Slackpup 0.4 beta

[upnorth]

http://mirrors.vbi.vt.edu/mirrors/linux ... i486-2.txz



ftp://ftp.osuosl.org:21/pub/slackware/s ... i486-2.txz

[aarf]

just checking.
my disconnecting wifi problem doesn't stem from this corruption problem

# fsck -f /mnt/home/spup04/spupsave-spup04ext3.3fs
fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/mnt/home/spup04/spupsave-spup04ext3.3fs: 1100/8192 files (3.7% non-contiguous), 17344/32768 blocks
#

[edoc]

aarf:

I have "pfix=fsck" in the kernel line of my GRUB on all of the computers here.

I have suffered too many corrupt save files and other problems in the past - it slows the boot but I am unaware of any other problems introduced.

I am also using ext3 rather than ext2 in hopes that will also prevent trouble.

As a result I cannot see how a corrupt save file could have caused Wifi to suddenly start refusing to connect.

WDYT?

[aarf]

aarf:

I have "pfix=fsck" in the kernel line of my GRUB on all of the computers here.

I have suffered too many corrupt save files and other problems in the past - it slows the boot but I am unaware of any other problems introduced.

I am also using ext3 rather than ext2 in hopes that will also prevent trouble.

As a result I cannot see how a corrupt save file could have caused Wifi to suddenly start refusing to connect.

WDYT?

hmm now that i check i also have "pfix=fsck" in my menu.lst line.
my problem seems different than yours in that i can easily connect and reconnect. but just as easily automatically disconnect. this doesnt happen in puppeeerc7 or spup03.

WDYT?

my thoughts are not based in relevant knowledge so are not posted. i just do testing and reporting.

[stu90]

GView:

Clicking on an image opened with Gview or using scroll on laptop touch pad in Gview cause 100% memory and 100% CPU usage.

[edoc]

Should I expect this driver/module to work in Puppy SPUP 040?

It looks as though it wants to install in /usr/lib/modules/usb/media but there was no previously existing directory like that.

Once I know if this should be SPUP 040 compatible I can eliminate that as a reason it isn't working and create a new thread to chase the gtkam problem.


http://www.moyo.me.uk/pupplinux/download1.htm

Philips Logitech Orbit/Sphere, Zoom, Pro, etc.
Creative 5, Afina Eye, Visionite pwc.o 23 May 2006 puppy-pwc-9.0.2.tar.gz

Here are some additional pwc files:
http://saillard.org/linux/pwc/files/

EDIT: I tried copying the module to: /usr/lib/libgphoto2/2.4.8 but gtkam does not appear to "see" it. Do I need to copy and rename one of the ".la" files and edit it to match the pwc.o? There is a mention in the comment text of the .la file that I looked at which said the file was necessary for linking.

[edoc]

Wifi works fine on my CF-29 and Z500 laptops but not on the CF-28 and ACER Aspire 5525 laptops.

I can find no setting anywhere that is causing them to fail to connect.

There is plenty of signal (56 of 70) and everything else is the same - other than they are different laptops with different Wifi nics than the other two.

All four have worked fine previously - so it points to some anomaly in the SPUP 040 setup for Wifi ...

EDIT:

I am sorry to say that the problem is in Barry's Simple Network Setup. Dougal's works fine in SPUP 040 on both computers. I just deleted the savefile and started over with Dougal's and Wifi is fine.

[don570]

I discovered that some hardware has a quirk with mplayer.
Ordinarily mplayer sets the volume level to highest when it first launches
with a sound file. With some machines such as mine, this causes distortion.
There is two possible solutions:
1) set the preference setting ‘Mplayer Software Volume Control Enabled’

2) Put the line

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softvol = "yes"

in .mplayer/config which is hidden in /root
This apparently stops Mplayer from changing system-wide volume

[wuwei]

Thanks upnorth for your links.

I downloaded the package with another Puppy and installed it in spup to /usr/sbin. Yet, I still can't get pppoe to work properly. From the PPPOE GUI "Status" I can see that I should be connected. Still Seamonkey does not open any web page at all.

At my wit's end....

[BarryK]

Thanks upnorth for your links.

I downloaded the package with another Puppy and installed it in spup to /usr/sbin. Yet, I still can't get pppoe to work properly. From the PPPOE GUI "Status" I can see that I should be connected. Still Seamonkey does not open any web page at all.

At my wit's end....

Note that Spup 0.4 already has tcpdump installed. That problem was in 0.3.

As to why it is still not working, I don't know. Thanks for trying to help.

I wish that I could get access to a pppoe network to experiment on.

Did you try the alternative method that I posted here, in Spup 0.4?:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01701

[wuwei]

Hi Barry,

thanks for helping me.

Yes I did try your 4 step method. That was my first approach in a fresh spup 040.
Right here
[quote]We need to add to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets our login and password.
If you plan to use pppd for more than one connection, than there is a necessity to introduce a unique ID along with login and password. For example, “PROV

[tazoc]

In /usr/sbin/alsaconf, when restarting alsa at line 907

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     if [ -x $rcalsasound ] ; then
      echo Loading driver...
      $rcalsasound restart
    fi

/etc/init.d/alsa would be executed, but it doesn't have a restart option, only start and stop. In my testing this failed to restart alsa (no sound) until I rebooted. I fixed this by changing the beginning of /etc/init.d/alsa to

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case "$1" in
 *start)

Of course another fix would be to have alsaconf execute $rcalsasound with a start instead of restart.
-TazOC

[Hacao]

Hi all,

Slackpup working well on IBM R50e laptop (made Hacao Linux series from 2.0 to 2009 CE).

