Wary 1.0.2 (102) feedback

[pakt]

zygo, thanks.

My Huawei E1550 (in Quirky 130) connects every time with this as init string:

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AT &FE0 V1 X1 &D2 &C1 S0=0

I also dial

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ATDT*99***1#

That init string does indeed work - I'm connected using it right now.

I recognize that init string from the log file when I ran the modem in windows.
It's interesting to see that there is no mention of 'AT+CGDCONT=1' in that log.

Note that this dial string

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*99#

is enough. At least it works for me (plus your init string).

Here's the pupdial.log (for Barry)

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--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.53
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: AT+CPIN=<myPIN>
AT+CPIN=<myPIN>
OK
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: AT&FE0V1X1&D2&C1S0=0
AT&FE0V1X1&D2&C1S0=0
OK
--> Sending: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","net.tre.se"
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.
NO CARRIER
--> No Carrier!  Trying again.
--> Sending: ATDT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.
NO CARRIER
--> No Carrier!  Trying again.
--> Sending: ATDT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.
CONNECT 3600000
--> Carrier detected.  Waiting for prompt.
--> Don't know what to do!  Starting pppd and hoping for the best.
--> Starting pppd at Tue Dec 14 08:30:41 2010
--> pid of pppd: 12986

[Shep]

I also dial

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ATDT*99***1#

Any idea what the extra stuff is supposed to achieve over plain *99#

[zygo]

Shep,
My guess: The modem can store groups of settings. ATDT*99***1# uses the first group and *99# uses the default group. If there's only one group then it is the default.

pakt,
I might have got my string from ms xp -- I don't remember. I wonder, was the old string wired into wvdial.conf or was it the result of interrogating the modem?

Mine connects at the same speed in Puppy and ms -- 3,600,000b/s. Does yours? But the marketing says 7,200,000. Funny that it is exactly half.

Also, the carrier is detected straight away for me.

[neurino]

Master volume does not affect sound nor muting works, I can set PCM volume in Retrovol.

Sound card is an integrated one...

Master volume worked flawlessly in Wary 030 (I know, not much of help...)

Also conversation quality in Skype is the worst ever, I may guess it's Mic control unaffecting too...

Any tip?

[neurino]

I can't get my win key to work... (never had success with Wary, no problems in Puppeee)

I add lines in xorg.conf

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Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
	Option      "XkbModel" "pc102"
	Option      "XkbLayout" "it" #xkeymap0
	Option      "XkbOptions" "altwin:super_win"
EndSection

and in jwmrc-personal

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<Key mask="P" key="D">desktop#</Key>

but the "Win-d" acts like a plain "d".

I read and tried all examples on forum, I also got Fn key combinations to work but no Win key ...

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Also about keys:

In alsamixer opened in urxvt pressing F3, F4 ecc. keys causes program to terminate and get a printed tilde ~

Thanks

[DaveS]

I can't get my win key to work... (never had success with Wary, no problems in Puppeee)

I add lines in xorg.conf

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Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
	Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
	Option      "XkbModel" "pc102"
	Option      "XkbLayout" "it" #xkeymap0
	Option      "XkbOptions" "altwin:super_win"
EndSection

and in jwmrc-personal

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<Key mask="P" key="D">desktop#</Key>

but the "Win-d" acts like a plain "d".

I read and tried all examples on forum, I also got Fn key combinations to work but no Win key ...

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Also about keys:

In alsamixer opened in urxvt pressing F3, F4 ecc. keys causes program to terminate and get a printed tilde ~

Thanks

This is the keycode I use for the win key

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<Key keycode="117">exec:yourchoice</Key>

in jwmrc-personal

[neurino]

Thanks but, well I can get the keycode with xev (115 for me), but I want Win key to act as a mask for the win-d combination I'm used plus others

the win key has the advantage it's on the left and I can use it without leaving the mouse with the right one and not being used by softwares to build shortcuts

[neurino]

pburn hangs when trying to blank a cd/rw:

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# cdrecord -scanbus
wodim: No such file or directory. 
Cannot open SCSI driver!
For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'.
For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from
the wodim documentation.

