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wuwei · Joined: 15 Sep 2007 Posts: 739 Location: de

Hello Barry,

I did try, unfortunately unsuccessfully.

Here is what I did:

Loaded a fresh spup with pfix=ram from a subdirectory on my Puppy partition. Nouveau driver again worked fine with GeForce 6200 LE.

Then I tried the 4 steps from your post here
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01701

# modprobe pppoe in terminal did not respond.

According to this
http://www.lampdocs.com/home-personal/pppoe-connection/

one would now "need to create a kernel module". This is a bit over my head, at least without spending a lot of time. Guess the entire procedure was now impossible to continue. Still I tried #2 and #3 on your list.

When I got to #4

edoc · Posted: Wed 07 Jul 2010, 14:01 Post subject:

I had high hopes that a fresh install of SPUP 030 would finally fix the CUPS problem.

CUPS in SPUP 030 cannot handle an Add Printer request.

It cannot find localhost:631 - it generates a "404 Not Found"

Very weird ... Any suggestions, please?

EDIT

I just read some more and have discovered that the CUPS problem may be a carry-forward unresolved problem from SPUP 020.

I even tried upgrading via Puppy Package Manager to CUPS 1.4.3 -- but no joy. Sad

EDIT2

I went back to Wary 030, remembering that I had fixed the shortage of HDD space, and tried CUPS and it worked!

I noticed that CUPS popped up a Username/Password window - it did not do that in SPUP 030 - is it possible that the CUPS failure in SPUP 030 (and 020 before that) is due to a problem with the login to localhost:631?

EDIT3

Here are three proposed solutions to a CUPS localhost:631 failure which may lead to a solution under SPUP:

BarryK · Posted: Thu 08 Jul 2010, 02:37 Post subject: Subject description: pppoe in spup

edoc · Posted: Thu 08 Jul 2010, 12:02 Post subject:

I am having an interesting time talking to myself about the CUPS problem in SPUP 030 but it is getting boring.

Has CUPS been abandoned in SPUP?

I know that Barry has elsewhere expressed frustration at CUPS being a chronic nuisance - and I agree for sure!

It would be helpful to flag the lack of CUPS before one downloads, installs, and wastes time fighting to get it working in SPUP if it is both a lost-cause and a non-goal for the development of SPUP.

If CUPS is being abandoned is there a pending-alternative to CUPS planned for SPUP?

edoc

Great news!

When he returns to the keyboard I presume there will be a .PET or some other means to upgrade our SPUP 030 installs.

Thanks Barry!

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01707

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

Hmmmm......

libiw.so.29 seems to be missing from spup. It must have gotten lost in the woof translation... it's weird because my wireless is working ok, and the header file is in the devx.. libiw.a.

I installed one from Quirky 1.2 but that of course is not satisfactory.

I went in to /initrd/pup_ro2/usr/lib and did "ls|grep lib" which basically gives me a list of all libs in /usr/lib as they are in the original iso. I did this after a search.

Here's an extract of the out put:

BarryK · Posted: Thu 08 Jul 2010, 22:06 Post subject:

I have been fixing bugs in Spup 0.3, quite significant ones.

So, for any newcomers reading this, don't download Spup 0.3, as I will upload 0.4 in a couple of days.

aarf · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 3620 Location: around the bend

edoc · Posted: Fri 09 Jul 2010, 00:34 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Fri 09 Jul 2010, 22:19 Post subject:

Spup 0.4 has arrived:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01715

You might also find this post on Samba printing to be useful:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=433211#433211

edoc · Posted: Fri 09 Jul 2010, 22:50 Post subject:

Barry,

You are amazing!

Downloaded ... may be too late in the day here to load it all up but will make a point of it asap and report back.

Thanks!

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1497 Location: Ontario Canada

I did a frugal install of 040 on this pc which has an nvidia card but the only way I could get x to start on first boot was to choose the neomagic driver.I had downloaded your new nvidia pet earlier and saved it to a flash drive but no luck installing it on this pc, x won't start when I select restart x server after installing the pet.
VGA compatible controller nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200]
VGA compatible controller nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9300 GE]

I have another pc with an nvidia 8600gt card in it and the nouveau driver causes the screen to have strange lines here and there on the screen.Rebooting and selecting the vesa driver on this computer allowed me to install your nvidia pet and x would start after doing restart x server but no accelerated graphics although the screen is okay otherwise.
I do get accelerated graphics after installing the nvidia pet in quickpet in luci-209 on the pc with the 8600gt but have to start with vesa before installing the nvidia pet on luci-209 as well.

The pwallpaper in /usr/sbin doesn't change the wallpaper, it will come up and you can select different background images but it won't actually change the wallpaper.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Just did a quick fresh frugal install on the old P3 test box.No problems yet... Smile

upnorth · Posted: Fri 09 Jul 2010, 23:42 Post subject:

on the 020 version, I installed viewnior and that allowed nathan wallpaper setter
to work.

For now, in 040, I just edit /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin at the top, eg :

<backdrop style="Stretched">/root/towercam.jpg</backdrop>

Otherwise, working great!

BarryK · Posted: Sat 10 Jul 2010, 00:04 Post subject:

Hmmm, yeah, something is amiss with Pwallpaper. I'm running on an old 500MHz PC right now, I started "pwallpaper" in a terminal, chose an image, clicked "Apply" button and got a segmentation fault.

Anyway, I am pleased to report that modem dialup is now working. This old PC has a Pctel analog modem, and it works, using it right now.

I'm paying for a dialup account with Netbay Internet, but hardly ever use it. Still want to keep the account though, for testing purposes.