Thanks,

[panda_watch]

Hi All,

I'm a newbie so don't know if my reporting will help. Of the recently released iso's Slackpup is the only one to boot to the desktop when I probe for a video driver. In Lucid and Quirky I have had to choose Xvesa as the computer freezes otherwise.

Wifi is working intermittently for me on Slackpup. I was having the same problem in Quirky but NOT in Lucid. If I use Dougal's network setup it works for only a short time. Using Barry's network setup it lasts longer. Oddly when I first boot up and try to use Barry's straight away it won't work but if I use Dougal's, wait for it to cut out, and then use Barry's again it works. Weird.

Anyway thought I'd let you know.

[peebee]

Thanks first to Barry for giving us all these things to try....

Trying out spup-040 from LiveCD on HP550 laptop, Thinkpad 600 laptop and on an AMD based desktop.

On HP550 laptop:
-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 550 @ 2.00GHz
Memory : 2066MB (88MB used)
Operating System : Puppy Linux 0.04

-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
Agere Systems HDA modem with manufacturer:model id = 11c1:1040

-PCI Devices-
Network controller : Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g

**Wifi problems:
Can connect using Network Wizard but not with Simple Network Setup however connection is not remembered through a reboot.
Connection drops periodically see dmesg output ++++1++++ below - but is reconnected with this command:
iwconfig wlan0 essid xxxxxxxxx
SAMBA via pNethood worked but the new Samba tools did not work for me - the buttons when clicked didn't seem to do anything.

**Modem problem:
Tried to force load modules agrmodem and agrserial - dmesg output ++++2++++ shows error messages - do I need to load something else??

**Sound problem:
Sound is muted on reboot and then springs into life after a time delay.

Other than these problems - much better with far fewer problems than recent tries to use lupu501, qret-120 and wary-030.
Successes were that mplayer played dvb-t ok and webcam worked out of the box.

Also tried on my AMD desktop and that seemed OK but on my Thinkpad 600 spup would not boot - strangely it started to boot and read stuff off the cd but then was unable to read the spup-040.sfs file and stopped - I guess I need a retro version for this age of hardware.

Cheers
Peter

dmesg ++++1++++
wlan0: authenticate with 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (try 1)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (try 1)
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (capab=0x11 status=0 aid=1)
wlan0: associated
cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
wlan0: deauthenticated from 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (Reason: 3)
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
wlan0: authenticate with 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (try 1)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (try 1)
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (capab=0x11 status=0 aid=1)
wlan0: associated
wlan0: deauthenticated from 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (Reason: 3)
cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
wlan0: authenticate with 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (try 1)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (try 1)
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 94:44:52:0e:80:f3 (capab=0x11 status=0 aid=1)
wlan0: associated

dmesg ++++2++++
agrmodem: disagrees about version of symbol snd_cards
agrmodem: Unknown symbol snd_cards
agrmodem: disagrees about version of symbol snd_hda_codec_read
agrmodem: Unknown symbol snd_hda_codec_read
agrmodem: disagrees about version of symbol snd_hda_codec_write
agrmodem: Unknown symbol snd_hda_codec_write

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**Wifi problems:
Can connect using Network Wizard but not with Simple Network Setup however connection is not remembered through a reboot.
Connection drops periodically see dmesg output ++++1++++ below - but is reconnected with this command:
iwconfig wlan0 essid xxxxxxxxx

I made a wireless tweak to the router settings then tried to reconnect - no go.

I have tried rebooting, logging on to the router via a cable and restoring the original settings, tried installing pwireless (it found no routers),.

I can "see" the router and am sitting below it 70/70 signal strength.

I just tried "iwconfig wlan0 essid wireless" but no joy.

I am guessing that whatever happened when I tweaked the router and rebooted is still stuck somewhere in a config file or elsewhere and that is what is preventing the Wifi nic from connecting.

This laptop and Wifi have been working fine, I use it every day at home and on the road, so there is no reason to believe it is a hardware failure.

Any thoughts as to how to purge/reset the Wifi settings in spup 040 so I can get my Wifi back, please?

[rerwin]

peebee,

Agere Systems HDA modem with manufacturer:model id = 11c1:1040

**Modem problem:
Tried to force load modules agrmodem and agrserial - dmesg output ++++2++++ shows error messages - do I need to load something else??

I am not convinced that the issues with this modem have been resolved. I researched it a few months ago and concluded that work was still in progress in getting it to work reliably. I have on my "To Do" list to revisit the problem in the near future, to see what progress has been made. If you know of any linux distro in which the modem works, please tell me so I can see how they did it. Thanks.
Richard

[edoc]

The Wifi failure I am seeing is in wpa_supplicant

Is there somewhere that the Internet Connection Wizard stores wpa_supplicant information where something may be corrupted and needs to be deleted so a clean config may be created?

The last time I saw this it was in the transition from Spup 030 to Spup 040 and I had to move the Spup 030 savefile where the new Spup 040 boot could not find it in order to get a clean Spup boot and new savefile without whatever was corrupt in the Spup 030 savefile.

It is really frustrating to have to go to another room to hardwire the laptop in order to connect to the Internet!

Help??

EDIT:

Can I delete these and force them to be rebuilt?

/etc/network-wizard/wireless/wpa_profiles/CO:3F:OE:56:E6:EE:WPA2.conf

or

/etc/network-wizard/wireless/wpa_profiles/CO:3F:OE:56:E6:EE:WPA.conf

[eps]

1install on hdd spup and lupu
2 pppoe +connect now
3 reboot
4 on spup missing resolv.conf
On lupu resolv.conf is generatet corecu at evry connect nou
but external ip missing
on spup after write on resolv external ip exist and and internet exist
thanks
eps

[edoc]

Should we get the Slackware version of Audacity here for spup 040?
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.0/audio/audacity/

Or is there another preferred source that will work, please?