I love Puppy but am still not quite there, using Puppy as an office machine. I have it loaded on the hard drive and set up so most of the non-standard programs and all data is saved on hda3 (hda1 is swap and hda1 is Puppy) I got foxpro 2.6 running on puppy fine, via dosemu. But we use Basic Books, a...

I have deleted the sub-topic as misleading but still am soliciting comments on how to protect essential puppy operating files from accidental tampering/overwriting by a novice user. We are spending way too much time re-installing puppy on student's computers after the student of a member of his fami...

Thanks everyone. I see there is quite a bit of history here. I am now looking over raffy's site at

http://bexa.org/pup/

John

Hi folks, We are continuing with our project of getting computers into the hands of kids here in Reno who don't have a computer in their home. We are using Puppy and it is going sort of well. We have pretty much given up on our idea of getting the kids up on the internet. It is just too expensive, w...

"Can someone (or several someones) give a few examples of the DOS programs they would be able to run with an emulator? No hurry, just curious."

I still use foxpro 2.6. I suppose it would run on dosbox but it runs great on dosemu. Open Office now reads foxpro (dbase) files.

For what its worth, you might try puppy 2.10. I can't remember the model, but I recently installed about 10 new Belkin wireless modems in standard desktop computers and they worked fine. Didn't do anything other than a) download puppy 2.10 and install it on the hard drive b) insert the driver cd rom...

On my SuSE system, when I want to use my Toshiba projector (shows on large 4' screen), I set the video in YaST to "dual Mode." Is there something similar in Puppy? As the projector 'mirrors' whatever is on my screen, I suspect that all I need to do is send the video output to a second moni...

PS

I shouldn't say the WPC54G ver 4 "doesn't work." It just doesn't work on a 128 key encrypted network.

John

Is there a way I can mark this thread solved? This morning, I took out the wireless PCMCIA card out of the Omnibook 900 Pentium II, which, as I posted last night (I think) worked and put it into the Omnibook 900 Pentium III which I had been trying to get to work (online) for the past several days. T...

Hate to keep bothering you folks, but have some very relevant information: I am typing this on and sending it from an old Omnibook 900 running puppy 2.10 only from the hard drive (just like the one I have been having such trouble with). Just thought I would try it before hitting the sack. 1. Typed i...

After several beers:

In SuSE, for some reason, to get the wireless to work I occasionally have to type

ifdown eth1
ifup ath0

and sometimes

ifdown lo

Only then, sometimes, will the wireless work. But in puppy, I can't find an "ifup" or an "ifdown" command.

John

Perhaps the following might cause someone to think of something that might help: Here is what W.A.G. shows: wireless card active wireless card not responding no module loaded dhcpcd not running wifi-beta not installed wlan0 enabled no IP assigned to wlan0 access point acquired Connected to: wlan0 IE...

Couple of additional notes: When I rebooted, I typed: "modprobe ndiswrapper" as I normally do. Then I put in Blackadder's iwconfig line and got the following error: "Error for wireless request 'Set Frequency' (8B04) :" I then went into the WAG gui (WAG 0.3.2) and not until I atte...

Took a bit of time off to watch the Redskins game. Then back to it. Blackadder's comments were great but still not online. Machine took the first line (iwconfig etc) fine. But the second line (dhcpcd etc) only gave me a MAC address. It did not give me an IP (I was mistaken in my last email saying I ...

Hi Pizzasgood, I am still having trouble. After spending much of yesterday and most of today, I still can't get on the encrypted network. Perhaps I should give up on the Puppy GUI altogether and try your way (command line, I think). It seems to me illogical that I can't get on. I have a standard lin...

Thanks. I will try it tomorrow night on an encrypted network. I figure if I can get it working on one, I can get it to work on the kids'. I am still not sure if the IP address is that of my machine, or the wireless router. But I know the ESSID and I suspect I can get from that the Network ID. I bet ...

Thanks Pizzasgood! I certainly appreciate that you figured all this out long ago (wish I had) and don't at all quarrel with your suggestion that the gui way of doing things is less than perfect. But I am a 62 year old lawyer trying to help our Lions club get poor kids some kind of internet access fr...

Come on, Guys, Could I please get a response? I get on the internet fine, when the network is not encrypted. But if WEP is turned on, I am not able to get online. Whatever clues you might have, even it no formal template, would be most appreciated. I would venture to guess that almost all wireless n...

Does your computer happen to be a Compaq nc6000?

John

Hi folks, Could someone post a copy of a template that works with WEP? Or with some explanation of the various fields in the Template? I might be able to figure it out if I saw how someone else did it? Hate to keep bothering the forum. It may be some justification that I am a adult advisor of a Lion...