Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Libretto100ct]

Using it on a Aspire One D250 running off of a 2Gb Kingston data Traveler USB and it works fine.

VERY impressed with this little Netbook.

[Dpup]

Setup new Aspire One 10 inch D150 Netbook to boot from USB flash drive.

The internal wifi, a Broadcom was not recognized. Using nidsrapper installed the Broadcom wifi drivers from the hard drive XP delivered with the D150 and it then it connects to my wireless WPA2 TKIP router.

A second problem is no audio to speakers, but audio is at the head set connector. Researched this in the forums and found that the audio plays to the speakers with a newer kernel such as in Fat Dog 112, Unnamed11, NewyearspupMU micro rc10 and Barry's test Upup release 476.

The audio to speaker problem exists with all of the official releases of Puppy and derivatives with older kernel (and audio drivers).

Curious if anyone has a fix for getting audio to speakers with this derivative and the other official releases of Puppy with older kernel (and audio drivers).

Update 6/12/09 - Looked up the latest XP drivers on the Asus support site and noticed the wifi can be Atheros, Broadcom, or Intel. Only one audio driver, Realtek was listed. So the D150 comes in various flavors. Also saw battery comes in three sizes and which one cannot be determined by looking at the box !!!

[fabiomn1965]

Hello friend,

when are you going to upgrade to 4.2?

[iscraigh]

At this point I have no firm plans but may base one on puppy 5.0 Jpup.
I am currently playing with debris linux and quite like it also.


Craig

[ironclad]

Just going to bump this and ask another update question.

Have you decided to switch to debris or are you going to continue with puppy linux.

[iscraigh]

I still use puppy as my main distro although on both the kids laptops I am using linux4one now. I run the lite version on one and the regular on the other. The main reason for the switch was problems connecting to encrypted wireless (wpa) I could usually get it to work but it proved to be a constant irritant. This is an area that puppy still has challenges with, I am hoping that upup may have improvements in this area. It is unlikely I will have time for an updated version before the end of the year as I just started building a house so spare time is at a premium.
You should give it a go it is a great learning experience and the newer versions of puppy have a lot of the fixes.


Craig

[ironclad]

Thanks for the reply mate.

Actually I had better luck having my Arthos card recognized in Puppy 4.1.2. than 4.2.1. However, the WEP only encryption held me back in 4.1.2 and it is very annoying like you said.

I have half a mind to just buy a different wifi card so that it will work, even though I really don't want to take apart the netbook.

I would love to build my own puplet or compile apps for puppy but I am finding a lack of tutorials or guides. Do you know of any links to point me in the right direction?

EDIT:

First off, I just discovered that the HOW-TO section is full of useful information.

Secondly, I got wifi working with WPA keys! Just needed the madwifi pet and it worked from there.

[mpierrat25]

I tried to install iscraigh'iso on sda but ended up by crashing my system (my fault). So I decided rebuild my AA0 110 and made a full install of Macpup (Puppy 4.2) on the drive :

Linpus = 6 Go Macpup = 1Go Swap= 1Go
I used the working directories of Linpus, double boot is perfect (nice grub stuff of Macpup), WiFi is OK (ath-pci patch & aircrack-ng.pet)

Only problem : SD not recognized and consequently hanging at boot if extension card engaged.

I remember that with isgraih'iso it was possible to boot even with the card.

Could somebody give me the thread to fix this issue.

[paulh177]

iscraigh:

I just found this thread and put acer puppy on my aspire one 1gb ram 120gb hd.
Wireless light doesn't work.
Even when connected to a wireless network the icon in cairo-dock says "wireless n/a".


It's a nice distro and much more amenable to me than Linpus.
I would prefer a simpler WM/DE and less widgety stuff, so I want to see if I can go about creating my own remaster for my Aspire.

What I need to know is what the key changes you made to the distro to get it working properly with the hardware. I'm presuming you had to install some extra bits unrelated to the UI.
I see that rc.local is heavily modded, and assume you must have found a non-standard wireless driver (the ath5k and ath_pci from standard puppies don;t seem to work on mine -- which says on the back it's an atheros AR5BXB63) at the very least

So can you post what changes you made, what you installed (and from where?) to help me along?

thanks

Paul

[iscraigh]

I will probably not be incredibly helpful as I took no notes (very bad of me).
You are correct I had to make a few changes.

First of I used mu or wows pup as base it had the .27 kernel this supported the hardware better. If you reed over the aspire on threads you should find most of the fixes. If wireless does not work it is possible they have changed the chip again.

Try flicking the wireless switch and rebooting if it still does not work do it one more time.
Failing that you can see if mu posted a ath5k driver for the .27 kernel or one for the kernel you are using. the wireless lights won't work with out making a change can't remember what it is though (sorry have just got home from working 10 hours overtime)

For the wireless you could try ndiswrapper and the windows driver

I would suggest a newer kernel as a base, a lot of the fixes are integrated. I know I found a lot of info on sites for installing ubuntu on the aspire.

I am really sorry I am not much help just google a lot. I may try another one once my house is finished.

Craig

[tempestuous]

[paulh177]

I downloaded and frugally installed 430beta1 (2.6.29.6 kernel).
The wireless switch seems to work although the lights don't come on to indicate that.

The network wizard finds the wireless network interface OK (as wlan0 using ath5k), and I can scan for and find networks, but i can't connect to any of them (including my own, set for test purposes to open/no encryption).

Running net-setup.sh from the command line I can see:

[paulh177]

Despite getting open wireless access to work, I couldnt get it to go in 430beta; however iscraigh's Puplet worked fine with WPA

I copied over the contents of iscraigh's rc.local to my frugal 430beta, and WPA (and WPA2) burst into life.

I have no idea what the contents of the rc.local are doing ... but in case anyone else wants to try this with another Puppy, or wants to offer comments, here it is

[iscraigh]

For the onscreen stuff I used sven
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1169944710&t=9740

you need to convert .pup to .pet


Craig

[merch]

hi

I would love to test your build of puppy but it seems I can't download it from the link in your first post. Do I need a user/pass or is there another source I didnt find?

thank you,
merch