@ 8-bit I have not set up email on it yet ... but thats a thought I'll keep in mind for later ... I sat and watched it for quite some time and the kb/s were tiny ...like 0.1...0.7 range and just randomly occuring I deleted all cookies in firefox and even rebooted and it still occurs ... Keep in mind...

hay all, so im trying to learn this linux stuff on an old thinkpad ...with slacko57 im giving my eyes a rest from searching forums and whatnot ...close out the browser (firefox 27.0.1) a few minutes of sipping coffee and petting the cat i happen to notice the download speed widget on my seemingly id...

Thanks for the hints ...and links ...I'll bookmark them for a later time Just getting my headphones to work was the main goal ATM... The combo of the dongle (trendnet tbw-106ub) and headphones (Sony mdr-r1bt) does work on aWin7 machine and from what I've read works fine on some version or other of &...

Have made some progress ( I think) Found something called Blueman r708 in the slackware repo's... installed it and recommended dependent pkgs... I now have a menu item called bluetooth manager which clicking does absolutely nothing ... another check of dependencies reveals missing lib... libpython2....

After having some time to tinker around on the new 57 nonpae I have noticed a few oddities... Mostly non working buttons or key combo's ... FnF4 sleep FnF3 screen off Fn space magnify page back page forward also the half moon sleep light does not come on with lid closed.. Im not exactly sure its goi...

Thanks anyway "ally" ...

@01micko

I have just installed the new 57 onto usb and its up and running nicely

I am posting from it now

all seems fine OTB

thank you!

As suggested from the beginners forum by @gcmartin and @p310don I have booted the new 57 onto my older Thinkpad with the oddball Pent M processor (i686 but no pae) I did download the non pae version and have it installed to 16gb usb which it has booted off of nicely ...everything seems to be running...

@gcmartin

Im sorry if you got the impression I was talking about two different machines ...

I just have the one Thinkpad which happens to have the oddball Pent M processor that is both I686 AND nonPAE

I am at the moment downloading the 5.7 p310don suggests and will give it a shot

Thanks gcmartin I do understand the pae feature on the processor is for addressing additional ram ... my older laptop is maxed out at 2gig so the pae part "i think" is not a concern to me What Im wondering about is the fact that non pae versions of current puppies are also NOT for i686 ......

Hello All, It seems I have the oddball processor Pent M which is i686 but non PAE ... From what little I have learned about Puppy is that the newer versions built for the i686 are PAE and the non PAE version revert back to i486 ...or worse back to i386 Yes this is a somewhat old machine but its not ...

I'm happt to report that superlucid 004 (thats the 528 stab in the dark choice) did download and burn an .ISO without freezing up the system. I used pburn to first blank the cdrw ...then burn the .ISO to it ..... However , it wont boot ... I get the splash screen and then an error 8000 and something...

@gcmartin This implies that you have a running distro of some Operating System and that your problem is getting that Operating system to create a CD/DVD disc from a PUP ISO you downloaded, because the system is freezing when trying to run the software to create the disc from the ISO. Is this a corre...

@gcmartin sorry to report I have NOT found "the one" i have tried and older 525...the new slako56... both froze up the machine when trying to burn a new iso... I now have a (stab in the dark choice) version of 528 I found here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90461 the one with...

I took a stab in the dark and picked a version of 528 that looked like it had the biggest (newest ?) kernel number ....3.9.9...turns out to be 528.004 i think? again I tried to use the slako56 to download and burn this ....again totaly seizing up my laptop and again rebooting to XP to get the job do...

Hello All Being an admitted MS Zombie and really only looking at Linux because XP is due to be dropped from support The first and foremost question on my mind is ... which Linux works best on MY machine I happened to get here by way of an old disc given to me with puppy 525 on it... which btw instal...

I must say from the viewpoint of a MS zombie trying to look behind the curtain the "1000 different types" is frustratingly confusing to say the least. It looks like even the 528 version has somewhat splintered into various versions ......how does one who knows almost nothing of linux choos...

i chose the non PAE because it mentioned it for machines with less than 4gb ram ..... something like that .... this old thing is maxed out at 2gb so thats why i chose it . Actually I think im going to redo it with 528 because it sounds like a more mature ...all the kinks worked out version and since...

wow ...sooo many choises ! For some reason my signature isnt showing up ... this is my laptop.. IBM thinkpad R51 2888HU1 .. pent M 1.5 gb... 2 gb ram ... intel onboard graphics Its the little 14 inch version anyway ...now im actually on slako 5.6 (non PAE) :oops: ... I tried to download it and burn ...

I expect that with the loss of support for XP coming I will probably just wipe all the MS stuff off of it ... its only got a 40gb harddrive anyway and XP and all its pretty full


unless im looking in the wrong place fatdog appears to be a 64bit ... this old thing is 32