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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 5056 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere...
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Posted: Sun 03 Jul 2016, 19:26 Post subject:
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Did not work initially... however, I've done so much wireless testing on that thing that I've kind of become my own enemy. There's a half dozen wireless utilities on there, at least...
I'm going to do a reinstall and see what happens.
EDIT: After no fewer than four of my CD drives refused to work (!) and the hard drive in the CPi decided to die (at least according to BIOS) -- I'm calling it quits for the evening... if I don't I'm going to have to learn to alcoholic and that's not something I want.
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 5056 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere...
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2016, 13:08 Post subject:
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I think I may have a workaround for the CardBus problem... esbelugas, I'll still try your script
Turns out I have a USB 1.1 hub that takes external power (it has a switch that takes it from self-powered to wall-powered). The CPi has only one USB port -- which is why I didn't want to use a USB WiFi card -- but with a hub, things are a little different...
Doesn't much matter, though, with the hard drive busted. (I hope it's the drive and not the controller... I should probably test that, though.)
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 5056 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere...
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2016, 14:35 Post subject:
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Weeeeeeeeell... I installed Precise 571 non-Retro this time.
More things work, but the sound demon has returned. The driver doesn't exist at all in Precise 571 Regular.
Anyone want to compile it for me? I need the applicable one for a Crystal 4237B sound chip. IIRC the driver is called cs4236... please no SSE anything in the compile target, I'm rocking a Pentium II here.
I'd do it myself, but I really don't fancy the idea of compiling even that on a 300MHz P2 with a quarter gig of RAM. I'd be there all afternoon.
EDIT: Never mind... even *USB* WiFi cards refuse to work here. Screw it, I'm installing ClassicPup. It's deathly slow but it will probably actually work...
EDIT2: no, I'm just setting it aside. I had to hard power-off it after the CD drive in it refused to work (WTH?!) and once again it won't boot right.
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Mike Walsh

Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 4620 Location: King's Lynn, UK.
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2016, 17:28 Post subject:
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Hey, starhawk.
Sounds like your hardware is throwing not just one 'wobbly', but a whole series of them...
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 5056 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere...
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2016, 18:09 Post subject:
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It's a rebellious 17 year old, what do you expect?
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Mike Walsh

Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 4620 Location: King's Lynn, UK.
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2016, 18:13 Post subject:
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starhawk wrote: | It's a rebellious 17 year old, what do you expect?  |
^^^ 'Nuff said..! I remember what I was like at that age... You've definitely got your work cut out, old son...
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 5056 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere...
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2016, 18:38 Post subject:
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Actually, this one's probably got me fired up once too many. I can't really do with it what I wanted -- so it's probably headed to the local tech shop for recycling, come Thursday. Of course I'll strip it of anything meaningfully useful first...
...which of course won't be much. The RAM is actually valuable because it's very very weird (look up "EDO memory" some time... they didn't make it for long, and they haven't made it in forever), and I just put a 1.8" SSD in the drive tray, with an adapter, and that assembly is staying with me. That's about it, TBH.
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esbelugas
Joined: 03 Jul 2016 Posts: 5 Location: Yorkshire, UK
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2016, 19:38 Post subject:
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> this one's probably got me fired up once too many
Sometimes it's worth one more go. Sometimes it isn't. Maybe sleep on it and then decide.
> look up "EDO memory" some time
Definitely worth keeping hold of this, I think. I bought some used EDO memory a short while ago - difficult to find and 8Mb cost me as much as 4Gb of SDRAM!
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 5056 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere...
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2016, 19:52 Post subject:
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8mb? That sounds like 30pin SIMMs. You got a 386 or sumptin?
That Dell takes a max of 256mb, and that's what it's got -- 2x 128mb sticks. They were a Christmas present last year
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esbelugas
Joined: 03 Jul 2016 Posts: 5 Location: Yorkshire, UK
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Posted: Tue 05 Jul 2016, 08:49 Post subject:
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My mistake - it was 32Mb EDO, 72 pin. I bought it for an old system board (think it was Socket A based), but sadly the board went belly-up shortly after I took it out of storage.
I did buy a 72-pin 8Mb module at the same time, but it was regular FPM to add to a late model 486 (16Mb total). No chance of running Puppy on this box, so I'm planning to install FreeSCO and see what it can do as a network appliance.
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 5056 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere...
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Posted: Tue 05 Jul 2016, 18:14 Post subject:
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FPM is not regular it's just as weird as EDO. Both were briefly common around the time the dinosaurs went extinct...
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TIW
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Posted: Mon 06 Mar 2017, 17:06 Post subject:
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Hi. I have deleted Seamonkey from precise.5.7.1 but find those Seamonkey icons coming back in /.confg/rox.sourceforge.net/OpenWith
Why are they coming back ? How to stop them from doing so ?
Thanks for your help.
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bigpup

Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 11725 Location: S.C. USA
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Posted: Mon 06 Mar 2017, 17:10 Post subject:
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Did you delete it by using "Remove Builtin Packages"?
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Semme

Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 7896 Location: World_Hub
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Posted: Tue 07 Mar 2017, 09:06 Post subject:
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*On second thought, I'll pass..
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snayak
Joined: 14 Sep 2011 Posts: 420
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Posted: Fri 28 Jul 2017, 05:38 Post subject:
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Dear All,
I am using Precise puppy on my AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (512MB RAM) machine.
I downloaded precise-5.7.1-retro.iso and devx_precise_5.7.1.sfs from http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/precise-5.7.1/.
Where should I look for the following pakages?
1. Java
2. Python
3. Virtual Box
4. Kernel sources for 3.2.48
Didn't find them at sfs folder http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/sfs/.
Kindly guide.
Sincerely,
Srinivas Nayak
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