Fatdog64-700 beta2 [Closed]

[prehistoric]

Now back to seeing the blinking penguin in the upper right corner of this page using Firefox 35.01 and Flash Player 11.2.202.442-X86_64-1.

We might be able to reduce the size of the code by simply displaying the message about blocking an outdated plug-in all the time. The time new plug-ins remain up-to-date has become negligible.

[neerajkolte]

Hi,
My friend gave me his new WiFi usb adapter to test.
lsusb says it's an Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter.
It connects fine to my router.

But after each 4-5 min it drops connection.
Wpa_Gui shows it still as connected and IP address is shown too.
But webpages throw "This web page is not available". When I click 'Connect' again, web is working, It still shows the same IP.

Am I missing something.

Thanks.

- Neeraj.

[gcmartin]

Hello @NeerajKolte
Check your /etc/resolv.conf. Is it accurate? seen some past evidence that this can get screwed up randomly on new router connections. Here's an example to help:

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# Generated by dhcpcd from eth0
# /etc/resolv.conf.head can replace this line
nameserver 192.168.1.1
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 0.0.0.0
# /etc/resolv.conf.tail can replace this line
#
# above shows router as DNS at 192...
# above shows DNS at 8...
# above shows DNS at 0...
# above works for routers located at 192...

Here to help

[neerajkolte]

My /etc/resolv.conf reads

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# Generated by dhcpcd from wlan0
# /etc/resolv.conf.head can replace this line
nameserver 4.2.2.2
nameserver 8.8.8.8
# /etc/resolv.conf.tail can replace this line

Shall I add "nameserver 192.168.1.1" to it?
Thanks.

- Neeraj.

[DrDeaf]

I boot to RAM with no HD installed or connected to my notebook. All files are saved to an external hard drive. . Would it be possible to include native support for more file systems on these external drives in FD700? I believe that the kernel supports these but Fatdog has not included support in the past.

ExFAT, BTRFS and XFS baked-in would be nice. Larger SD cards in my camera require exFAT and I would rather not go find a Windows machine to access a card. Since that is proprietary, I would happily install exFAT after boot but I have not been able to find anything that works with FD630.
Thanks

[8Geee]

exFAT is propietary and patented by Microsoft. Many hoops to jump through.
IIRC FUSE can help with this.

[gcmartin]

Hello @NeerajKolte

My /etc/resolv.conf reads ... Shall I add "nameserver 192.168.1.1" to it?

NO...ONLY IFF your LAN's router is the same as that LAN IP address. The first nameserver IP in my reference shown is your LAN router where that is the pathway for you PCs to the internet. So only use that 192... address if it is:

• the primary path to the internet
• its IP address is what is shown (I merely gave a reference). You actual router "might" have a different address on your LAN. Your router's IP address would be the one to test and use.

Another reference assuming YOUR router IP is be at 10.0.0.1

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# /etc/resolv.conf reference with router cache as 1st DNS in search order
nameserver 10.0.0.1
# if above address is NOT your router IP, change it to your router's IP
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 4.4.4.4
# end of /etc/resolv.conf changes

Hope the reference is helpful to correcting your browser issue of resolving URL addresses.

[neerajkolte]

When I access my router on 192.168.1.1 and login, I see following info

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WAN IP	    103.243.***.**
Subnet Mask	    255.255.255.255
Gateway	    10.0.0.1
Primary DNS	    8.8.8.8
Secondary DNS	    4.2.2.2
Connection type	    PPPoE

Any way what ever IP I put in that file doesn't make my connection stick.
Also it gets erased to previous values when I reconnect.
Also the content is the same when I connect through wire (eth0) but connection is persistent.
I also found while downloading (when connected with wlan0) in background the net kept alive for almost 15min, but as soon as downloading was finished it got off and I had to reconnect every 4 min afterwords.
Is there any setting for wifi inactivity time-out?

Thanks.

- Neeraj.

[Ted Dog]

small thumb drive have poor connections and some also have poor supported linux drivers. Found out in multiple places and by persons its critical to get one that is proven to work well or those are the problems. Move closer to router..
Currently getting my Raspberry Pi stuff together, got microflash card and picked out the wifi thumbdrive from Amazon. waiting for it to hit US suppliers.

[Ted Dog]

@drdeaf my no install boot metbod works on a large sdcard 32G fat-of-sometype and doesn't require any reformating of factory usb or sdcards.

[jamesbond]

@neeraj: possibly your "power-saving mode" kicks in on your dongle. To disable it, run "iwconfig wlan0 power off" in terminal.

@drdeaf: exfat, xfs, btrfs read/write support is built-in (though not tested). If you want to make new xfs/btrfs partitions then you'll need to download the tool from the repo.

@ted dog: we'll see if we can release "rc" before you leave town, but no promises. Also, no raspberries2 in the works - I still owe someone who donated me nexus 7 to get FatdogArm running on that tablet.

@all: note that 64-bit firefox 35.0.1 (Mozilla build and Fatdog build) all suffer from this very annoying issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1122907 may be related with this old bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417689 (I am experiencing this bug myself )

[purple379]

Sorry I have not taken a much time to research this. I see some sites talking about Moonlight, and Pipelight.

