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eliza_a · Joined: 24 Sep 2008 Posts: 8

as others have pointed out http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/NOP/ has exceeded its limit

I get a 404 with http://puppylinux.igsobe.com/puppylinux/tpp/NOP/

is there another download site that I've missed?

thanks

jeepinpete · Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 13

I managed to download Boxpup. Very nice to look at, and it looks promising to use. But wireless is not working in any shape or form. I've tried Puppy 4.0 & 4.1, both work out of the box. Boxpup is not showing a wlan0 or eth0, and when I try to load the drivers manually, it fails (bcm43xx). I was going to try to download it again, but run into the same issues mentioned above. Any ideas?

gray · Posted: Wed 26 Nov 2008, 15:45 Post subject: Alternate download

Alternate download site:

http://download.tuxfamily.org/nop

.

Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 290 Location: SW Wisconsin

jeepinpete,

I'm running Boxpup 4.1.? on a Dell inspiron 4000 with a Buffalo PCMCIA wireless card with a Broadcom 43xx chip. After using ndiswrapper with this kit through maaaany pups, native support for the BCM43xx finally works reliably for me!

Booting either Boxpup 4.1.? or NOP 4.10/4.1.1 from original CD or ataflash installation, running the network wizard and scanning detects my WEP net connection correctly. Entering my WEP key (I prefix it with s: as I use an alphanumeric key), saving the profile, then choosing to use that profile brings up my wireless connection reliably, and it is done correctly on reboot.

If you scan from within the network wiz what do you see?

37fleetwood · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 403

Just when most people would tell you that Open Box was too small and simple and offered no eye candy you come up with this brilliant and modern looking Puplet! I like it, I like it alot! I still think the new Puppy should be modeled after either one of your Puplets. I was stunned with NOP and now I am amazed by Boxpup, I guess that leaves me stunned and amazed? Shocked

Scott

myman_05 · Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Posts: 27

delete the .xlockrc still have the problem.

Laughing

the most beutiful and fast puplet

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2445 Location: Texas, USA

I really like your Boxpup derivative with it's clean, modern interface and it works great on my Dell 8250.

One problem (solved), my preferred e-mail application is thunderbird and to install it you have to add libstdc++.so.5 to /usr/lib which is normally included in other distributions.

Thanks again,
Jim

T_Hobbit · Joined: 27 May 2006 Posts: 400 Location: Portugal - Lisbon

Upgraded to 4.1.?
But I forgot to save the vortex background... Can anyone send me that background?

Thanks

myman_05 · Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Posts: 27

jeepinpete · Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 13

Marv, the problem is there is nothing to scan in Network Manager. In other derivatives of Puppy, my wireless shows up as eth0, and the ethernet port shows as eth1. Regular Puppy 4.0 and 4.1 both show both ports this way. Boxpup only shows my ethernet port as eth0. When I go into Network Manager and try to load the BCM43xx module, it still doesn't see the hardware. I've tried using the wrapper, with the same negative result. I'm downloading Boxpup again from the new link, hopefully something got hosed on the first download.

Pete

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK

myman_05 · Joined: 07 Oct 2008 Posts: 27

gray · Posted: Fri 19 Dec 2008, 04:58 Post subject: Update to 4.1.2

Boxpup has been updated to 4.1.2 standard (bug fixes as per Barry's blog).
Also updated Opera version to 9.63 and Abiword to 2.6.4

Merry Christmas

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4767 Location: GB

Two for the price of one, today - who's been a busy boy, then.
Many thanks, g. Should keep me quiet for a few days...

Update: oh boy, you really have excelled yourself with this one, g. With Opera, this is difficult to beat and obviates the need to revert to vanilla P.