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[Laie]

Broadcom Wifi again
I use a Lenovo S12 netbook with the Nvidia ION Chip. jrb's pup-431bcm4312v3 runs the built in broadcom wifi device but it doesn’t cope with the graphic processor. Dpup beta4 runs the netbook smoothly but does not recognize the Broadcom 43xx wireless device. Any help possible?

[tubeguy]

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[tubeguy]

[OverDrive]

This is my first test of Dpup. The UI is quite a nice step in the right direction. What all I tested was usually very intuitive.

One problem I found though...

The b43 driver has a bug ( the same as puppy 4.3.1 ) in that it's lan throughput is about 1/12 of what it should be. The wl driver in Stardust 13 or the b43 driver in quirky 018 do not have that problem though.

Keep up the good work...

OverDrive

[jeffy39]

Howdy All,
Am I missing a codec or something?
Dont have any sound from .pps slide shows.
Am using OpenOffice-2.4.1.sfs and ch4-jre1.6.0_11.sfs.
Dpup-devx-484.sfs also loaded.
Thanx much for info to fix.

[Shep]

I was using dpup477 but it seemed that firefox was developing one
problem after another (*) so when firefox wouldn't even start up after
I allowed an automatic security update install from mozilla, I
downloaded a firefox pet and installed that. This left me with two
firefox entries in the MENU. Firefox would now work again , but it was
still not right. (*)

I upgraded to 484 hoping that this would fix things. Alas, I still have two
entries in the MENU and neither succeeds to bring up the browser.
From the command line, /usr/bin/firefox elicits this error message:

oops, I've had to resort to stardust CD so can't get hold of the error

Anyway, perhaps I can clean out all files relating to firefox and reinstall
it. So is it safe to delete every file whose pathname includes the
'firefox' or 'mozilla' string? Can I avoid losing my bookmarks and
stored passwords?

(*) that was weeks ago, I've forgotten exactly what was going wrong

[dejan555]

dpup's firefox is installed in /lib/firefox by default not sure which pet you installed but it may have created another desktop entry.
Menu entries are built from desktop entries in /usr/share/applications/ you probably have two firefox desktop files there if you delete one and refresh menus it will be gone.

Installing firefox on dpup 484 - well I downloaded latest firefox 3.6.3 from their official site there's precompiled binary and extracted to /lib/firefox over the one that was there.

[sinc]

is gposil gone? just curious, i think micko has had updates on him previously. if so, (i hope he is okay) is anyone else going to take over this project?

[Shep]

I'd like a lynx browser. I found a lynx .deb so I clicked and gave the go ahead to
install it. It said it was installed, but I can't find where it is stored, if indeed it is.

[Shep]

There's a gotcha in abiword in dpup484 (I don't know about in other
puppies). Twice within the space of 15 mins I lost abiword all together.
Both times it happened as my left pinkie slipped off the shift key and
hit the ctrl key (well, those are the keys I believe were involved).
I meant to hold the shift key down but had it by the edge and my
finger slipped onto the ctrl key and the window with abiword disappeared.
I started another instance of abiword, then the identical thing
happened again.

So dangerous as to make abiword unusable for anything except
very short files that I can afford to lose.

EDIT: Just discovered that abiword disappeared when I hit the BS
key, so clearly there are major probs. Fortunately, I had started
abiword from the commandline, and the error message it leaves
after it crashes, is this:
** (abiword:5772): WARNING **: Error loading plugin: unknown dl-error

Means nothing to me, but I hope it does to someone.

I'm not one to give up.
So I tried again. After about 10 mins, I hit the backspace key to
erase a typo and abiword disappeared. This time the error message
on the commandline is:
(abiword:16819): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
Aborted
The window with abiword disappeared as I tapped the BS key.

AFAIK I'm using the bog-standard dpup484 beta 4.

[s0n1c800m]

I had a hdd die on me, so now, 2 months later, I wanted to re-dl dpup. And I can't find it!
I went to dpup.org and waded down to 484b4, as usual, but all I get are the md5 numbers.
What's going on?
LuPu isn't running the one program I really need to run, and I don't know/care enough to spend any more time on figuring out why.
I like dpup and would have been happy to see it become the standard for future pups.

[dejan555]

Wow well isn't that weird! Indeed isos are removed, maybe hosters decided to delete the big files and gposil is still away - maybe they didn't even contact him. Anyway that's strange!
Here I've found a dpup 482 iso on Mike's puppy repo:
http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/mike/Puplets-Woof-Based/Dpup-482beta4-2.6.30.5.iso

Also if you want you can try my kdpup which is based on latest 484 beta, it's much bigger but there are several window managers inside and all the apps that were in dpup are still in, just look for link in my signature.

I will see if I can find latest beta somewhere on web or make someone upload it dammit!

[dejan555]

Here's the link for 484 beta 4 sickgut has it mirrored on his server!
http://www.thepussycatforest.info/linux/dpup.iso

[s0n1c800m]

Oh, you rock... Thanks!

I'll give your pup a try, but I suspect kde might be a bit much for this old box.

<3

Gah, followed the link and read up on it... :/

Might be ideal, actually, esp if I can use icewm or sommat on it.

s0n1c begins to scheme and plot.