I felt someone might have a package that does this already put together.

All I know for sure so far is that Netflix does not work automatically with FatDog.

I was asked to help a local Catholic Priest with his computer a laptop that uses Vista, which is, older. My first thought was to tell him to buy some new hardware. He says that he is waiting for the Diocese to give him approval/money, as he has for over a year.

I feel Fat Dog would do most everything for him, as he is not technically minded. However, the Catholic Church sends out a lot of video and podcasts, which I am sure at some point will include Silver Light. Then I would need to get his printer working, as he will want to use his printer.

[Ted Dog]

Purple someone released a sfs of Chrome for FD647b2 and it runs netflix. Unsure where I got it but that should jog someone elses memory.
I use it on my Mac and its better than netflix on OSX.

[Ted Dog]

Something odd at our link for 700 on the host. Do a save as and anti geany shell sripts is loaded into save directory listing. seems to setup jsapi and then delete itself.
Secondly unrelated checked with phone provider on new changes in plan. looks like we finally got what the rest of world has free teather/hotspot on dataplan. Which will greatly help my postings and downloading plus data rollover for a month.

[olinm]

Linux 3.19 released

New in this release is improved support for Intel and AMD graphics, plus support for LZ4 compression in the SquasFS which should make for better Linux performance on Live CDs.

Owners of Lenovo, Dell, Acer and Toshiba will now find Linux plays better with some of their unqiue hardware features, especially keyboard backlights.

The KVM Hypervisor has dropped support for the IA64 chip, a milestone in that architecture's demise

[kirk]

All I know for sure so far is that Netflix does not work automatically with FatDog.

Like Ted said you'll want to install Google-Chrome, it's in the Gslapt package manager. Install Google-Chrome and then install the netflix app. The next release will have google-chrome in the menu, if it's not installed you'll be prompted to download and install the latest google-chrome. Same with firefox.

Linux 3.19 released

New in this release is improved support for Intel and AMD graphics, plus support for LZ4 compression in the SquasFS which should make for better Linux performance on Live CDs.

We'll be going with 3.18.x unless we hit some big delay or there's something we can't live without in 3.19. I did enable lzo for squashfs and James enabled lzo in squashfs tools. But I think that option will benefit few.

[neerajkolte]

@Jamesbond When I try to switch off "power saving mode" I get

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# iwconfig wlan0 power off
Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
# 
# iwconfig 
eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"Neeraj Kolte"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:1E:A6:3B:C0:30   
          Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=60/70  Signal level=-50 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:38   Missed beacon:0

lo        no wireless extensions.

#

Any suggestions?

[neerajkolte]

I tested it in win7 works ok even after 1hr did not disconnect.

But when tried in tahrpup, got same result as in Fatdog.

Thanks.

- Neeraj.

[rcrsn51]

@neerajkolte: Try stay-connected.

Is this device using the rtl8192cu driver? Check with lsmod.

[neerajkolte]

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# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ctr                     3503  1 
ccm                     7214  1 
snd_pcm_oss            36990  0 
snd_mixer_oss          13771  1 snd_pcm_oss
rfcomm                 31366  0 
bnep                   10050  2 
bluetooth             270957  10 bnep,rfcomm
ipv6                  290810  46 
rtl8192cu              61551  0 
rtl_usb                 9808  1 rtl8192cu
rtlwifi                47239  2 rtl_usb,rtl8192cu
rtl8192c_common        36518  1 rtl8192cu
mac80211              286889  3 rtl_usb,rtlwifi,rtl8192cu
cfg80211              206077  2 mac80211,rtlwifi
rfkill                  9793  5 cfg80211,bluetooth
coretemp                5804  0 
hwmon                   2802  1 coretemp
intel_rapl              8632  0 
x86_pkg_temp_thermal     4583  0 
intel_powerclamp        8514  0 
kvm_intel             127529  0 
kvm                   276378  1 kvm_intel
crct10dif_pclmul        4386  0 
crc32_pclmul            2659  0 
crc32c_intel           12737  0 
snd_hda_codec_realtek    53509  1 
snd_hda_codec_generic    49638  1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
ghash_clmulni_intel     3938  0 
cryptd                  7441  1 ghash_clmulni_intel
pcspkr                  1859  0 
psmouse                84630  0 
i2c_i801                9342  0 
i915                  801664  2 
snd_hda_intel          19971  1 
r8169                  56543  0 
lpc_ich                13584  0 
snd_hda_controller     17147  1 snd_hda_intel
mii                     3827  1 r8169
snd_hda_codec          81614  4 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_pcm                77531  4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
i2c_algo_bit            5095  1 i915
snd_timer              17655  1 snd_pcm
drm_kms_helper         67294  1 i915
snd                    55580  10 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_pcm_oss,snd_timer,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore               5034  2 snd,snd_hda_codec
drm                   232420  4 i915,drm_kms_helper
fan                     2425  0 
battery                12634  0 
parport_pc             23117  0 
parport                28949  1 parport_pc
#

I will try that script. Theoretically it should work.
But is this a bug in the driver?

Edit: I placed that script in my startup folder. I will report back an hour later.

Edit: Seems to be working fine, Thanks @rcrsn51.

Thanks.

- Neeraj.