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Pup214R v1.00 - Puppy Linux 2.14 Revisited, is now available
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tempestuous
Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 4944 Location: Australia |
twointo1, In the next day or so I will package the original zd1211rw driver (with firmware) as a dotpet. But in the meantime, there is some extra information you may wish to try. You could try to configure your wifi device from the commandline, as I explained in a HOWTO here - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22469 this has the benefit of running setup commands one at a time, and it's easier to diagnose exactly where the problem is. But there is one major deviation from those instructions I would suggest; you will see in the HOWTO this command
This makes the wifi network interface active before running the iwconfig setup commands ... but I read somewhere that the Zydas driver won't work this way. If true, you will see an error when you try to run the iwconfig commands. So before running the iwconfig command, do this first -
then run the iwconfig commands with the network in this inactive state. Hopefully the iwconfig command will now work. If you get to this stage successfully, it will then probably be necessary to make the interface active before running the dhcpcd command. |
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Sage
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB |
Have been playing with Muppy008beta in the last two days. Although it's a lot bigger, Mark has worked miracles on what is, essentially, the same release. Everything works and for reasons I will never understand, he has been able to substantially speed up the whole procedure. Now that he is back on the scene, if it can be organised, a four-way collaboration might produce staggering results? It's got to be correct to fix everything, well - nearly everything - before moving forward? |
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Dougal
 Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 2505 Location: Hell more grotesque than any medieval woodcut |
I completely removed all the jwm-theme ingredients, as I consider it a cumbersome and inefficient way of doing it. When you use the gtk-theme selector, pressing "set jwm" automatically generates a JWM theme from the gtk theme you selected. That way it is more flexible and can be applied to any gtk-theme you install (the only problem is that the gtk theme has to have the colours in hex triplets). _________________ What's the ugliest part of your body? Some say your nose Some say your toes But I think it's your mind |
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Dougal
Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 2505 Location: Hell more grotesque than any medieval woodcut |
A tip for people using s frugal install: You can specify in the commandline (=grub menu entry) which pup_save to use. You just need to add the PUPSAVE line from /etc/rc.d/PUPSTATE, but remember to remove the quotes ('). Example: PUPSAVE=ext3,hda3,/pup_save2.3fs Note that the script will assume that the pup_214R.sfs is in the same place as your pup_save, so if it isn't, you'll have to specify it: SFSFILE=ext3,hda4,/pup_214R.sfs (you can also specify the zdrv, but it's not critical: ZDRV=ext3,hda3,/zdrv_214.sfs ) So the grub menu line you end up with is something like this:
What this is good for: if you specify the pup_save, the init script completely skip the part that searches your hard-drive, going directly to the PUPMODE calculation and mounting -- which can save some time. Did I mention you can also specify PUPMODE? This way you can force it to run in PUPMODE=13 on non-flash media. _________________ What's the ugliest part of your body? Some say your nose Some say your toes But I think it's your mind |
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davec51
Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 474 Location: Virginia |
I love 2.14R, but a small request: How do I change the time format? I prefer the 12-hour display, with no date. |
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Dougal
Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 2505 Location: Hell more grotesque than any medieval woodcut |
Maybe there's a problem with your graphic card when shutting down X. You should try selecting "exit to prompt" from the menu, then type "wmreboot" and see if it reboots and gives you the option to create a save file. _________________ What's the ugliest part of your body? Some say your nose Some say your toes But I think it's your mind |
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HairyWill
 Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK |
for a brief explanation of the jwm clock see here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=157480#157480 _________________ Will contribute: community website, screenshots, puplets, wiki, rss |
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Dougal
Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 2505 Location: Hell more grotesque than any medieval woodcut |
If you open /root/.jwmrc-tray (hidden file) and find the clock entry, you'll find a comment explaining how to change it. _________________ What's the ugliest part of your body? Some say your nose Some say your toes But I think it's your mind |
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HairyWill
Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK |
Dougal apologies I wasn't in 214R at the time and had forgotten that you had already thought of the date formatting. I couple of gnats you may wish to squash in the on going pursuit of perfection. Whilst I was in .jwmrc-tray I noticed that the panel button declaration had got messed up. This was because I had used the jwm configurator to edit the buttons. I hadn't actually changed anything but I don't think the editor can cope with the comments round the TrayButtons. (this need fixing in puppy trunk as well) Also man rxvt got me a 404 from http://www.ece.umr.edu/web-cgi/unixsoft.cgi?command=rxvt I don't know how long this has been a problem. Relying on other people's man cgi seems a little fragile to me, (I know its the way Barry has always done it, linking to wikipedia seems even worse). I presume the reason that Barry doesn't host his own is because of the cost of maintaining it to be used by anybody not just puppy users. I have an alternative suggestion that I may well implement if nobody else does first. On the wikki a locked page with a list of man cgi servers like the PSI repository list. If man doesn't find a local page, it downloads the list and starts hitting the servers until it finds one where the request succeeds. Then it downloads the man page and saves it locally so the next time it will be found locally. This trades off loosing some pup_save space against reduced bandwith (good for dial-up  ) and could be more resilient.
_________________ Will contribute: community website, screenshots, puplets, wiki, rss |
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klu9
Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 345 |
a bit late to the party, but here are some additional ways to download the 2.14R iso: Metalink (use Aria2): http://www.metamirrors.nl/backend/get.php?lnk=http://ipup.minipc.org/download/pup214R-1.00.iso CoBlitzed (use regular download method): http://coblitz.codeen.org/www.puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/Pup214R/pup214R-1.00.iso |
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davec51
Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 474 Location: Virginia |
Dougal and Hairy Will, you have solved my problem yet again. I should put both of you into my will, or something. |
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cb88
 Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1160 Location: USA |
heh... but then they would figure out some way to have puppy electrocute you when you boot your PC 
_________________ Taking Puppy Linux to the limit of perfection. meanwhile try "puppy pfix=duct_tape" kernel parem eater. BeOS Max-Vectorgamma: Tyan thund 2 512 ram 2x PII 300 Vectorsigma (laptop): Gentoo Athlon II X2 2Ghz 4Gb ram radeon 4200 mesa-git |
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HairyWill
Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK |
No worries. Would that be worth much? Are you intending on dying soon? Do you need my address? _________________ Will contribute: community website, screenshots, puplets, wiki, rss |
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fudgy
 Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 86 Location: Berlin, Germany |
Thanks Leon, thanks Dougal, frugal works fine now. You need to have root=/dev/ram0 in the grub commandline. It got redundant in later versions (2.16.1 I think). |
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raffy
Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila |
Here's probepart results on Compaq Presario (with firewire). USB devices can't be mounted by 214R.
- the capacities shown are 2x of the actual capacity (ie, f1 is a 512-MB USB drive). EDIT: Barry has clarified this:
- pmount, hotplug and MUT all fail mounting USB devices. - the extra line generated by probepart (at the top) is noticeable. As to the GX466 machine where 2.12-2.16 Puppies can't boot, here's the info:
_________________ Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? Get the sfs (English only). Last edited by raffy on Thu 06 Dec 2007, 03:14; edited 1 time in total |
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