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Dewbie

#4696 Post by Dewbie »

PenguinPupLin wrote:
I've just downloaded the Seamonkey-2.3.3.pet from wisdom-seekers.com and used Rox-filer to installed it in 214X-TOP and then rebooted the PC but it still fails to work when I click the menu icon. What's missing or done wrongly? Please help.
I installed an official SeaMonkey build after experiencing the same problems.
Instructions are here.
(You might want to go to SeaMonkey's website and select a newer version.)

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#4697 Post by sullysat »

Okay so two so far have had problems with this package. Anyone else?

I'm guessing it just doesn't work right with the latest version for some reason.. ttuuxxx?

If necessary I'll take this one down.

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#4698 Post by Dewbie »

I had the exact same problem/terminal error with SeaMonkey 1.1.16.pet, which was posted quite a while ago.
(For the record, I have Classic Pup 2.14xRC5, which came out a few months after 1.1.16.)

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#4699 Post by tempestuous »

PenguinPupLin wrote:the wireless cardbus adapter DLink DWL-G630 isn't recognized as ra0
PenguinPupLin, be careful about your use of the work "recognised". If you can see "ra0" listed in the Network Wizard, this means that a valid wifi interface has been created, so your wifi device is definitely recognised.
Whether this wifi device functions properly in Puppy is a separate issue.
PenguinPupLin wrote:scanning shows no network available.
Again, if you initiate scanning, it means you have a basic level of wifi functionality. "Recognition" is not the problem.
What model of wifi router do you have? What is its SSID (identifier)? What type of encryption have you set on this router - none, WEP, WPA, or WPA2?
I see this in one of your other posts on this forum -
PenguinPupLin wrote:My wireless pcmcia adapter,DLink DWL-G630, is not detected(no modem available)
If you see reference to the word "modem" you're using the wrong section of the Network Wizard. Wifi devices are seen by Puppy as network interfaces, not modems.
Do you really have a wifi router at all?? Could you be mistaking a wireless internet service (such as 3G) for wifi?

And from another of your forum posts -
PenguinPupLin wrote:web browser failed to find server/load page even though my wireless adapter was connected apparently(except the network status info not working) - I suspect it's due to my IP server limitation, max 6 connections which I exceeded.
Your internet service provider has no way of knowing how many (local) wifi connections you have. They give you a single connection - this is your WAN. You distribute that connection locally on your LAN, with as many clients (wired/wifi) as you choose.
Do you really have a wifi router?

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#4700 Post by PenguinPupLin »

Thanks for yr response. I do hv a wireless router,ZyXEL NBG-417N,set to wpa2,the other PCs' wireless connections are working fine. Even this pcmcia wireless adapter DWL-G630 is working alrigth with WinXP and Quickset Wary511Puppy on the same acer travelmate TM630 notebk. Indeed,under 214X,the wireless interface shows ra0,unknown driver,and clicking "scan" shows no network available,testing ra0 shows no modem detected. I actually tried to load the ndiswrapper and auto-configure the available modules provided by zdr sfs but none recognised the interface. I also did pccardctl ident and it shows only the onboard o2micro smartcard,not the DLink DWL-G630 pcmcia wireless adapter. My ISP provider confirmed the 6 connections limitation,so what I did is to reset it by power-cycle the router and Motorola modem provided by the ISP - sometimes that works whenever I add a new connection but not in this case for the DLink DWL-G630. Sorry to trouble you so much, I really appreciate it,and it has been a learning process for me,esp with regard to Puppy Linux and its variants. It's thanks to ppl like you all that we could revive a 10-yr-old notebk that would probably either be discarded or lying around somewhere to rot.

