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perixx
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#101 Post by perixx »

Hi Leon....

I'm pretty sure that I've used exactly the same settings as you did - apaprt from non-using synchronous DSL... I'm not sure about THAT one and will try - though I'm not quite convinced by this.

Right now, I'm struggling to revive my Puppy 2.15's X-server that I've all wrecked by 'upgrading' to Xorg 7.2 - now all I get when trying to run graphical apps is this:
'libxcb-xlib.so.0' cannot be found or some such thing. Just for the sake of curiosity - I'd like to have that fixed instead of a fresh install...


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Puppy 3.01

#102 Post by pdrito »

Same as Béèm here:

Gxine freezes on movies. :cry: :cry:

pdrito.

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#103 Post by 106498 »

First of all congratulations puppy 3.01 finally got me using linux fulltime!

My problem is the same as a few others already posted. When I play mp3s in gxine if I resize windows and stuff like that it freezes completely and won't restart until I restart X server.

Is this a gxine bug or a puppy bug?

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alphanumeric WEP key minor problem

#104 Post by Marv »

Running NOP 3.01, a lively and very capable pup. In 3.01, and I believe as far back as 2.16, if a 13 character ALPHANUMERIC WEP key is used, the wireless wizard omits s: before the key in the /etc/wlan0wireless file it creates. ie
iwconfig wlan0 key open 123456abcdefg is written
iwconfig wlan0 key open s:123456abcdefg should be

Doesn't matter if a straight numeric key is used, as the s: isn't required, and is easily edited once you know.
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#105 Post by Béèm »

It was there before and detection was done at boot time and at least the ohci1394 and ieee1394 modules were loaded.
The eth1394 had to be loaded by hand then.

Now only the ohci1394, ieee1394 and eth1394 are there not the other xxx1394 (like dv1394) and none are loaded at boot.

Looks like a regression in this area.
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#106 Post by Marv »

In 3.01 and 3.01 NOP, a universal installer install either directly to ideflash or to USB for transfer to ideflash results in PUPMODE 12 in /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE and the Pupsave file is mounted directly to the top layer.

Is this a bug which renders 3.01 useless for flash installations or is it an intentional change?

My concern is writing overly often to the flash so it's back to 2.16 for now.
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#107 Post by wingruntled »

I think I found a bug in the set-time-for-puppy app. After setting the time and clicking OK the screen goes black for a few seconds and "after" it return there is a window saying "Your screen might turn black now for some seconds, just wait..."
I,m not a programmer but it seems to me that the below two lines should be reversed in this app.
date $DT
Xdialog --title "info" --msgbox "Your screen might turn black now for some seconds, just wait..." 0 0

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#108 Post by perixx »

Hello again, Leon!


I have set up Puppy 3.01 on my HDD now; the problem with non-functional internet access remains persistent, though!

Although I've doublechecked and set everything as you said - also manually eth0 - I only can start the ppp0 connection on eth0 with Roaring Penguin (Blinky shows 2 green signals), but I CAN'T access any internet sites with mozilla! I even automagically set the firewall.

'chap- and pap-secrets' are set correctly, as are the DNS-servers. Ifconfig will show a seemingly working network, eth0 and ppp0 are looking good from what I can judge. BUT I cannot ping the DNS-servers, not even the localhost 127.0.0.1 in the console!


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#109 Post by Leon »

perixx wrote: Although I've doublechecked and set everything as you said - also manually eth0 - I only can start the ppp0 connection on eth0 with Roaring Penguin (Blinky shows 2 green signals), but I CAN'T access any internet sites with mozilla! I even automagically set the firewall.
Maybe I can give you some advise if you copy a contents of your

/root/.etc/ppp/rp-pppoe-gui/conf.(your_connection_name)

file and paste it here.

You can delete the 4th line in your post or change it to:

USER=XXXXX

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#110 Post by perixx »

Leon,

currently I'm working in Xubuntu; do you know how to mount the pup_save.2fs - or is the questionable file in within the pup_301.sfs..?
Sorry for the inconvenience...


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#111 Post by perixx »

Hello again, I'm back Leon!

Here are the contents as requested...

conf.DSL:
# Configuration file for connection `ArcorDSL'.
# Automatically generated. Do not edit by hand.

USER=xxxxxxxxxx
ETH=eth0
DNSTYPE=SPECIFY
PEERDNS=no
DNS1=195.xxxxxxxxxx
DNS2=195.xxxxxxxxxx
SYNCHRONOUS=no
FIREWALL=MASQUERADE
SERVICENAME=
ACNAME=
CONNECT_TIMEOUT=30
CONNECT_POLL=1
FORCEPING="."
PIDFILE=/var/run/pppoe-DSL.pid
CLAMPMSS=1412
LCP_INTERVAL=20
LCP_FAILURE=3
PPPOE_TIMEOUT=80
LINUX_PLUGIN=
DEMAND=no
DEFAULTROUTE=yes
connection-info:
# RP-PPPoE GUI Configuration Information.
# This file may *look* human-editable, but it is NOT.
# So, you with the text editor: Keep away from this file.
#
{ConnectionName DSL UserName xxxxxxxxx NetworkName {} Interface eth0 DNSType Specify DNS1 195.xxxxxxxxxxx DNS2 195.xxxxxxxxxx NonrootOK 0 Sync 0 FirewallType Masquerading ServiceName {} ACName {}}
Btw.: why isn't the password stored in encrypted form??


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#112 Post by Leon »

perixx wrote:conf.DSL:
# Configuration file for connection `ArcorDSL'.
# Automatically generated. Do not edit by hand.

