Wary Puppy 5.0-final feedback

[ravensrest]

Shep,
I simply mounted the Wary 5.0 iso and copied the initrd.gz, vmlinuz and wary_500.sfs to my wary104 directory (renamed the corresponding old files so they wouldn't run), and ran it. It automatically updated beautifully from my old warysave.3fs file.
BS

[00wau]

Hello,

this Puppylinux Version cannot find my Soundcard (ES1978 or ES1968 / Maestro).

With Lupu 5.1.7 the same, but when I run alsaconf in a console from tty2 it finds it.

Please help me with what to do, as I cannot run alsaconf in a shell anymore.

Thank you!

[Frank Cox]

I have the same wireless card and don't have problems; not likely
to be a kernel issue.

Try a 098 or earlier wary; the extended pcmcia and usb module
loading may have something to do with it; a wild guess.

Sometimes it may switch interfaces if more than one install is on
the drive. A reboot and second attempt may work.

I have no problems in 431 and I have rebooted and tried many times.
I can connect with no security in Wary. What can I do to fix the problem if it is the pcmia loading or usb module?

This is a frugal install so I will try moving the install to a separate partition .

Thanks

[Béèm]

Frank Cox, did you follow the advise of rcrsn51 and enter the pass-frase preceded by s:?
What network device do you get for the pcmcia card and which for the USB device?

[Frank Cox]

Frank Cox, did you follow the advise of rcrsn51 and enter the pass-frase preceded by s:?
What network device do you get for the pcmcia card and which for the USB device?

]

Yes I tried putting an s before the passphrase. Not sure what you mean by the network devices.
The only thing I find to do with the wireless is :

Description: Intel Corporation Pro/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Vendor: 8086 Device: 4220 Kernel Module: ipw2200

[rjbrewer]

Frank Cox, did you follow the advise of rcrsn51 and enter the pass-frase preceded by s:?
What network device do you get for the pcmcia card and which for the USB device?

]

Yes I tried putting an s before the passphrase. Not sure what you mean by the network devices.
The only thing I find to do with the wireless is :

Description: Intel Corporation Pro/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Vendor: 8086 Device: 4220 Kernel Module: ipw2200

Beem apparently mistook my usb-pcmcia comment as a reference
to your wifi device.

[Béèm]

Frank Cox, did you follow the advise of rcrsn51 and enter the pass-frase preceded by s:?
What network device do you get for the pcmcia card and which for the USB device?

]

Yes I tried putting an s before the passphrase. Not sure what you mean by the network devices.
The only thing I find to do with the wireless is :

Description: Intel Corporation Pro/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Vendor: 8086 Device: 4220 Kernel Module: ipw2200

It is s:, not s
You told what the hardware device was.
What are the network devices, ethX, wlanX or what ever?

[Frank Cox]

Frank Cox, did you follow the advise of rcrsn51 and enter the pass-frase preceded by s:?
What network device do you get for the pcmcia card and which for the USB device?

]

Yes I tried putting an s before the passphrase. Not sure what you mean by the network devices.
The only thing I find to do with the wireless is :

Description: Intel Corporation Pro/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
Vendor: 8086 Device: 4220 Kernel Module: ipw2200

It is s:, not s
You told what the hardware device was.
What are the network devices, ethX, wlanX or what ever?

It was yesterday , i followed the directions, if they said s: I am sure that is what I did but I will try again on my next opportunity.

The wireless shows up as eth1

[Béèm]

It was yesterday , i followed the directions, if they said s: I am sure that is what I did but I will try again on my next opportunity.

The wireless shows up as eth1

Please be precise then when you report having done an advise.
Is it eth1 for both your hardware devices?

[Billtoo]

I set up woof in wary 5.0 and made a version of wary 5.0 with the
2.6.34.1 kernel.

# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 500

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: G84 Board - p402h00 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nv

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
# glxgears
447 frames in 5.1 seconds = 87.357 FPS
440 frames in 5.0 seconds = 87.202 FPS
440 frames in 5.0 seconds = 87.278 FPS
440 frames in 5.0 seconds = 87.293 FPS
#
# uname -r
2.6.34.1
#

I installed devx,kernel source sfs, and the newest nvidia driver for my
graphics card:

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
46190 frames in 5.0 seconds = 9237.993 FPS
51977 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10395.371 FPS
51971 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10394.047 FPS
51992 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10398.235 FPS
51965 frames in 5.0 seconds = 10392.873 FPS
#
# report-video
VIDEO REPORT: Wary Puppy, version 500

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: G84 Board - p402h00 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nvidia

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth 24 Depth: "Display"

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#
I added some pets that I made in Wary 5.0 too.
It's working pretty well so far

Edit: This newer kernel is working well on my newer hp desktop too, retrovol is working now, with the older kernel I had sound but retrovol didn't work.

[Frank Cox]

It was yesterday , i followed the directions, if they said s: I am sure that is what I did but I will try again on my next opportunity.

The wireless shows up as eth1

Please be precise then when you report having done an advise.
Is it eth1 for both your hardware devices?

I thought it was impossible to have an eth1 unless an eth0 existed but I am not an expert on this subject.

There is an eth1 that is the wireless and an eth0 that is the Ethernet connection to the same Linksys router that provides the wireless signal. The incoming signal is cable. I

[rjbrewer]

It was yesterday , i followed the directions, if they said s: I am sure that is what I did but I will try again on my next opportunity.

