Improved Network Wizard (and rc.network)
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Hey Dougal,
Turned out to be faulty hardware. IE: The 16 bit PCMCIA card. Confirmed it using several OS and laptops. The card would turn on, blink, throw back a hit every now and then and then finally no hits at at. The laptops would pick up the card and the LED would flash through all steps like normal. Very annoying. It's taken a week off working on my Libretto only pupplet,
That's always a potential issue with old hardware unfortunately.
I have replacements coming via eBay. The nice thing about old hardware is it's cheap, if not free to replace.
Thanks for all your help.
The tip about loading the module through the bootloader was great. No more need to mess with rc.local . i82365 module works fine on the Libretto 50, 70, 100, 110 laptops. The "# this driver is broken and should not be loaded automatically" is probably the reason why it's turned off in Puppy at boot up. Without it. PCMCIA is not detected at all.
Again thank you for your time and attention to this. You went well above and beyond.
Hopefully, some of the issues I posted above will help you troubleshoot faulty hardware as being the cause if it comes up again in the future.
Turned out to be faulty hardware. IE: The 16 bit PCMCIA card. Confirmed it using several OS and laptops. The card would turn on, blink, throw back a hit every now and then and then finally no hits at at. The laptops would pick up the card and the LED would flash through all steps like normal. Very annoying. It's taken a week off working on my Libretto only pupplet,
That's always a potential issue with old hardware unfortunately.
I have replacements coming via eBay. The nice thing about old hardware is it's cheap, if not free to replace.
Thanks for all your help.
The tip about loading the module through the bootloader was great. No more need to mess with rc.local . i82365 module works fine on the Libretto 50, 70, 100, 110 laptops. The "# this driver is broken and should not be loaded automatically" is probably the reason why it's turned off in Puppy at boot up. Without it. PCMCIA is not detected at all.
Again thank you for your time and attention to this. You went well above and beyond.
Hopefully, some of the issues I posted above will help you troubleshoot faulty hardware as being the cause if it comes up again in the future.
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What I don't understand is why there isn't a download link on page 1 of this post with the latest version or on your last post, I looked around 10 of 40 pages here and nothing, not a single link.
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
i think dougal removed it after some discussions with whodo. but you'll find the last updated version here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40537
aragon
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40537
aragon
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thanks aragon
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
yes, some people use static ip with wireless
Yes, some people do use static ip with wireless.
Fewer dropouts (no issues with dhcp lease renewals)
But also because I am sharing printers through my router to a Ubuntu desktop.
Fewer dropouts (no issues with dhcp lease renewals)
But also because I am sharing printers through my router to a Ubuntu desktop.
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Re: yes, some people use static ip with wireless
Anyone who (shame on them) has to use Windoze will find it beneficial as 'doze will relinquish a lease if it goes offline (e.g. it hibernates) which is quite understandable, but then the problem comes when it is woken up again as it will try and use the same I/P address again. Meanwhile the Router may well have allocated it to another user and you have an immediate problem.imnotrich wrote:Yes, some people do use static ip with wireless.
Fewer dropouts (no issues with dhcp lease renewals)
But also because I am sharing printers through my router to a Ubuntu desktop.
It must be feasible to configure it to not behave like this otherwise communities with a large number of users would encounter this all the time, but in my experience most 'doze versions misbehave like this out of the box.
I get round this by assigning the I/P address by MAC address in the Router, so the clients can use simple option to 'Let DHCP allocate the I/P address' and don't need to be any the wiser.
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