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pemasu · #221 Post by **pemasu** » Sun 04 Jul 2010, 22:18

Fluppy 003 with Acer 3613WLMi. It just works.

Pgprs connection with globetrotter HSDPA modem connects fine. I can get to net during my holiday with my mother´s laptop. I have downloaded and installed needed apps. I like icewm as wm and I uploaded pa penguins themes also. Intel graphics driver works fine. With other newer kernels puppies dont.

The apps selection is fine. For movies I needed player which handles subtitles easily, so I installed mplayer and gnome-mplayer. VLC 0.86 should work also, so I have read.

I also tested Quirky 1.2 > acpi problem, with only boot parameter acpi=off, I was able to shutdown without hanging and then the modem was not detected. Also CPU temperature steadily rise up to seventy. I didnt bother use fixes, I stopped to use it. Same acpi ( so I think ) problem with lucid puppy luci 207. And intel driver problem also. Vesa was needed.

I have been most happy with Fluppy003. Keep up good work.

abushcrafter · #222 Post by **abushcrafter** » Tue 06 Jul 2010, 21:53

Does Fluppy currently work with the Intel Atom N450 chipset? Does it also fully work with the Wireless card in the Samsung N220?

jemimah · #223 Post by **jemimah** » Wed 07 Jul 2010, 00:42

N450: yes
As for the wireless card - I'm not sure what wireless card that is.

abushcrafter · #224 Post by **abushcrafter** » Wed 07 Jul 2010, 11:11

The Wireless card is the Realtek RTL8192E. The current methord to get it working is this one www2: Getting wireless working under ubuntu on Samsung N220 but is the a proper linux driver for it?

jemimah · #225 Post by **jemimah** » Wed 07 Jul 2010, 13:50

There's a driver for it but I hear it's unstable. I will grab the latest version and add it to the next Fluppy.

pemasu · #226 Post by **pemasu** » Wed 07 Jul 2010, 15:17

Could it be possible to include also atheros NIC driver to the next Fluppy . Acer uses it in timelinex series laptops.

Package included which I found from the net following ubuntu discussion threads. Original place I dont remember.

jemimah · #227 Post by **jemimah** » Wed 07 Jul 2010, 15:46

Are these cards not handled by the ath5k and ath9k drivers?

pemasu · #228 Post by **pemasu** » Wed 07 Jul 2010, 18:24

Atheros Wlan card is handled, but NIC card isnt. Normally I use wlan, but sometimes Ethernet connection is needed

Needed driver module seems to be atl1e.

EDIT: I forgot to say that existing atl1e does not recognize ethernet card.

jemimah · #229 Post by **jemimah** » Wed 07 Jul 2010, 20:26

pemasu wrote:Atheros Wlan card is handled, but NIC card isnt. Normally I use wlan, but sometimes Ethernet connection is needed

Needed driver module seems to be atl1e

That should work fine on anything newer than 2.6.31, I believe.

abushcrafter · #230 Post by **abushcrafter** » Wed 07 Jul 2010, 21:13

jemimah wrote:There's a driver for it but I hear it's unstable. I will grab the latest version and add it to the next Fluppy.

Thanks, However I can't test it as I don't have it. I am curently deciding on which netbook to get.

James C · #231 Post by **James C** » Thu 08 Jul 2010, 03:39

I did a frugal install of Fluppy 003 on one of my desktops (2.0 ghz Athlon XP/1 gb ddr ram/1.25gb swap) a couple of days ago and everything worked fine out of the box.

Just wanted to tell you, "Great job".

jemimah · #232 Post by **jemimah** » Thu 08 Jul 2010, 12:15

abushcrafter wrote:
jemimah wrote:There's a driver for it but I hear it's unstable. I will grab the latest version and add it to the next Fluppy.
Thanks, However I can't test it as I don't have it. I am curently deciding on which netbook to get.

Get an EeePC. Puppeee can boot in 10 or 15 seconds if properly configured, plus out of the box support for over/under clocking, fan control. Suspend/hibernate definitely works, and is totally stable. No driver issues. Puppeee also recognizes and optimizes performance on SSDs.

aarf · #233 Post by **aarf** » Thu 08 Jul 2010, 15:38

jemimah wrote: Get an EeePC. Puppeee can boot in 10 or 15 seconds if properly configured.

(COUGH) Oh? do tell. my puppeeerc7 needs little configuring.

jemimah · #234 Post by **jemimah** » Thu 08 Jul 2010, 16:52

http://puppeee.com/web/blog/how-to-boot-fast

Basically, you run the Zdrive cutter, then do a full install and switch to Xvesa, and a couple other tweaks.

Note, you probably shouldn't do a full install on an SSD unless you consider the drive disposable.

aarf · #235 Post by **aarf** » Thu 08 Jul 2010, 18:17

jemimah wrote:http://puppeee.com/web/blog/how-to-boot-fast

Basically, you run the Zdrive cutter, then do a full install and switch to Xvesa, and a couple other tweaks.

Note, you probably shouldn't do a full install on an SSD unless you consider the drive disposable.

ok jemimah i'll take your word for. my fast pace action packed split-second life will have to make do without those precious few seconds.

mikul101 · #236 Post by **mikul101** » Fri 09 Jul 2010, 13:29

Jemimah is there an eta for fluppy 4 as I have the same issue with the Samsung N130 which has the same Realtek RTL8192E wireless card?

jemimah · #237 Post by **jemimah** » Fri 09 Jul 2010, 15:49

Probably two or three weeks. I want to release Puppeee, then build Fluppy 004 from Puppeee 1.0.

I may be convinced to post that driver sooner though.

ecube · #238 Post by **ecube** » Wed 14 Jul 2010, 17:53

Jemimah,

I have been running luci-210 (USB-stick installation) on an old HP laptop without hard disk and battery. The other day I bought a Compaq C0101-101S0 mini-pc as a possible replacement. Alas, luci-210 wouldn't boot on the Compaq. Fortunately, thanks to your excellent work, fluppy-003 turned out to work flawlessly.

I have added a few patches which may be of interest to you.

1. The quirky version of PartView. It replaced the version fluppy is using. It shows mounted drives as default with "All Drives" as an option which can be slow on low-end hardware.

2. Network_tray-2.1. A small modification of the query version.

Code: Select all

 network_tray.c
void tray_icon_on_click(GtkStatusIcon *status_icon, gpointer user_data)
{
    system("pip");
}

Clicking on the Network_tray icon shows the IP-address or "No IP-address found". The icon didn't show up after I installed the pet. But by clicking on the empty space between the fremem-applet and the loadspeaker in the tray, you can test the function.

3. Pdict. A minor improvement.

4. SwissWatch. For users liking analog clocks.

Keep up the good work

ecube
Edit: 1. The icons added to network_tray pet. 2 pdict window adjusted

rjbrewer · #239 Post by **rjbrewer** » Fri 16 Jul 2010, 18:32

Another Fluppy surprise:

In order for us "full install" users to remaster it was necessary to
use "Dougals remaster script" on 4.xx and earlier Puppies.

This doesn't work with the new versions.

I tried it using Fluppys' Remaster Puppy and it worked perfectly!
I have a 168mb clone of my modified Fluppy on bootable cd......
the ultimate backup.

Edit; more surprises.

The remaster cd has this laptop intel wireless configured;
when I booted into a different laptop and pc the different
wireless cards configured automatically. Ready to browse.

jemimah · #240 Post by **jemimah** » Sun 18 Jul 2010, 17:31

ecube wrote:
I have added a few patches which may be of interest to you.

Thank you. I will check it out.

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