Dell XT3 and Broadcom BCM43228-my solution Battle with wireless hardware Short story: I won, and I offer a possible quick and easy solution to all others fighting with proprietary cards like the BCM43228. I'm a long-time user of Linux, not a total noob, and I'm not afraid of CLI stuff. I switched co...

[quote="Mike Walsh"]You're welcome! Let me know if they work for you, please. They [b]should[/b]. I'm afraid they're SFS packages, rather than .pets, but I would hazard a guess that you know what you're doing with SFS packages by this time, yes? Mike. :wink:[/quote] Yup, know about sfs pac...

Thanks!
I'll check them out this evening during med time.
Ed

> You might consider it the right time to begin to learn more about Linux. :wink: Nah. I have late-stage COPD. Some say 6 months to go, others say maybe a year. I say it doesn't really matter. Been there, done that, etc. I have other things to do for now, at least until this thing makes it so I can'...

I appreciate your suggestions for installing GE, but they represent way too much time and trouble to achieve as little as I want from GE. The GE pets I mentioned are convenient, quick, easy, and give me what's necessary. No trouble with them so far. However, if someone cobbles up a GE pet specifical...

Hi, guys. Been using 5.7.1 for a couple of years and it's been a while since I had any issues with Puppy, BUT... I grabbed v605 and tried it. All good, but couldn't install Google Earth after half a dozen tries. Then I grabbed the 64-bit version. Same problems. Then I saw mention of PT606 in 32 and ...

Sounds good to me. I don't use Twitter or Facebook, but both would probably be good places to spread the word about Puppy.
Ed
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> What can each of us do to promote Puppy? Talk to banks about providing Puppy CDs to customers. They'd want to 'brand' the CDs and/or packaging, of course, but no matter. A live CD turns any computer into a safe, dedicated banking device. Here's an article on the matter: http://voices.washingtonpos...

> On my 700m laptop with a Precise full install, I added "acpi=force" (no quotes) to the kernel line in boot-grub-menu.lst to solve the power off or reboot problem. > After the first successful reboot or power off it was no longer necessary to have that addition to menu.lst. Tried putting ...

It's a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. Puppy 5.6.1 full install in its own partition with a swap partition. After I'd raved about Puppy for close to a year, she dug this lappie out to have me install Puppy on a dual boot with WinXP. So... of course the installation went fast and easy and everything worke...

*Late question: You have [url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70855]this version?

I dunno. Downloading now.
Might as well try it.
Ed

[quote="Semme"]If frugal, you should try: [b]puppy acpi=off[/b] or [b]puppy acpi=ht[/b]. If hd installed, as [url=http://puppylinux.org/wikka/BootParametersGeneral]boot options[/url] in your menu.lst.[/quote] Nope. Not frugal. Full install. I deleted all partitions, formatted the drive, re...

[quote="Semme"]Just update us if it gets you sorted, OK. We're here to help..[/quote] No luck. Grabbed the exit and shutdown pets and put them in a folder under 543. Booted 528 and separately installed, tested, and uninstalled each of the 4 pets I found. (Didn't have two different fixit in...

[quote="Semme"]Considering it's not what I signed up for- no, I don't. On second thought- see [url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77950]here[/url].[/quote]

Might not be what you signed on for, but you seem to have some talent for finding stuff.
Thanks
Ed

[quote="Semme"]Obviously- stick [url=http://www.caedes.net/Zephir.cgi?lib=Caedes::NewSearch]whatever you want[/url] in /usr/share/backgrounds..[/quote] Pass on that. Got a pic I like that wallpapered fine in 528. Nathan's didn't fix the problem, still crops it top and bottom. Also crashed ...

[quote="Semme"]Diplomacy fan here >> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69658[/quote]

Saw that before. Maybe read it too quickly. Thought the pets were just wallpapers, not programs.
Got them. I'll try one in a bit.
Thanks,
Ed

I was happy with 528 until it started doing odd things. Left it in place when I installed 543 and it's still on the boot menu. With 528 I was happy, but... All last year, Menu>Poweroff would get me a reboot. Didn't care, since I could safely turn off the box when it hit the MBR boot menu. Last week,...

I'm not a fan of Seamonkey. It'll do, I suppose, but I'm used to Firefox. Know where to look for everything and like that. So I ran package manager and clicked the Firefox 19 listed. It installed the 'Nightly' version of Firefox. I didn't like it. No particular reasons other than wanting a regular F...

Computer is a Dell Dimension B100. Got 5.4.3, did a full install on a partition of its own. Boot/shutdown fine (5.2.8 was iffy about that). For some things, I prefer 800x600. I was doing one of those things when I tried to use Package Manager. Didn't work. The PM screen came up apparently okay, but ...

[quote="cthisbear"]Good one Ed...very generous thought. Chris.[/quote] Free is nice, but fair is fair and lip service alone won't pay bills. Barry turned out a great little product that's become a mainstay here. That's worth a few bucks to me. And something I forgot to say earlier... Here'...