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greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2399 Location: New Zealand

Using puppy Cielo based on Wary 5 it would connect to the internet once, but after the second boot it would not connect any more.

It seems that the first dhcp request from Cielo worked successfully but then caused the router to go into a state where it would refuse to issue any other new dhcp leases. This affected the second and subsequent boots of the Cielo puppy pc but also prevented any other PC (including a Windows XP netbook) from being able to request a dhcp connection.

This could only be resolved by turning the router off/on and waiting for the ADSL to re-establish. Then rebooting the Cielo PC. Very annoying and time consuming.

Barry K refers to dhcpcd problems having crept back into Wary in this blog comment:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02352

He mentions the dhcpcd pet and this did resolve the problem for me on Cielo Wary 5 in an installed environment (but the problem will still remain in a live cd obviously).

Note that the pet file name is misspelt though. The actual pet is available here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/dhcpcd-5.2.12-1-w5.pet

I think some routers are very susceptible to the faulty dhcpcd code and I suspect this is responsible for internet connection failures with many other previous puppy versions, particularly in a Live CD environment where you cannot change the dhcpcd code that is written on the CD.

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1500

Interesting. I'm giving Cielo a spin now and I'll let you know if this happens when I log out and reboot into a different (or the same) distro.

Certainly a cool project though. It looks good and comes with a big selection of apps including Open Office, Opera and Seamonkey.

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1500

Looks OK to me so far, no problems with Internet connection at all either when booting up in a different distro after using Cielo or when returning to it.

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1500

Back in Cielo again and on my old machine after a disastrous install of Mageia 3 RC (don't ask) left my Optiplex with severe problems. I'm going to have to DBAN the hard drive soon, start again and reinstall.everything (at least I make regular backups now, so all was not lost).

In the meantime though, Cielo's working fine Smile

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greengeek · Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 2399 Location: New Zealand

I had a request to upload Cielo wary 5 as the original link has problems so here it is:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/m9oqqmkc1upurpw/puppy_cielo_wary_5.iso
md5: bd983c487b75317dca6f4c2a1c2347b6

sansriraj · Joined: 30 Jun 2009 Posts: 15

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1500

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1500

I'm using Wary 5.5 now with some of the additional software that Cielo has, added on top, and I think Wary would be a good choice for a community version of Puppy (especially for those of us with older computers).

It seems to put a lot less stress on my computer (due to its older libraries making less demand on my hardware) than other recent Puppies do.

Puppy Precise Retro also runs well on my machine but more noisily than Wary does, indicating that it needs more resources to run properly than Wary.