Insidious Puppy 001

[artifus]

I am having trouble with the Flash install. I want to listen to JazzRadio.com but it requires the Flash player.

think it's your browser that requires flash - check add ons/plug ins in your browser and install from there.

[cprivers]

Thanks. I looked at that, but couldn't figure out how to install anything from the plugin screen. I'll look again.

[Iguleder]

Get the .tar.gz here, unpack and put libflashplayer.so in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

[Iguleder]

The 2.6.35.9 I made showed a kernel panic, it was defective.

Now I'm trying to build a new Insidious with a new 2.6.35.9 I'm compiling (a slimmer kernel, took hours to configure it). If it looks good I'll upload it, that will be 002.

I'm not sure about the future of Insidious, since I go to the army in 6 days.

[eeny45]

Just purchased a new Samsung NC10+ netbook with a Broadcom 802.11n wireless adapter which neither Puppy 5.1.1 nor Insidious 001 seem to recognise. I've got Win 7 starter loaded and tried using ndiswrapper and the win7 driver but got "not a valid driver" or something similar. No problems connecting via ethernet. Ubuntu 10.10 for netbooks connects fine to the wireless adapter -- any thoughts and please don't get too techy on me?

[Iguleder]

The second attempt with 2.6.35.9 failed too

I took a look at Barry's 2.6.35.7 and compared the configurations, I missed some deprecated interfaces Puppy needs. At the moment I'm compiling a new one with those included, let's hope it works

eeny45, you should try a Puppy with a more recent kernel - try Fluppy. My Eee (same generation as your Samsung) plays nicely with 2.6.35.x.

Anyway, if no Puppy works - I read 2.6.37 should come with more Broadcom drivers. Linus Trovalds intends to release it for Christmas ... and if no Puppy developer compiles it, the next wave of distro releases (in March, April, ...) should use 2.6.38.x.

EDIT: ummm. The NC10 is a 2009 model (I was wrong) and the specifications in the Samsung site say it has an Atheros wireless card

[edoc]

Fluppy 008 is handling my Samsung NB30 just fine.

A quick Search via http://startpage.com should turn up the list of specs for the two.

[gjuhasz]

...any thoughts and please don't get too techy on me?

The broadcom_sta-5.6.48.36-i486.pet can be found at

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 596#421596

Give it a chance.

Also, there is a special Puppy431 for broadcom 4312 (and other?) wifi cards at

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 5e3de43b2d

This works nicely on my HP notebook.

[nooby]

eeny45 apart from the good advices you have got above mine here is a "crazy" unrealistic last resort answer.

If all else fails and you to want to get internet access. Then try to find the cheapest "wifi dongle" that works with the wifi drivers that are listed in the set up. They show a big list and write the names there on the wifi gear.

I had a computer that only puppeee or Fluppeee worked on for wifi and I tested an old cheap Wifi dongle that was USB attached and that one worked for other puppies.

Maybe you know sombody that can lend you one to test and then you know that that brand and make version do work and can hunt for it on Ebay? Or talk to the Computer Shop to buy on open return if not work basis such a wifi module.

As a last way to find a work around. Yeah crazy I know

[eeny45]

Hi Iguleder - thanks for the info. The netbook is a new NC10 Plus which does have a Broadcom adapter. I will try the other fixes/pets mentioned first and then try Fluppy. Many thanks all for your help and suggestions.

[jplt]

Hello Iguleder ,

do you think that Insidious Puppy would work good with my giada slim-n10 with atom n330 and nvidia ion ?

Thanks for your work.

[Béèm]

I am having trouble with the Flash install. I want to listen to JazzRadio.com but it requires the Flash player. I followed a link and installed the .DEB for Ubuntu 8.04. It went through all the motions, and it shows up in the package manager, but I still get requested to install it when I go to the JazzRadio page.

Tried to install a different version from PPM, but got the "Oh Dear" messages.

(Frugal Install)

Chuck

Flashplayer

[eeny45]

Hi gjuhasz - the Broadcom_sta-5.6.48.36-i486.pet worked for puppy 5.1.1. Many thanks - haven't tried it with Insidious yet but see no reason why it shouldn't work.