(I guess it will not let me burn anything)

worked flawlessly in Wary 030

[scsijon]

just found I get server error on ibiblio for wary-102.iso.
checked and found it is on nluug also.
link below:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... /wary-102/
regards
scsijon
barry has been notified via his blog.

[rjbrewer]

pburn hangs when trying to blank a cd/rw:

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# cdrecord -scanbus
wodim: No such file or directory. 
Cannot open SCSI driver!
For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'.
For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from
the wodim documentation.

(I guess it will not let me burn anything)

worked flawlessly in Wary 030

Just tried a fast-blank of cd-rw with Pburn;
worked fine.

[BarryK]

pburn hangs when trying to blank a cd/rw:

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# cdrecord -scanbus
wodim: No such file or directory. 
Cannot open SCSI driver!
For possible targets try 'wodim --devices' or 'wodim -scanbus'.
For possible transport specifiers try 'wodim dev=help'.
For IDE/ATAPI devices configuration, see the file README.ATAPI.setup from
the wodim documentation.

(I guess it will not let me burn anything)

worked flawlessly in Wary 030

Would you kindly report this to the Pburn thread, or send a pm to zigbert.

I also noticed a problem with Pburn -- I set the temporary storage path, but it was not remembered and later reverted to default.

[scsijon]

Update1
Box1 - Acer v3700gx - E'net sat link

problem1: Video probe picked i810 instead of intel (i915), dropped out of x, ran xorgwizard, selected intel all ok manually.

problem2: took two runs to get ethernet to setup eth0 (dlink dge-530T Gigabite), then had to run firewall to access outside, no default access????

problem3: desktop Drive Icons Manager, ticked box to say erase then redraw and realigh existing icons, didn't work with just a jwm restart or xserver restart, needed a reboot to happen.

warning 1: I downloaded and confirm that firefox pet doesn't work from nluug, also alsa-lib >seems to be a dependancy of a few packages (maybe should be indefault build). Could only find a tar, not a pet
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Origonal message:
box2 - Home built but gigabyte where possible - dialup winmodem

problem 1: didn't descover my video card (Radeon HD4350), usually probe works ok, 102 wouldn't either probe or select "radeon" had to use vesa to load video.

modem ok and dials out ok (3 woofs for that).

Warning 1: Downloader for ppm kept dropping out and restarting with nluug.

Problems 2/3: downloads
Pet: Firefox-3.6.9-w5.pet, no icons on install, further look, no firefox.desktop, /opt/firefox seems to be a mess after install, can't even run from itself. Maybe corrupt.
Pet: Bluefish-2.0.2-w5.pet, missing alsa-lib.:: doesn't seem to be affecting it run though.

@barry - should we include the w5 pet problems here or ....

regards
scsijon

[neurino]

Would you kindly report this to the Pburn thread, or send a pm to zigbert.

I'll do it but it seems to me a cdrecord issue being not able to find my device.

Cheers

[pakt]

Seem like my Huawei E1550 3G USB dongle only connects very sporadically.
Most of the time the log shows that it's 'Waiting for carrier' and gets the response "NO CARRIER".
This then continues over and over until I exit the wizard.
It's almost as if the dialer doesn't wait long enough to detect the carrier.

I tested with the default settings as well as with zygo's init string and with both '*99***1# and *99#, but none made any difference.

[01micko]

Seem like my Huawei E1550 3G USB dongle only connects very sporadically.
Most of the time the log shows that it's 'Waiting for carrier' and gets the response "NO CARRIER".
This then continues over and over until I exit the wizard.
It's almost as if the dialer doesn't wait long enough to detect the carrier.

I tested with the default settings as well as with zygo's init string and with both '*99***1# and *99#, but none made any difference.

pakt

Just see if you can search around for the authentication your isp uses. Virgin here uses CHAP, but nearly all use PAP. I had a similar situation to yours awhile ago that is why I am mentioning this. I appended -chap to /etc/ppp/options to fix it, but now there is a special case with the file /etc/wvdial_options/APN-VirginBroadband.

Just an idea that I hope may help.

Cheers

[alec78]

Hi all,
@pakt
Have you ticked the stupid mode box in Pupdial?
Cheers

[technosaurus]

For those of you that wish to remove pre-installed packages before remastering, I threw together this little script with a very basic gui and reverse dependency checking (only informational - it does not automatically select the reverse dependencies for removal). It should work with most if not all recent woof-built variants.

