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[goingnuts]

starhawk: thx

greengeek: I found that mp (minimal profit) text editor seems to work ok with copy paste between applications without crashing the source application - still a mystery why beaver and other gtk1.2 apps does that. mp has a different way of selecting text (right mouse button and mark outer points of that is to be selected) but normal shift-key and arrows/ctrl-c/ctrl-v works as well.

Attached tar.gz file - use "tar -xzf mp-3.3.18b.tar.gz" to unpack and copy the extracted files to /

[starhawk]

cs423x was carried over from 431 into 432 it looks like. At least, the source tarball isn't around in /lib/modules/all-firmware/ ... however...

http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Module-cs4236 should be of some significant use

...lifted SNS from Puplite5. The entire set of icons that should be there are not, but everything else ought to be. Obvious dependencies are iwconfig and ifconfig -- I've not included those because I'd be quite surprised if you didn't already have them.

Also not included is a symlink. /usr/sbin/sns should be linked to ../local/simple_network_setup/sns .

Everything else needed should be in there. I've done my usual trick of preserving heirarchy... files are as follows:
../SNS-puplite5/etc/simple_network_setup/
../SNS-puplite5/usr/local/simple_network_setup/help_security
../SNS-puplite5/usr/local/simple_network_setup/rc.network
../SNS-puplite5/usr/local/simple_network_setup/sns
../SNS-puplite5/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper
../SNS-puplite5/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper-buginfo
../SNS-puplite5/usr/sbin/wpa_cli
../SNS-puplite5/usr/sbin/wpa_passphrase
../SNS-puplite5/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant

I did not include ndiswrapperGUI.sh because it does not work. AFAIK one cannot copy or archive symlinks properly, so that's why I didn't copy the one mentioned above. All of that said, once you backport the scripts all to GTK1 and stick in iwconfig and ifconfig (if not pulling from Puppy 420, you might want to double-check the commands -- also I don't know their deps) it *should* work fine.

You get a proper tarball of this stuff, since Xarchiver (no Pupzip in Puplite5) doesn't want to gz a directory for some reason. I've made the tarball in Windows XP using 7zip and gzip together.

...and last, but not least...

THANK YOU for putting up with my inane never-ending questions I really do appreciate it, and I am remiss in not saying that sooner.

[Keef]

goingnuts / starhawk

Sorry to butt in, but it may help to have a newer version of the sns script, as it supports profiles. Barry's blog
Originally you had to re-enter everything after a reboot.
I've attached the two main files from /usr/local/simple_network_setup/

I did try stripping this down to CLI level once...
but failed miserably!

[starhawk]

Hey, I didn't know about that. Should be really useful, then.

Thanks, Keef!

[Keef]

...back again.

Hope this is not too off-topic, but may be of interest. For some time I have been messing with 4M Linux, an odd little distro with an almost amusingly bad website.
Anyway, the full distro has plenty of faults, but I got interested in the 'core' version. 4M boots with just a bzImage and an intrd.gz.
The initrd contains:

[starhawk]

Of note, one small bit of advanced knowledge I do have is that PET files are basically *.tar.gz (aka tarball) archives with an md5sum appended somehow (I don't recall how, but IIRC the whole thing is spelled out at puppylinux.org somewhere).

[goingnuts]

Posted a first try of SNS with gtkdialog1 here. Not so much work going to gtk1 but removing xmessage-stuff and enabling ash-only took time. Also had to compile a newer dhcpcd, a static ethtool+ifplugstatus. But seems to work. Used the Puplite version but plan to go for the version Keef pointed at.
Keef: You mentioned you needed Termcap - what exactly are you missing? Is it the termcap.info files?
And the 4M looks worth a closer look - thanks!
starhawk: I was wondering if the sound is a driver missing or the absent of ALSA that gives problems? I do not know if ALSA can be done static at all - but as you are already having some of the shared libs for Xorg you might try adding a std ALSA-system? Anyway I will try to look into ALSA and the cs423x-stuff in 431.

Attached a static build of blinky-0.8...has retro look but with a low resource demand.

Add: Attached static build of alsalib/alsautils but stripped for most bins not needed for running alsaconf. The alsaconf is a slitaz script that runs with ash (original needs bash). I am not able to test this throughly - guess its mostly relevant for configuring ISA soundcards. Maybe worth a try - starhawk?

[starhawk]

goingnuts: I look forward to trying all 3

I assume that for pUPnGO 2012 I do not need to install any GTK, just the SNS, ALSA, and Blinky *.pets?

[goingnuts]

[starhawk]

Re: GTK -- that's what I thought.

Re: testing -- I'll do that in a minute

[starhawk]

SNS = dead in the water.

Apparently there is no easy way to associate a driver with a physical device unless it is done automatically -- which pUPnGO2012 DOES NOT.

Plugged in a spare Netgear WG111v3 adapter, having installed the SNS pet and the extra-drivers SFS. Nothing showed up in SNS about the adapter, except for a Windows option (I will NOT use ndiswrapper). modprobe was used, and it loaded the correct WiFi module as listed on WikiDevi (very handy site, that). However, ifconfig and iwconfig would not recognize the device. /dev/wlan0 doesn't exist so that may be part of the issue.

Is there an RXVT command that says, "take this effing driver that's loaded and stuff it into a USB port"?

Also, how do I properly get Blinky working? In the /root/Startup directory it displays in the upper-left corner of the screen.

Haven't tried sound yet.

[goingnuts]

Do not know about the wifi-driver thing...If driver present and recognized (including firmware drivers) they are normally loaded during boot...If the extra driver are not present at boot but installed after boot they might not be picked up - but unsure how to get you further there. I think if the right drivers are loaded ifconfig/iwconfig will give you some response...
I have the SNS--retro working with pupngo2012 on an asus eeepc900 and on stationary pc with usb-zd1211 wireless-stick. Also the wired network adapters on both machines are recognized and connected.

For blinky add the below to /root/.jwmrc-tray

[technosaurus]

if anyone is looking to do a no-rox version, I wrote some C that checks file extension and gives you the MIME-type:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=80916
These are the ones that (by default - not necessarily in pet packages) are semicolon separated in .desktop files as
MimeType=application/vnd.ms-asf;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;...

You can just grep `mimetype $filename` /usr/share/applications/*.desktop to find which programs can run it.

[greengeek]

[technosaurus]

it could be ath0 on this older kernel too, may be a good time to try a later LTS kernel (2.6.32?)