The wireless shows up as eth1

Please be precise then when you report having done an advise.
Is it eth1 for both your hardware devices?

I thought it was impossible to have an eth1 unless an eth0 existed but I am not an expert on this subject.

There is an eth1 that is the wireless and an eth0 that is the Ethernet connection to the same Linksys router that provides the wireless signal. The incoming signal is cable. I

The interface to the ipw2200 minicard can be either eth0 or eth1; it
will say wireless in either case.
An external card (pcmcia or usb) would usually say wlan.

Beem still doesn't understand that you have 2 laptops that both
use the same type internal wireless card.

[technosaurus]

even though MMX was introduced with the 486. Which was annoying, maybe I could have hacked the 'configure' script.

Adobe Flash -- perhaps the older version 9 player would work?

Re ffmpeg on gecko: mmx was introduced after 486 - the vortexDx is a 586 without mmx or 3dnow (the newer vortexMx does have mmx though) - so it may benefit from -march=i586 -mtune=i586

Re flash9: I wrote a little sed script for flash 9 so that web sites will work that think that they need flash-10.x (but really don't)

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh
FLASHLOC=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
NEWVER="10.1 r"
VER=`strings $FLASHLOC | grep -e "^Shockwave Flash [.\d+]*" | sed -e "s/Shockwave Flash //g"` 
while [ "${#NEWVER}" -lt "${#VER}" ]
do
NEWVER=${NEWVER}9
done
sed -i "s/$VER/$NEWVER/g" $FLASHLOC

[pskin]

technosaurus,
Thanks for the tips on compilation. I am trying to compile mplayer
now and such advice is welcome.

The flash plugin (a version 10.1r102) which I put in place of the
shipped one seems to work fine (at least it still has not crashed on me).

-pskin

[Frank Cox]

The interface to the ipw2200 minicard can be either eth0 or eth1; it
will say wireless in either case.
An external card (pcmcia or usb) would usually say wlan.

Beem still doesn't understand that you have 2 laptops that both
use the same type internal wireless card.

Lol!

That is what I thought .
I was really starting to wonder what I was being asked. It made no sense to me as I have no USB or PCMIA cards .

In case there is still confusion I have a Gateway M275 Tablet PC with an internal wireless minicard , an intel 200bg, that I have not been able to get to work with Wary 500 except by disabling security which is of course unacceptable. It works fine with the standard vanilla puppy 431 .

The Fujitsu t4010 TabletPC running the same card belongs to my cousin. It would not work with the standard vanilla 431 that worked on my Gateway with wep security enabled.
When it was suggested to use the special Puppy 431 with the retro kernel it worked fine on the Fujitsu .

[Béèm]

I have no problems in 431 and I have rebooted and tried many times.
I can connect with no security in Wary. What can I do to fix the problem if it is the pcmia loading or usb module?

I understand from this that he has two wireless devices, a pcmcia one and an usb one which I assume is in the same PC.

[rjbrewer]

I have no problems in 431 and I have rebooted and tried many times.
I can connect with no security in Wary. What can I do to fix the problem if it is the pcmia loading or usb module?

I understand from this that he has two wireless devices, a pcmcia one and an usb one which I assume is in the same PC.

Okay; Franks question is in response to previous statements I made
about the Wary versions after 098 having an extended module
loading delay that causes problems with the functioning of various
devices.

[neurino]

I'ts the second software I try to compile today that gives me this error:

Code: Select all

/usr/libexec/gcc/i486-t2-linux-gnu/4.3.4/cc1: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libmpfr.so.1: undefined symbol: __gmp_get_memory_functions

Softwares are rather different: a sound editor (SoX) and an image viewer (GPicView) so I started thinking there's somethin' wrong in my compiling environment.

(honestly I'm using Wary104 not Wary5 but I guess not that different...)

Thank you!

[technosaurus]

I'ts the second software I try to compile today that gives me this error:

Code: Select all

/usr/libexec/gcc/i486-t2-linux-gnu/4.3.4/cc1: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libmpfr.so.1: undefined symbol: __gmp_get_memory_functions

answer is here: http://www.mpfr.org/faq.html#undef_ref1
You can follow the lfs method and compile the mpfr, gmp, mpc (and libelf) into gcc statically to prevent this kind of situation.

Note: lfs does not specify libelf, but the new (much better) lto optimizations require it

[obxjerry]

Just my 2 cents worth on wireless: it really is a combination. I have 3 old laptops, 2 PC wireless cards and a usb dongle.

The Winbook Si my wife uses hates everything. It prefers the usb dongle, even though that one has to ndiswrapper the Windows driver. Today I installed Wary 104 on it. By a lot, it is the best Puppy as far as connecting to wireless on that machine. It never boots up and connects. With Wary, right click on connect, left click on autoconnect and you're there (Thank you rjbrewer). That's 2 to 12 clicks better than 431. It did take several tries to get it to connect the first time, maybe a dozen, doing the same thing over and over. That's par for the course on that machine.

My Thinkpad 600E hates new Puppies as far as wireless. It won't run the newer kernels at all. A different Puppy means doing the same thing dozens of times before it finally connects. After the first time it's good and you can switch PC cards pretty easy. It hasn't made friends with the usb dongle yet.

The Thinkpad R51 doesn't like the usb dongle. It has the slot and antenna for an internal card so that may be coming. I have learned it's the combination that matters.

As far as Wary 104, the only complaint my wife has is the 24 hour clock in the bottom right corner.