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#4701 Post by tempestuous »

The wifi driver that 214x-Top9.0 has automatically loaded is almost certainly rt61. You could confirm this by running this command -

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lsmod
First I suggest you update to the latest version of this driver - rt61-20090412, from
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 232#316232

Then reboot. Run the Network Wizard again.
If the scan still fails, don't worry. Go ahead and try to configure the connection just by entering the correct connection information - ESSID, encryption-type, password.
If all else fails, configure the wifi connection with manual commands, following this HOWTO -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 336#159336

Of course, I hope that you have not attempted to install a Windows driver with ndiswrapper, because this may be interfering with the (Linux) rt61 driver. If so, you will need to delete the savefile to create a first-boot environment.

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#4702 Post by PenguinPupLin »

Yes,lsmod showed rt61;update as u instructed;reboot and reconfigure,network scan and select my network,etc, and it WORKS! (except,my fault, I forgot to disconnect my wired lan eth0 and had to reboot again). Now open Aurora,the pages cannot load because of my ISP max 6 connections limitation, the wireless connection itself is alright,I'm sure. A big thank-you to tempestuous,no wonder they call you the King of Drivers
Btw, the network status info isn't called up when I right-click the system tray icon, I had to use rutilt or pwireless to check my wireless connection status.
One more thing,just in case I did ndiswrapper the windows driver tho I remember I did it in RAM mode and didn't save the configuration,how do I delete the savefile (u r not referring to pupsave file do u, which I know how to do but all my settings and software installations will be gone,I hope not)?
Sorry,another thing,RutilT and Pwireless show my network cipher as WEP when it should be WPA2.

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#4703 Post by tempestuous »

Yes, I was suggesting you delete the pupsave file, but since the rt61 driver is now obviously working, there's no conflicting ndiswrapper stuff happening, and no need to delete the pupsave.
PenguinPupLin wrote:another thing, RutilT and Pwireless show my network cipher as WEP when it should be WPA2.
I'm not familiar with these utilities, but it sounds like just a case of failing to report the right information - there's no actual problem with the connection.
Be careful not to set a configuration with Pwireless and/or RutilT - such configurations are likely to compete with the Network Wizard configuration, and corrupt your wifi connection at bootup.

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#4704 Post by PenguinPupLin »

Oh dear, I was too impatient and just did use RutilT and Pwireless to set and save a new configuratiion, and then even used netword wizard to reconfigure my wireless encryption as WPA-TKIP instead of WPA2 and rebooted. Now what a mess I've created,please advise before further damage is done,so sorry to keep nagging you with this problem,just that I don't relish going back to running lan cable across the room :oops: :)
Anyway,still unable to establish wpa connection,probably due to my ISP limitation which means I've to reset the router but not now as it would affect my other PCs' wireless connection.

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#4705 Post by tempestuous »

i) open /root/.config/rutilt/RutilT_options.xml in Geany. It should contain just this default content -

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Options>
    <DisplayTrayIcon>1</DisplayTrayIcon>
    <StartMinimized>0</StartMinimized>
    <LeaveRootDelay>0</LeaveRootDelay>
</Options>
ii) delete /root/.config/Pwireless

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#4706 Post by PenguinPupLin »

tempestuous wrote:i) open /root/.config/rutilt/RutilT_options.xml in Geany. It should contain just this default content -

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Options>
    <DisplayTrayIcon>1</DisplayTrayIcon>
    <StartMinimized>0</StartMinimized>
    <LeaveRootDelay>0</LeaveRootDelay>
</Options>
ii) delete /root/.config/Pwireless
Done,thank you so much. Still trying to get a wpa connection even after resetting the router once,will keep trying. :D

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#4707 Post by PenguinPupLin »

Finally able to get wpa connection established but after changing encryption to wpa+tkip instead of wpa2. Wonder why and if there's anything that can be done about it,not that it matters a lot.
Thanks so much to tempestuous,again.
Also noticed the rt61.sys pet that I updated is for kernel 2.6.18.1,does it mean it's different from the ones found in newer puppies/kernels,eg my Wary511 and puppy 431 showed the driver description as Ralink RT2561/RT61 B 802,11g and they work fine as is for my Wireless pcmcia adapter DLink DWL-G630?