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#!/bin/sh
D=$HOME/.packages/builtin_files
PKGS=`ls -1 $D`
PKG=`Xdialog --stdout --combobox "select package to remove" 0 0 $PKGS`
[ $PKG ] && Xdialog --yesno "Reverse dependencies:
`cat $HOME/.packages/woof-installed-packages |grep +$PKG |cut -d "|" -f2`

Continue?" 0 0 && [ $? ] && for x in `cat $D/$PKG`; do [ -d $x ] && cd $x || rm $x; done && rm $D/$PKG && $0

Note:pasted from an XP machine => may need dos2unix

[01micko]

Hi all,
@pakt
Have you ticked the stupid mode box in Pupdial?
Cheers

+1

(forgot to mention that)

Cheers

[rerwin]

Barry - and anyone needing to correct the 8139 issue immediately,
The reason the preference of 8139too over 8139cp is ignored is an error in /sbin/pup_event_backend_modprobe. Line 127 is

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 if [ "$xMODULE" = "$PREFHIT" ];then

But a trace I made of a different case shows the following:

MODULE: dgcusbdcp PREFHIT: dgcusbdcp:cdc_acm PREFMOD: cdc_acm

The correct statement for that line is:

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 if [ "$xMODULE" = "$PREFMOD" ];then

This should work for most (normal) cases.

But the story gets messier if a module has an "install" entry in the modprobe configuration files, causing the algorithm to fail. The module in my case has such a configuration statement, which shows up in the output from "modprobe --show_depends". The resulting name of the preferred module is a fragment of the install statement!

xMODULE: modprobe __ignore_install cdc_acm

which is an edited fragment of

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install cdc_acm /sbin/modprobe dgcusbdcp; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install cdc_acm

The entire statement as it appears in "show_depends" is

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install /sbin/modprobe dgcusbdcp; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install cdc_acm

Only the module name -- the part we need -- is missing from the "show_depends" copy.

EDIT (after a night's sleep):This conflict, for me, is a result of the preference failure. With the fix -- and after "erasing" the detected modem -- the dgc config file (and its 'install') would have been absent, since the preference would prevail. So far, the install-preference conflict does not appear to be a problem. But we need to keep it in mind whenever considering using an "install" statement for a module that is also a "preferred" alternative. /EDIT

I am concerned, too, that the current preference logic ignores the possibility that more than two modules may claim a device. The HSF, slamr and intel onboard-modem chips all have modaliases for the same modem. And on top of that, the device might also need agrmodem, although that is not in a modalias, but in a udev rule.

EDIT: I am also concerned that the 8139cp problem is addressed by only the preference treatment. There are 2 modaliases referencing 8139cp:

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alias pci:v00000357d0000000Asv*sd*bc*sc*i* 8139cp
alias pci:v000010ECd00008129sv*sd*bc*sc*i* 8139too
alias pci:v000010ECd00008138sv*sd*bc*sc*i* 8139too
alias pci:v000010ECd00008139sv*sd*bc*sc*i* 8139cp
alias pci:v000010ECd00008139sv*sd*bc*sc*i* 8139too

The first will not be overridden by the preference function. I believe the way to handle that is to create a PCI_OVERRIDES
entry for it in MODULESCONFIG:

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PCI_OVERRIDES='
(none) 0x0000127a 0x00004321 #Rockwell riptide modem not supported by driver
8139too 0x00000357 0x0000000a #override 8139cp
'

This along with the preference can replace the old 8139 logic omitted from the zzz package, that made the substitution for all loading of 8139cp. This change depends on whether 8139cp should actually be used for the first modalias.

In addition, to be consistent, perhaps the preference should be eliminated and replaced by another override for the remaining modalias, which is what the old logic accomplished:

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8139too 0x000010ec 0x00008139 #override 8139cp

Richard

[BarryK]

bc, gnu benchcalculator is not working in scripts
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=195
if that is possible to fix (replace it with earlier version?) there is an improved xgamma-gui
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=135

'bc' fixed:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02030