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Patriot · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 734

Hmmm .....

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

Yep that's likely what the problem is - needs a stop option. Back to work for me... Smile

[Edit - yup, that solves it. Thanks for the hint - I should have realized that... Idea

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mikeb · Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 11331

Actually I do find a little quirk in that I have a mini script to check battery status in startup but even though exec and & is used delayedrun hangs around

mike

ps I fix the dirtiness for full installs but for frugal although this is handled the union prevents cleanliness

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 26 Jan 2010, 19:19 Post subject:

ecomoney · Posted: Tue 26 Jan 2010, 21:01 Post subject:

So..."getting online" in general needs to be easier?

In two reviews, this is mentioned. Both are on the front page of google, under "puppy linux review"

http://lifehacker.com/307542/taking-puppy-linux-for-a-walk
http://discuss.extremetech.com/forums/thread/1004423950.aspx

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

That's what the Pwireless2 project attempts to correct. Unfortunately, connecting wireless on Linux is really freaking complicated! Fixing a problem for one person, breaks things for another. And it seems as if every device driver acts a little differently, and there are way too many combinations of encryption types to feel like the problem is ever adequately solved. [/rant]

If anyone feels motivated, I could always use more help. Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 26 Jan 2010, 21:54 Post subject:

I'd be happy with a autolan connection that searches for eth0 and if it doesn't find a live connection it then looks for eth1 without updating Dhcpcd. Wireless is and will always be a pain, probably better to have something autostart very well than nothing at all. And jemimah your doing a great job Smile

ttuuxxx

jemimah · Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL

With the old dhcpcd you might be able to just start up a dhcpcd for each wired interface, whether it's up or not, and it will just wait for a carrier (not confirmed since I don't have an ethernet cable with me.)

I don't think you can safely assume wired interfaces are necessarily named eth*. And you have to figure out what you want to do when someone needs a static IP.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Tue 26 Jan 2010, 22:41 Post subject:

I just downloaded bitdefender 2010 live cd, based on knoppix Linux http://download.bitdefender.com/rescue_cd/BitDefenderRescueCD_v2.0.0_3_08_2009.iso its 230mb, anyways it connect to the internet and downloaded virus definitions before it even made it to desktop:) it couldn't recognize my 19"lcd lol but I had 17crt and plugged that in and it was fine.
puppy would be better as a base, if we could figure the auto-connect stuff out.
ttuuxxx

sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 5089 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

All Puppy needs is a script that does what clicking the eth0 button does.
Then it needs to do what clicking the DHCP button does, and it`s done...

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 27 Jan 2010, 14:31 Post subject:

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope

Stardust is one of the few that just works with my Acer D250 wireless but it failed doing wired LAN.

But that could be temporarily. Some linux usb does shut down the LAN card and one have to reactivate it through Windows win7 to get it going.

How could one do that from Stardust or any other puppy?

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 29 Jan 2010, 07:19 Post subject:

I had a usb2lan stick running on 2.14X, just plug it in first then bootup and run the network manager.
It won't work if you already booted and then plugged it in, so remember plug in then bootup.
ttuuxxx

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10548 Location: SwedenEurope

I used this search and failed to find a thread for it.

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=015995643981050743583%3Aabvzbibgzxo&q=usb2lan&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A0

Could one not build that into every puppy?
And to take up a whole mem stick for just one function?

Could you link to it?