I just wanted to add a post script to this thread. It turns out darry1966 was indeed right - versions of Flash 11 and above did not work with this ancient machine. Asking it to play Flash videos with versions of 11 would result in immediate crashes of the browser. Installing 10 point-something (10.8...

OK, didn't think I'd get time to fool with this till at least tomorrow, but had some time today and here's what I did... I really wanted TahrPup to work all all along and got thinking that maybe the reason that Firefox wouldn't install from Quick Pet was because Pale Moon and the old Dell weren't ge...

Thanks to all who replied. Yeah, I fired up my live CD of TahrPup after my post and had the same problem. But I was using Firefox 13 before I updated and I don't know how old the version of GetFlash was on there. In case you're wondering, when I tried to load Firefox from the Quick Pets menu, it fai...

Running Lupu 5.2.8 on an old Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop. I've tried almost every official Puppy linux distro, many in several different version releases, and NOTHING runs better than Lupu 5.2.8 on this old geezer. I love TahrPup and it's ability to update and have it installed on several other comput...

UPDATE - I think I actually judged Frisbee a little too harshly at first. After playing with it for a while, I discovered it connects automatically, first time - every time, but it does so considerably more slowly than the connection wizard in Puppy. All that needs to be done is to wait until the po...

Success!!...more or less... OK - here's where I am: Tempestuous - I tried to change the encryption protocol but was unable to do it. When I got to the network wizard page you posted no matter what I tried, it would simply recycle to the same page with my correct network name, my ESSID (the same), en...

No time to look into any of this tonight - it's my wedding anniversary. I'll give you a shout back tomorrow and let you know what I found.

Following is a copy of the failure log: Interface: ra0 Driver: usb Bus: x MacAddress: C8:3A:35:C2:86:50 Description: x STEP1a: ifconfig ra0 up STEP1b: iwlist ra0 scan ra0 Scan completed : Cell 01 - Address: 00:22:2D:BB:F1:CF Protocol:802.11b/g/n ESSID:"Javelin69" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.4...

Almost there! Thanks to rcrsn51 who provided the link, and tempestuous who originally posted the driver, I downloaded and installed the rt5370sta driver. When I opened the internet connection tool I now had a choice of "etho" and "ra0" (only had "etho" before). I clicke...

tempestuous - Sorry I missed your question in your first post. The command "lsusb" reveals the following: Device 001: ID 1d6b:001 Device 002: ID 04f3:0230 Device 003: ID 148f:5370 I can only assume the "148f:5370" ID is the one for the dongle as the 5370 number relates to one of ...

Thanks for the try, tempestuous. I successfully downloaded and installed the driver. It showed up in the network configuration tool, but when I loaded it no networks were detected. I did find a Panda Ultra mini wifi adapter on ebay for $12.99 (US) that claims it works with Puppy 5.3.3. Would that be...

I bought a Tenda model W311 MI mini wireless USB adapter the other day. It's plug-n-play with Ubuntu, but I plugged it into my old Dell laptop running Lucid 5.28 and it said no networks were detected. Running the command "iwconfig" showed that the device wasn't even recognized. Cruising th...

Thanks I'll study the links you provided as time permits and will take under advisement for next time. BTW, all my Puppy installs are Full - don't know what difference that might make now.

I apologize for neglecting this post for about a week, but life happened and pulled me away for a few days. Then I wanted to try my best to solve this as I both want, and am expected to, make a reasonable effort before I ask for more help. And I wanted to have something concrete to report before I c...

All I can tell you is that I have run both on an old Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop (750Ghz. Pentium III processor, 20 GB hard drive, 512 MB RAM). Both run extremely well with ONE glaring difference: Youtube videos on Precise (and just about everything else) run like a slide-show on this computer. On Luc...

Here’s an admittedly much lower tech solution for non-code writing dullards like me. There are a number of on-line repositories for Pet Packages available by simply Googling “Pet Packages for ___ (insert your Puppy here)

TRYING to run a dual boot of Lucid 5.28 and Ubuntu 12.04 on a Compaq Presario dual core laptop, 250 GB hard drive, 2GB RAM. I actually had this dual boot set-up before with Ubuntu installed on SDA 1 and Lucid on SDA 3. For various reasons, about a week ago I decided to do a clean install of both. Fo...

I’m going to mark this as “Solved

Starhawk – I’m coming to the party a little late on this one and without much technical expertise, but I can give you the benefit of my experience. On my old Dell Inspiron 8000 (750Mhz, 512 MB RAM), I’ve tested dozens and dozens of different Linux distros, and dozens of versions of Puppy. I’m not do...

Atle –

You crack me up! But be careful or the “New World Order