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piratesmack · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 100

Hmm... still no reply.
I'll post one more time just in case it was missed.

In Puppy 5.1, the hwclock is being interpreted as localtime even when you set the hwclock type to utc:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=443415#443415

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7019 Location: qld

piratesmack · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 100

kevin bowers · Joined: 20 Dec 2009 Posts: 143

rcrsn51, 01micko,

Booted my desktop to Quirky 1.2. Network and CUPS working fine although the ATI video doesn't agree with the Radeon driver. My little netbook running 5.1 still will not automatically find the shared printer.

All else seems well with the machines, Luci seems stable and happy in both boxes. I had a terrible time getting the wireless up with this last install but sheer stubborn cussed perseverance seems to have done it, it's now stable and persistent.

Can't say it enough: thanks again for the Herculean effort!

kevin bowers · Joined: 20 Dec 2009 Posts: 143

OOPS!

Apologies, guys, I forgot to set the host to share its printers!

Once I did that I have the automatic printer location and sharing between the Quirky host (CUPS 1.3.11) and the Luci netbook (5.1, CUPS 1.4.3).

A man my age should know better than to test computer configurations late at night, especially when he's not feeling well.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 21 Aug 2010, 12:53 Post subject:

But it still doesn't work when Lupu and CUPS 1.4.3 is the server?

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3016 Location: Oregon

[quote="kevin bowers"]rcrsn51, 01micko,

Booted my desktop to Quirky 1.2. Network and CUPS working fine although the ATI video doesn't agree with the Radeon driver. My little netbook running 5.1 still will not automatically find the shared printer.

/quote]

Did you set up the firewall when you installed Puppy on both PCs?
It will interfere with printer sharing.
Also, make sure you have the "Share this printer box checked as will as network sharing of the printer.

edoc · Posted: Sat 21 Aug 2010, 14:12 Post subject:

The Firewall setup appears in two places but neither offers an uninstall option.

Puppy Package Manager does not appear to recognize the Firewall and therefore does not offer an option to uninstall.

Perhaps this should be added to both of the pop-up menus for Firewall (in Setup and Internet) as well as Puppy Package Manager?

Or is the best way to uninstall to use the "Builtin Package Remover" -- which is reportedly in Menu-Utility of Quirky 1.2?

If so, is there a PET to add "Builtin Package Remover" to Lucid 5.1, please?

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 21 Aug 2010, 14:45 Post subject:

You don't need to uninstall the firewall program - you just want to disable it. One method is to open the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local and comment out the lines that start the firewall.

gortonc · Joined: 12 Jan 2010 Posts: 34 Location: Costa Rica

edoc,

"If so, is there a PET to add "Builtin Package Remover" to Lucid 5.1, please?"

Remove-buildins-1.1 for quirky, seems to work fine for me in 5.1. I have not yet tried to remaster as I am still tweaking my system. Will report on remaster as soon as I try it. Good luck

Chris

kevin bowers · Joined: 20 Dec 2009 Posts: 143

No, same host computer booted to 5.1 will not allow automatic printer finding and sharing. Nobody has a firewall going including the router. All settings seem to be in order unless there's one I missed, as far as I know I need to set the server to share printers and the printer itself to be shared. The manual installation seems to work just fine although I haven't tried printing from Open Office just yet. It was a pain to set up, though, I can't imagine a newbie handling it, it was a stretch of my abilities and I've been using Linux in one form or another for 10 years. I must say it's much more user-friendly now, largely of course due to the efforts of Barry Kauler and the Puppy people.
I wonder if we can find some common thing that differentiates those systems that will automatically share printers Luci51 to Luci51 and those that won't? My host is a 5-year-old Dell P4, Ralink wireless LAN, and my remote is a new Toshiba Celeron-base with Realtek 8187SE with NDISwrapper driver. Could that be the problem? The Linux driver immediately freezes this system on first access. Router is a Belkin G wireless.
The other major question is "is it worth the trouble?" How many other people are having this problem? If I'm the only one I have it solved for myself. If someone else has similar trouble, pipe up--the squeaky wheel gets the grease!

edoc · Posted: Sat 21 Aug 2010, 15:47 Post subject:

If you discover that it is something unique to your system you could get a Netgear 3500L wireless router -- it will allow you to network a printer or a HDD and it is open source friendly.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 21 Aug 2010, 15:58 Post subject: Re: Printer sharing

edoc · Posted: Sat 21 Aug 2010, 16:55 Post subject:

I just looked here and did not find it:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/pet_packages-quirky/

You are saying that when I do locate it I may load the PET and then run the remove-builtins app and that removing abiword will be complete and not harm my Lucid 5.1 Frugal install at all?

Other than maybe some default word processor link may be broken and I will need to change it to OpenOffice or Geany.

Or am I missing a step ... you referred to remastering ... is remove-builtins just one step to alter the distro and then one has to remaster *before* one is able to resume using Lucid 5.1 (or Quirky)?