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[01micko]

Nothing wrong with that. Should work. The older package I got though didn't have them, does your latest? (Guess I'll find out, grabbing now!)

EDIT: No, no links!

[rerwin]

The "hooks" link is already in precise. Could you simply create one in slacko and be done with it? I assume you already make some mods to it; that could be one more.

Or are there other things in the libexec directory, so that you cannot have both the directory and a link to the other? If that is the case, I could check for that situation and create the "99-" links in the pinstall script. Or you could make them for slacko-14.

[01micko]

[rerwin]

I meant that you modify slacko, so could add the links. But, if you don't want to do that, just tell me and I will update the pinstall script.

[01micko]

It's ok, I can add it to my general pinstall that takes care of other stuff. The only concern I have is for retrofitting for slacko-5.4 (and 5.3x) users, unless of course it's no trouble to you.

As I said, by the next slackware it looks like they are moving to the debian path (/lib/dhcpcd) anyway, so just a note for older slacko users would suffice, or a I can post a separate script to take care of it for them and you could link to it. I may even do it at the top of the 5.4 bugs thread.

I know the amount of work you have put into this, especially the icon, and it is very much appreciated. I know blokes like cthisbear will appreciate it because he recommends to everyone to install frisbee.

[rerwin]

Now, I get it! I could not resist working something up for 20130227. I will PM the updated version for you to try. Tell me how it works soon so I can re-upload it for everyone.

[01micko]

It didn't attach!.. Please redo PM

EDIT:

Ok, got it now, and works,

Thanks

[01micko]

...just some feedback,

I have been solely using frisbee on my 3 testers with the latest slacko-5.4.0.5 and no problems. My main box is still using eth1 and the icons are blinking now, so I don't know what fixed it but hey, I'll take it

On my main laptop I have been switching between wlan0 and ppp0 with no problems. The ppp connection is through my mobile phone. I don't have a dialup account to test the icon switching script but I did a lab test on that script and it looks good.

As a feature request, not urgent, I wonder if it's possible to call the frisbee GUI from the tray icon when ppp is disconnected? As said, not a top priority. Too late in the development cycle to risk stability anyway, just a thought for the future.

Judging by the lack of others' feedback there mustn't bee too many problems!

Cheers

[mavrothal]

Tried frisbee-1.0-20130228 from the noarch repo in Racy 5.5.
Does not appear to work unless you first use another connection tool and connect to a wifi network.
Also when it does work eventually, it goes to full screen mode.(see picture)

I also attach the terminal output where looks like that frisbee has trouble finding wpa components

[peebee]

There seems to be something missing from the new Racy 5.5 that stops Frisbee detecting any wifi signals OOB.

As mavrothal mentions above, if another Network Manager like SNS is used first then the wifi signals do also appear in Frisbee.

pdiag output attached.

Cheers
peebee

[rerwin]

As a result of collaboration by PM with peebee and mavrothal, I have made some further small improvements to frisbee and re-implemented the dhcpcd hooks for notifying the user and network_tray icon, as well as frisbee itself, of changes in the state of the network interfaces.

Because we discovered that some PCs require the "dropwait" feature added to the dhcpcd in precise pup, I am including it in a "kit" tarball for installation to the "5.5" versions of puppies built with the recent versions of woof. Note that the dhcpcd_dropwait package is identical to that in precise 5.5, so it need not be installed to precise pup again from the tarball.

The main mods to frisbee are:

- The "Enable Wireless" checkbox is now "Connect WiFi Automatically". Previously, that checkbox only indicated the connection state, setting the check mark if a connection existed. It did not control wireless across reboots, as the label might imply. Now, unchecking the box actually prevents the automatic connect at boot-up, as requested by one of the participants in this thread.

- A new checkbox, "Announce State Changes" lets the user control whether the state-change splash pop-ups appear, per a request I saw a while ago.

- Some spacing changes now avoid clumping buttons and checkboxes to the right side of the window.

- To support developers using frisbee as the main/default network manager, I added an install option dialog offering to pre-set frisbee as the default and set flags so that frisbee itself need not be run to start the pop-ups and make the first (ethernet) connection. But it would be needed initially to select a wireless network.

The state-change notification dhcpcd hooks are consolidated into the single file, 99-notify, including the logic of the dhcpcd-hooks script, in a manner similar to that used by the existing hook code-fragment files, probably to execute efficiently.

This catches me up on the to-do list AFAIK, except for upgrading the network_tray-2.6 to better handle multiple active network interfaces. If any further problems/issues arise, please report them here for my attention. I am open to adapting frisbee further to maximize its convenience and usefulness.
Richard

[peebee]

Hi Richard

Tested the new version of Frisbee in the 5.5_kit....

On Precise, if I answer "Yes" to the new startup question I get a screen with all buttons greyed out and no wifi signals detected - see screenie attached.

On Precise, Slacko, UpupPrecise3.8.2, Wary5.5 and Racy5.5 if I answer "No" to the new question I get no wifi signals detected until I tick the new "Automatic Wifi Connection" (Which is unticked by default) and a Refresh occurs - manually or by timeout.

Interestingly, the dhcpcd-drop-wait pet is NO LONGER needed in either Wary or Racy with this new Frisbee so maybe doesn't need to be in the kit?

However for both Wary and Racy although a wifi connection is established, the Network Tray does not update and continues to show the red cross.

All of this is tests on pristine frugal pfix=ram installs of each Puppy with no savefile - problems may be different after reboot and savefile creation but this has not been tested.

Cheers
peebee

[mavrothal]

Hi Richard,
I tested 5.5 kit in my "problem" machines with Racy and looks good.
In my case the tray icon changes as expected.
I find too that dhcpcd-dropwait is not required (nor the older Jemimah's wpa_suplicant I was using at times with Racy).
I would also agree with peebee that the /etc/frisbee/.wireless_autostart flag should be on by default. Frisbee was established primarily as a WiFi connection manager

[rerwin]

[peebee]