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[Aung]

@rerwin,
Just for an experiment I took out the sim card and inserted a micro SD card. But the micro SD dont show up as a drive, as a USB jump drive it is completely useless. I have been able to unlock the modem but I cant delete the ISP's doze setup files, (not yet, I'll use diskper.exe if I can get away with it) If I were to be able to delete the doze files would that bypass the need for usb_modeswitch at all. I have a dashboard from a mob that calls their selves simply '3'. Putting the question another way, Can I 'hotwire' the modem to NOT need modeswitch but to be responsive (by deleting the doze dashboard) to 3's dashboard? Will diskpar delete the 'CD rom' partition/files? aung

[Aitch]

Aung
I use a 3G device, a huawei E220, successfully in puppy since 4.12 or 4.21? [thanks Rich]
Once the modeswitch is done, invisibly...you aren't even aware the windoze cr*p is there....and it works well - I can't see why you'd want to mess with the flash partition/windoze autorun stuff - it's not doing anything?

The 3 [ISP] dashboard isn't used either, unless you need to top-up, then it's done via a browser

btw I set up an E160, I think it was, for a mate and a uSD card worked as a spare small flashdrive as sdc1, but it has to be a dongle with a microcard slot, not put it where the sim goes

Aitch

[Aung]

@Aitch,
'not put it where the sim goes' ~!@#$%^&*()_+, I just flamed you you stupid young boy, I might be old but I'm not that stupid, seriously, they all have USB slots, that's their bug-bear and hence their need for 'modeswitch'. Maybe hotwired is not the correct word to use, 'bypass' may be better. There must be memory inside the dongle like a SSD or a SD drive has and it is formatted as a CD rom and nothing can touch it (delete it), except something like diskpar or maybe fdisk that can take it back to its 'raw' state without any sectors. The big question is, after being formatted again without the doze modeswitch CDrom cr*p would pupdial see the dongle hardware and communicate with it. Is there a dongle that does not have a USB micro SD slot built in??? Aung

[Aitch]

Flame away, I've been well and truly cooked

64 years is young...great! thanks
We seem to be at cross purposes here, however

[Billtoo]

I made a vlc-1.1.13-x86_64.sfs

Compiled and tested in fatdog 5.2.1

The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-65577678.html

[Aung]

@ Aitch, O'dear, your still insisting I put the SD card in the SIM slot, I'll move on.
'It is possible to get wifi dongles'
No,no ,no, we are dealing with 'Broardband' modems that need modeswitch.
' you will see the differences in card shapes'
Really, is that why I needed a tack hammer to get the SIM to fit into the USB slot!!!
All jokes aside, thanks for the information about the soldered in rom memory. We shall just have to wait until rerwin can land a 64bit system. The score so far :- Sage 1, Aung nill
Aitch, Can you build Roxterm and Avidemux for Fatdog. I dont know all the things one puts after ./configure. Aung

[Billtoo]

I made a seamonkey-2.6.1-x86_64.pet

It will start from the internet section of the fatdog menu and run as
user root but I think the better way to run it is to open the terminal
and do:
su spot
seamonkey

Then downloads will go to the same directory as firefox which is
outside of your save file (if you setup that way when you installed
fatdog)

The download link is:

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-b06e5989.html

[sebus]

Guys, how to upgrade GCC to 4.6 ?

Thanks

sebus

[prehistoric]

[prehistoric]

More information on my problems with CPUtemp.

[prehistoric]

I now have just about everything working in FD64. CPUtemp doesn't display nicely, but it appears, from the BIOS readings, my processor is maintaining a temperature in the 30s C.

Just for advice to others, I tried to use foomatic-rip + a PPD file for my Samsung ML-1710 printer, which failed. The 64-bit samsung_printer_fd64_3.0.0.65.pet works fine. Foomatic and PPD files are no longer guaranteed fallback options.

I just tried to use the Skype 2.2.0.35.sfs, which calls itself a beta version. This comes up, but then crashes immediately after login. Running it in a terminal yields this message:

[openwell3]

Hi,
Just want to install vlc. Have tried from ppm and ibiblio.
Installs missing many libs and will not start from multimedia tab.
Have just got vlc. sfs from post above. Now what do I do with it?
Newbie, have been using puppy for a year.
Have this on 64bit HP laptop. Happy, except for not being able to find many missing libs for vlc and not installed.
Frugal install, but I have always used "full" for Puppy 528 back to 525.
Do not know what to do with the vlc sfs downloaded.
Many thanks.

[Liboicl]

[kirk]

openwell3,

If you don't want to use the sfs file, the pets you need are:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fatdog/pets/500/vlc-1.1.11.pet

and

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fatdog/pets/500/qt4-4.6.1.pet

Download the pets and then click on them. You'll have to reboot after the qt4 package, then all should be well.

[openwell3]

Thanks to kirk and others for vlc help above.
Now, pburn is installed but missing the "close" plugin to fixate dvds.
It gives error message and when I try link on pburn forum pg 1.
It does nothing?
Anyone know how to get the "close" for fatdog64-521?
Many thanks,