[mistfire]

Does Insidous puppy have hal and dbus installed?

[dejan555]

It has dbus not sure about hal

[Karl Godt]

The second attempt with 2.6.35.9 failed too

Compiling a kernel isn't that easy !

I tried out of couriousity make allyesconfig and allmodconfig : 900 -1100 MB of drivers.
On the 1 GHz machine it took more than a half day !

Also to remember to get the aufs directory and the entries into the special makefiles ..!

Kernel 2.6.36 has got aufs already in the fs directory but it seems one has to go to the archive to find it at the moment.

I am not able to use the kernel because two of my HD exited ( I suspect too low temperatures)
One HD died while running make clean inside the linux-2.6.xx.xx directory. I was able to boot into another partition of that HD and fsck messed a little. While examinig lost+found the HD stopped again. Sometimes the Bios recocnizes the HD and sometimes not.

Grub sees the slave as (hd0) but the kernel as sdb while the master is (hd1) at grub and the kernel says sda ( I thing it is because of the nearest joint )

I tried to boot into ram and was able to look inside and running grubinstall but while editing the menu.list at geany after one or two saves the disk had been 'ro'

This made me investigating grubinstall and I found some bugs that affect the install to fd, especially to fd1 . Also floppy-format.sh had to be adjusted. Its because my Bios sees the only fd at a single-end joint as fd1. I am investigating at the moment if it is possible to install grub to a just fdformat formatted floppydisk ( which seems not to work atm ) or if I have to run mkdosfs on the floppy, too , to make it bootable.

[Valinote]

Hi, guys. I'm trying to do a full install of Insidious Puppy to a Compaq Presario V4000 laptop with an Intel Pentium M @ 1.7GHz and 500MB of RAM. I used GParted to format and partition the 100GB Toshiba ATA hard drive. I created 2 partitions: 99GB ext3 partition with the boot flag set; and a 1GB linux-swap file. I checked via GParted to make sure both partitions are unmounted. But when I run Puppy Universal Installer, I get an error message that says the following:

A partition sanity check before continuing:
cannot be unmounted!
currently mounted read-write.
does not have inpusave.3fs file in it.

It tells me that bottom line I need to unmount the partition before continuing, but I don't see any indication that it *is* mounted! Can someone please help me? Thanks in advance for any kind advice.

NOTE: I forgot to mention that standard Puppy Lucid 5.2 installs fine without any issues. In that case PUI detects and correctly reports the main partition as /dev/sda1.

-Steve D

[Roy]

cannot be unmounted!

I've seen this a couple of times in the recent past and -- although I do not know the correct fix -- I have learned to "work around" this problem.

Open up Gparted and look at that partition... see the 'padlock' icon on the same line as that mounted drive? Select that drive's line entry and right click; this should bring a drop-down menu with 'unmount' as a selection. Left click on 'unmount' and you should see the padlock icon go away. Your partition is now unmounted.

-Roy

[Shep]

Now I'm trying to build a new Insidious with a new 2.6.35.9 I'm compiling (a slimmer kernel, took hours to configure it). If it looks good I'll upload it, that will be 002.

It looks like Iguleder did not manage this ambitious feat, before leaving for military service.

I'm not sure about the future of Insidious, since I go to the army in 6 days.

I fear that the implication of Iguleder's departure is that this Dpup line is destined to proceed no further. Is there any cause for optimism, or is this also how it appears to those who have assisted Iguleder in furthering its development from where gposil left off?

We wish you well, Iguleder. Call back whenever you get the chance.

[Valinote]

Left click on 'unmount' and you should see the padlock icon go away.

Roy, thanks for the comeback. I was careful not to save the session from the live CD, so there is no padlock on the kernel partition, and therefore nothing to unmount. I removed the padlock from the swap partition by selecting the "swapoff" command in gparted to move it to ram. So no padlocks in gparted that would indicate that either of the partitions are mounted. I'm stumped!

-Steve D