Both wired ethernet and WiFi have worked on several laptops, through several versions of Puppy. Yea. But I have a new HP Mini (model 2140) ... it's cute as Puppy. The ethernet interface (for info -- it works) is: Broadcom 5788 10/100/1000 LAN √ √ S3/S4/S5 wake on LAN: DC - no √ √ S3/S4/S5 wake on LA...

I've periodically found ... some process .... hogging RAM. To the point that an idle puppy porks out and crashes -- cold boot required. With 4.3, I found by regular use where the culprit lies: the browser. Behavior. I'm running default with JWM and the RAM usage applet in lower starboard corner. Eve...

First, I think Gabe has some sensible entropy-control suggestions and for the mainstream release, I second them. The apps have churned a bit much, retro to old hardware is a good thing, ... Second. Most gadgets that we want to attach to the internet are not safe to run off the leash on the freeway. ...

Jackpot.

tempestuous' solution does indeed work.

I'm saving rcrsn51's for some other tight spot -- it looks promising too.

Thanks to both of you for the gouge.

All Puppy2 (including v2.17) fail to boot from CD that's attached to PCMCIA interface. Bootup falls into a single-user shell, at which point the CD interface is forgotten about ... goes no farther. (Puppy1 installations do boot this way). Specific hardware is Sony VIAO PCG-C1X (aka Picturebook) with...

The setup script in puppy 2.15 is working nicely; this setup came right up and found my neighbor's access point. WiFi PCMCIA card from 3Com, model AirConnect 3CRWE737A (several years old, the price was right). It loads the orinoco_cs driver. (The antenna on this card doesn't appear to be too efficie...

Hardware: Dell Latitude D600 (about 5 years old) Machine has installed 802.3 ethernet and 802.11 wifi NICs wifi interface is IPW2100 Through several editions of Puppy, the wired ethernet has worked reliably. But WiFi did not and I was never able to troubleshoot it until now. There is one part where ...

I'd like to upgrade a Sony Vaio Picturebook (PCG-C1X) from Puppy 1.07 to 2.12. I'm stuck. - This box has a CDROM with a PCMCI interface. 1.07 will boot from that, but later 1. won't without hiccups and none of the v2 versions do. - box has a USB port, but won't boot from it. I have three partitions ...

Good suggestion, but didn't help ... past that. lsmod shows usb-storage there all right. More sit/stay commands revealed this: - MUT will dutifully mount /dev/sr0. It's read-only and shows a file type that looks like CD-rom (same as above, no new information). - but if you go up the directory, lo-be...

nope, no sda or sdb at all.... neither MUT nor fdisk will dredge one of those up. only /dev/sr0 for what is apparently the public partition.

Anybody had experience with one of these and Linux? ... Puppy or otherwise? Kingston's web page says: DataTraveler Elite USB 2.0 Flash Drive with Software Security + 128-bit Data Encryption But I can't find support for anything other than Windows ... and specifically XP at that. What it does. Kingst...

I too have a Picturebook. Except it only has 64M or RAM, not 64G.

1.0.n versions of Puppy would boot and I installed something like 1.0.5 to hard drive. Which works cleanly.

But Puppy2 produces exactly the same hang symptoms for me too.

The acrobat reader dot.pup fails. - the download file is labeled acroreadnnnn.pup.pup (the .pup is repeated) - there's nothing in the file. I also tried to install from .rpm directly from Adobe's page ... no joy. /usr/bin/acroread is there all right but even after chmod u+x it won't come up. Why. I ...

Barry, Older laptops come with 600x800 screens; i have 3 handmedowns of that format (IBM Thinkpad 240) ... two are running puppy as we speak. (These all lack CDs so Puppy is preloaded on another machine). I have one Sony Viao Picturebook with a 1024x480 (!) screen. But this format is quite rare (cut...

hadn't seen the page you referenced before. But the install-to-USB stick could benefit from some of this. The syslinux call at the end of install-to-USB installs a _patch_ to the MBR. If there's no MBR there at all, this does no good. Similarly, if there's a FreeBSD MBR there, the patch won't work e...

I booted Puppy from USB stick. It does work! But there are a couple gotchas; justgreg was on a hot thread above. HOWTO Step 1. format the USB stick as vfat (aka FAT16; also 06 on the fdisk pick list). You should be able to skip this step on most out-of-box USB sticks as this is the default. (but wor...

Hoot! After months of tinkering off and on, got it to work. 1. fdisk or similar. format as vfat (what usually comes out of the box) and one partition for the whole stick. 2. mkdosfs (there are a couple different names). if you don't make the file system, you brick-wall (ask me how I know this). it's...

as jmarsden noted, most linux distributions have both ssh and sshd installed (client and server side respectively). puppy has ssh (client) installed; sshd is out there as a dotpup so you need to get it if you want to use puppy as the ssh server. It does work, btw. ssh has a timeout; if its unused fo...

Most likely problem: puppy not recognizing USB keyboard. Description. Boot sequence works up to the point where the pup001 location is requested (which is the first occasion for keyboard input). At this point keyboard is not recognized; frozen. Requires cold boot to get out. Hardware. This occurs on...

Rarsa's on the right track, IMHO. In addition to using SSH, which I'd recommend, look at rsync. If you're only familiar with Windows, neither will be familiar to you -- both grew up in the linux/unix world. rsync does indeed tunnel through ssh (one of the configuration switches) and it has a syntax ...