Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Eathray · Joined: 06 Sep 2009 Posts: 724

Hey ttuuxxx and friends,

Can anyone direct me to or provide directions to get Google Talk working in Xchat?

Usually we just go with Pidgin, but I can't find one for 214x. I tried one for 4 series, but wasn't stable.

For the wife, she likes Google Talk, but in a stand alone, not online.

Thanks,

Eathray

dealora · Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 136

Is it possible to connect Realtek 8187 wireless (Wifi) in puppy 2. 14 x how?

Thankyou

Juan (Spain)

starhawk · Posted: Sat 14 Apr 2012, 00:21 Post subject:

Can't seem to get -top9 to load from a USB optical drive... drops out to initial-RAMdisk console when it can't find itself with both hands Wink

seems to assume that all CD drives are IDE... bother Confused

I hope -top10 fixes this... I'm downloading it now, for a VIA C3 based system that has all the computational horsepower of an early '90's pager Laughing

EDIT: ...that would be a no. In fact, it looks like *all* the stuff I type at the boot: prompt is being ignored... I've had this happen with multiple Puppies so I suspect it's a quirk of the hardware I'm using.

EDIT2: Well, I did *something* right this time, and it worked. No idea what. IIRC boot prompt was "puppy pmedia=usbcd pfix=ram,noramsfs". All I know for sure, is that I got it to boot. Finally!

...now, as usual, I need to find a WiFi driver for my card... but I think I can do that myself Wink

starhawk · Posted: Sat 14 Apr 2012, 14:42 Post subject:

...eh, too much trouble from this... I think I'll stick to Puplite5 for my legacy installs... it's faster anyways.

jobo · Joined: 26 Apr 2012 Posts: 111

hi, ive just done a frugal install of 214 by 9 and 10 and it wont recognise mt eithernet conection say no modem/interface detected, , other versions of puppy conect up with no bother

i dont know what modem is built in, but its a very old ibm think pad a21m running windows 98
can any one help me with this

thanks

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6815 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

jobo

A21 modem is usually 'Xircom MPCI+ Modem 56 WinGlobal' in win98, and can be a modem only or modem + network card in the internal pci-e slot

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-4PCRRF

It should use the builtin kernel module LT, AFAIK

Have you tried the network connection wizard?

Aitch Smile

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2849 Location: USA

jobo · Joined: 26 Apr 2012 Posts: 111

yes i did, not its not detecting anything

jobo · Joined: 26 Apr 2012 Posts: 111

any takers on this, ive since load puppy lipy retro and that connected no problem, just ran though the wizard, but id still like to give this version ago

alphadog · Posted: Fri 18 May 2012, 14:00 Post subject:

Hello anybody there?
I would like to install 214x on my OLD laptop (running as live cd and a save file at the moment). Specs for lappy below in my sig.
I have a problem, for some reason I cannot change the desktop wallpaper.
When I click on desktop background (using themes icon on desktop) a blue box is saying "generating thumbnails. please wait" and then another window flashes open and instantly disappears.
xerrs log attached.
I am no linux guru so be gentle with me!

greengeek · Posted: Fri 18 May 2012, 14:25 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 18 May 2012, 16:09 Post subject:

alphadog · Posted: Sat 19 May 2012, 02:47 Post subject:

Ok mate will try this out later today or tomorrow. I'm at work now . Will definately report back. Because after all, community help is what makes puppy what it is, GRRRReat!

alphadog · Posted: Sat 19 May 2012, 11:21 Post subject:

Yay thanks ttuuxxx that solved the problem!
Onwards and upwards!

jobo · Joined: 26 Apr 2012 Posts: 111