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#4708 Post by tempestuous »

PenguinPupLin wrote:Also noticed the rt61.sys pet that I updated is for kernel 2.6.18.1,does it mean it's different from the ones found in newer puppies/kernels
Yes, critically different!!
Everyone on this forum needs to get it into their heads that drivers are kernel-sensitive.

Newer kernels will have an updated driver for your device called "rt61pci" (not "rt61").

And be careful about your reference to "sys". That's Windows-speak. It has nothing to do with Linux drivers.

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wifi for Legacy OS 2

#4709 Post by PenguinPupLin »

Hi again,tempestuos,need you to the rescue,this time for Legacy OS2 which,if I'm not wrong,is based on puppy 2.14 using kernel 2.6.18.1, similar to Classic Pup 214X-TOP9 for which,with your expert and valuable help,I was able to connect wifi with wpa+tkip. :D
Likewise,I installed the rt61.pet which is also for kernel 2.6.18.1,so I thought it should work However,I don't even get my network interface detected,there is no wlan0 ra0 to choose from,only eth0 for wired lan.
I understand,Legacy OS 2 has made clear they provide minimal wifi support;hoped I'm not pushing it;after all,I'm using the same hardware on a somewhat quite similar Puppy.
One more thing,running Rutilt showed "Can't find any wireless network interface. Do you have the wireless extensions compiled in your kernel? Code:130".

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#4710 Post by ttuuxxx »

Been sick for the past 2 weeks with a really bad cold, now I'm on 2 types of meds, grrr anyways I compiled a few static wxgtk apps that might work on other puppy versions with a couple of system links :) :)

MultiVNC is a cross-platform Multicast-enabled VNC viewer using wxWidgets and libvncclient . It runs on Unix, Mac OS X and Windows. Features include support for most encodings, ZeroConf service discovery and a seamless edge control mode á la x2vnc.
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/S ... 1-i386.pet

DivFix++ is yours AVI video repair and preview software. It designed for repair and preview files which are on download from ed2k(emule), torrent, gnutella, ftp. web or any other source on the internet. It can repair AVI and DivX files (for now.) <--- tested and works great, I might add it to the next release since its just under 1MB
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/S ... 4-i386.pet


CryptoTE is a text editor with integrated strong cryptography. It is based on the popular Scintilla widget and automatically stores text data in secure encrypted container files. Compared to other "password keeper" programs, CryptoTE does not force any structure upon your data: it works with plain ASCII text and does not require you to fill in grids, key-value attributes, descriptions etc. Encryption is transparently performed using the highly-secure Serpent cipher. The editing interface is thoroughly optimized for speed and ease of use. Multiple subfiles, Quick-Find and a two-click random password generator make daily use very convenient.
http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/S ... 0-i386.pet

ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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#4711 Post by James C »

Hope you start feeling better soon. :)

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#4712 Post by ttuuxxx »

James C wrote:Hope you start feeling better soon. :)
Thanks James I'm around 70% and have to work on Monday, so I think I should be fine by then. :)
ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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#4713 Post by PenguinPupLin »

ttuuxxx wrote:
James C wrote:Hope you start feeling better soon. :)
Thanks James I'm around 70% and have to work on Monday, so I think I should be fine by then. :)
ttuuxxx
Wish you the best of health and wellbeing always! You're one of the important pillars of Puppy Linux. Puppy Rules,Long Live Puppy!

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#4714 Post by ttuuxxx »

PenguinPupLin wrote: Wish you the best of health and wellbeing always! You're one of the important pillars of Puppy Linux. Puppy Rules,Long Live Puppy!
Thanks for the best wishes, I'll upload a few more apps :)
ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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#4715 Post by ttuuxxx »

Here's a app called Mediainfo, basically it can tell you what spec's eg. codeC used, the sample rates etc :)
It also works with music files like mp3's, very nice app,

http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/2.14X/S ... 2-i386.pet

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