13:10 Post subject: SNS

Installed SNS in dpup484beta4

I got my wireless card configured right away without hassle.
Nice little applet.

edoc · Posted: Thu 11 Mar 2010, 15:33 Post subject: Re: SNS

oui · Posted: Thu 11 Mar 2010, 17:54 Post subject:

Hi

In my opinion Turbopup Xtrm 4.2

But Quirky is excellent!

Bye

timber · Joined: 01 Feb 2010 Posts: 6 Location: WA

Great distro BarryK!

I've distro hopped a number of puplets over the past 6 months or so and really like Quirky, it's obvious it's well thought out and runs very smooth with no xorg problems or shutdown errors. Nice selection of packages.
I used the Network Wizard to connect, the Pwireles2 method didn't seem to work for me using WEP (although it may just be that I'm not familiar with it.)

I immediately added Xfce desktop environment and it's working flawlessly.
Opera 10.10 installed and works great.

Tried Compiz and it works but has some problems with pointer and window top bar (no Minimize, Exit etc).

I'm using Quirky as my main OS now and it's the best pup yet!
Thanks for all the hard work you've done on it, it's appreciated!

Béèm · Posted: Thu 11 Mar 2010, 18:49 Post subject: Re: SNS

Béèm · Posted: Thu 11 Mar 2010, 18:51 Post subject: Re: SNS

puppyluvr · Posted: Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:17 Post subject:

Hello BarryK,
Thought I`d give Quirky-008 at test run, if not on the intended (netbook) type of machine
Test machine: Compaq board i82810 chipset, Intel P3 600 "coppermine" processor,
384mb pc100 RAM, onboard i810 video 16mb vram, Maestro3 "Allegro" soundcard, Lite-ON LNE100TX Ethernet
Broadcom PCI "Air-Force" BCM43XX Wireless, 2gb Swap Partition..
Frugal install Quirky-008, grub boot...
Very fast boot, a few seconds pause at depmod, but I swear the configuration scripts ran much faster than Puppy`s normally do..??
Network: autodetection for etho worked fine, Seamonkey came up connected..
Wireless: connection scanned and connected DHCP, uncommon for this card..Nice...
Gnome/Mplayer: Tested avi, mpg, rm, All played great..Fullscreen worked fine on all formats.
Seamonkey: Flash worked fine, as did flashblock..Youtube fullscreen is a bit choppy, but my vidcard sux so...
Ayttm, Abiword, Mtpaint, Geany, Nico, All the "P`s" ect all work fine.
Package manager works fine, but for Quirky, needs to default to ibiblio??
Alsa worked fine, after a pause for upping to depmod-full..
Cute icons..I was getting used to the "test" monochrome ones!!
PupRadio and PupTelly.. Cool

(Yea, thats pretty much where I was going Smile

All in all, very nimble and everything works so far..
I will get back..

@ edoc,
Yes, Quirky and DPup are still experimental...
Although I havent tried the latest yet, Tazoc`s Lighthouse Versions are generally very complete, stable Puplets.. IDK about the KDE side, as I detest KDE...But they are very thorough and well thought out..( 1 of my converts has been running a full install of Lighthouse215 for 2 years now, and it still runs fine..)
If you have stability questions about a puplet, read through its forum thread, that will tell you a lot...

Edit:, Now I see the KDE4 in your link... Embarassed

Lighthouse is KDE now so might be even a better fit for you..

upnorth · Last edited by upnorth on Sat 13 Mar 2010, 14:16; edited 2 times in total

EDIT: /usr/sbin/ipinfo connects to icanhazip.com to get one's publicly seen ip address. Found this after blacklisting the 174.143.240.31 and "detailed network interface information" would then hang. Solved Cool

Just a curiosity Shocked

Whenever I press the "detailed network interface information" button, a connection is automatically made to:
# netstat -tu
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.2:35574 dfw.mhtx.net:www TIME_WAIT
# netstat -tn
Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
tcp 0 0 192.168.254.2:35574 174.143.240.31:80 TIME_WAIT

This ip can also be seen under the statistics tab. Anybody else have this happen?

Also, domain line in resolv.conf contains binary data. See /var/run/dhcpcd/resolv.conf. Another curiosity, as everything works fine.

I couldn't find the ctrl-interface socket for wpa_supplicant in /var/run. Using WPA2 on ath5k

edoc · Posted: Thu 11 Mar 2010, 20:53 Post subject:

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4350 Location: merriam, kansas

Quirky 008 freezes at xorg config (black screen) on my dell 700m,
Intel 855gm video.
It's happened with a few other Quirkies too.

Flash · Posted: Fri 12 Mar 2010, 00:02 Post subject:

Quirky 008 (from a mini DVD-RW burned, and the burn confirmed, with burniso2cd) hangs at "Recognising media devices... optical input_".
I don't know if optical input means the DVD drive or what. Other Puppys have booted many times from this same mini DVD-RW disk.

The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA78GPM-DS2H. The DVD drive is an HP dvd1040.

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

sns1.pet in 431 pupdail, usb cable to mobilephone finds modem and connects ok.
gui is an improvement. still no bluetooth to phone modem connection though.

BarryK · Posted: Fri 12 Mar 2010, 22:33 Post subject:

Here is the next iteration of my Simple Network Setup, attached.

I have added support for Ndiswrapper, however I don't yet have it working properly. Sometimes I can connect, sometimes not -- however, the Network Wizard connects everytime.

...that part at least needs more work!

I also added code to retry with different values for ap_scan.