USER=xxxxxxxxxx
ETH=eth0
DNSTYPE=SPECIFY
PEERDNS=no
DNS1=195.xxxxxxxxxx
DNS2=195.xxxxxxxxxx
SYNCHRONOUS=no
FIREWALL=MASQUERADE
SERVICENAME=
ACNAME=
CONNECT_TIMEOUT=30
CONNECT_POLL=1
FORCEPING="."
PIDFILE=/var/run/pppoe-DSL.pid
CLAMPMSS=1412
LCP_INTERVAL=20
LCP_FAILURE=3
PPPOE_TIMEOUT=80
LINUX_PLUGIN=
DEMAND=no
DEFAULTROUTE=yes
connection-info:
# RP-PPPoE GUI Configuration Information.
# This file may *look* human-editable, but it is NOT.
# So, you with the text editor: Keep away from this file.
#
{ConnectionName DSL UserName xxxxxxxxx NetworkName {} Interface eth0 DNSType Specify DNS1 195.xxxxxxxxxxx DNS2 195.xxxxxxxxxx NonrootOK 0 Sync 0 FirewallType Masquerading ServiceName {} ACName {}}
Hi perixx,

The settings that you posted are the same as mine except for this one:

FIREWALL=MASQUERADE

When I changed it too 'FIREWALL=MASQUERADE' I noticed the same symptoms as you described. I always use:

FIREWALL=STANDALONE

Try this one and report results.

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#113 Post by perixx »

No Leon,


It's a matter of fact that my DSL-connection
'JUST WON'T RUN'.

I've tried all those combinations and NOTHING works - not even trying to manually set up the network:

'ifconfig eth0 inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add net 192.168.0.2 mask 0.0.0.0. gw'
or
'pon dsl-provider'
or
'pppd user "USERNAME" eth0 noipdefault usepeerdns' (will give an error about 'unknown option eth0'!?)

Nothing will help. Maybe I'm doing some wrong manual setup here, but if nothing works, this usually does under Ubuntu - and after all I shouldn't need this things with Roaring at all! Darn, why isn't pppoeconf at hand...

I simply won't get further but having two green lights at Roaring's network indicator and my DSL-modem showing me that it's connected to my ethernet. Firefox doesn't find anything.

And yes, IT MUST BE A BUG in my opinion (driver, RoaringPenguin or sth. in between)
- or some wicked undocumented changes in how to configure network!


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#114 Post by Leon »

perixx wrote:Maybe I'm doing some wrong manual setup here, but if nothing works, this usually does under Ubuntu - and after all I shouldn't need this things with Roaring at all! Darn, why isn't pppoeconf at hand...
perixx,

Berry mentioned some links to pages with instructions on how to set up DSL connection without Roaring Penguin package.

http://puppylinux.com/blog/?p=11

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#115 Post by perixx »

Thank you Leon, I'll check this one out!

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RALINK wifi drivers WPA problems

#116 Post by davids45 »

G'day,
This bug (a change from 2.17) has been reported in a few places in the wider forum.
With Puppy 2.17, I had my wifi found and set-up-able under WPA by the Network wizard on my two desktop computers. The wifi devices on both these computers are RALINK 2500 usb built-in (according to XP).
Puppy 3.01's wizard preloads a RT2570 usb driver then tells me I cannot run WPA with this (???) and then goes ahead with trying to set up WEP (!!!).
WEP is OK if one of my neighbours has their unprotected networks running at the same time, but I'd rather use my own WPA-managed wireless network.
NDISwrapper works on one desktop if I set it up each time (rmmod the RT driver but 3.01 wont save the settings??) and on the other desktop computer, the Windows drivers are described as 'invalid' by 3.01 when I tried them with NDISWRAPPER.

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#117 Post by tempestuous »

3.01 may have worked for you simply because its startup scripts give priority to the (newer) rt73 driver instead of the rt2570 driver.

The complex situation with Ralink and WPA in Linux is explained here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 339#159339

If you read (and understand) that information, it's possible to bypass the Network Wizard altogether and take full control of your wifi configuration ... which can be a very effective and empowering process.

Later, to automate the setup you can create a script with the necessary commands, then launch this script from a desktop icon.

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3.01 bug?

#118 Post by tony »

Hi,

my full hard drive install of 3.01 gets itself into an endless loop on startup. You can only get out of it by switching to xvesa.
See this thread.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 537#159537

regards Tony.

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#119 Post by davids45 »

G'day Temp,

Thanks for your reply to my issues with 3.01 and my RALINK usb2500 desktops. I'll have a go with what you've outlined in your referenced posting when I go home tonight.

Is it possible to replace the driver for the usb RT2570 in 3.01 which doesn't work in the 3.01 wizard with the driver from 2.17 which does support WPA and works via the wizard in 2.17 in both desktops? I had a quick pfind for a rt2570 driver file in 3.01 but could not locate anything? What would it be called?
I'd also need to find and copy the good driver file in 2.17. But I'd look harder if I knew this file swap would be a simple solution. Or is the 3.01 wizard the problem?

David S.

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trapped by Roaring Penguin

#120 Post by prehistoric »

This one didn't bite me until I tried to set up a wireless network for a friend with a DSL modem using my laptop (Dell Latitude D600 booting off usbflash). At home I use a wireless link or direct connect through a cable to a router with DHCP. Because of wiring problems at the new site, the connection between the WLAN router and the modem did not work. After trying DHCP and failing, tried PPPoE with Roaring_Penguin. This also failed, but not before I hit the save button. After this, the default connection was set to "exec tkpppoe". Even going back to the Setup menu or Icon did not give me the option of changing the radio button. Ended up finding default connection, in /usr/local/bin and changing back.

Even when the default connection is set, explicit use of Setup should take you back to the choosing all network options. Anyone else run into this?

prehistoric

For years I have been saying "no network is ever really debugged." Forums are also CSMA/CD. Is it time to do an exponential backoff?

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