Wary Puppy 5.0-final feedback

[shinobar]

It looks like the root cause of the problem is the "mount -t cifs" procedure. If I mount the share using YASSM and include the option noserverino, then geany works with a Windows share.

Great!
I add the 'noserverino' mount option at '/usr/local/apps/pnethood/func_mount' line 35,37. then geany works.
Confirmed both on LupQ-511 and Wary-500j02.

[drblock2]

Thanks rcrsn51 and Shinobar!

I added noserverino, eh, voilà. It took me some tinkering to figure out just where to add it, so I am posting the altered code of the line:

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mount-FULL -t cifs  "//${IP}/${SHARE}" "${MOUNTPOINT}" -o  "${SERVERNETBIOSNAME}$USER_PASS,iocharset=utf8",noserverino 2>>${TMP}log 

Pnethood finds machines on my LAN that are running Windows, but not puppy. I have been using ftp for file transfer. I have just downloaded YASSM will continue the discussion on that thread.

[gerry]

Just upgraded Wary 104 to 500. EDIT: Booted using Wary-500 cd, pressed "Enter" whenever prompted.

Somewhere in the process, I got a screen that said (more or less):

Either uninstall Puppy2 files, or install the following deps: Click "Install" icon when after Puppy is running and has internet access.

{long list}

Well I copied the list onto a piece of paper as instructed, and after reboot clicked on install, and started the package manager, but so far as I can see, it knows nothing about all these dependencies.

Questions:

What Puppy2 files? How would I delete them? Would I miss them if I did?

If I do need these deps, how do I find them?

Could it be the pets that I have installed? The "Check dependencies of installed packages" shows nothing missing.

gerry

[Béèm]

LOL.. skiboardsonline.com still scrolls awful.
Everything else looks great so far.

Still not convinced that FireFox is bad and that SeaMonkey is ok?

[James C]

Just upgraded Wary 104 to 500. EDIT: Booted using Wary-500 cd, pressed "Enter" whenever prompted.

Somewhere in the process, I got a screen that said (more or less):

Either uninstall Puppy2 files, or install the following deps: Click "Install" icon when after Puppy is running and has internet access.

{long list}

Well I copied the list onto a piece of paper as instructed, and after reboot clicked on install, and started the package manager, but so far as I can see, it knows nothing about all these dependencies.

Questions:

What Puppy2 files? How would I delete them? Would I miss them if I did?

If I do need these deps, how do I find them?

Could it be the pets that I have installed? The "Check dependencies of installed packages" shows nothing missing.

gerry

Guess you did a full install. The message also was appearing in full installs of Lucid..... see here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 429#460429

AFAIK it's just a little glitch in the installer and the message can be ignored.Believe it's something to do with the numbering of the releases....HTH.

[gerry]

@James C- no I'm running live cd. But I am ignoring it anyway, 'cos it hasn't caused a problem yet.

gerry

[Frank Cox]

Installed Wary,frugal, on my M275 Gateway TabletPC and the first problem was the brightness control was inoperable. It is stuck on low.

The other is the wireless card, an Intel 2200BG that uses the ipw2200 driver is not working. I had the identical problem with a Fujitsu T4010 TabletPc with 431 and the fix was to use one of the special puppies with an older kernel.

Any ideas how to work around this one?

[amc]

(Sorry about the dual posting, I meant to add to this thread, which I think is more appropriate)

Hi all:

I discovered Puppy Linux this month and have been having a great time installing and using it on a variety of old laptops that I have. However, I think that I have run into a problem with Wary 5.0 wifi networking, that does not exist in Lucid Puppy 5.11 or 5.15.

Basically what is happening is that during wifi setup the computer cannot complete the "associating" step and times out. I've tried this on two different computers, using both pcmia card and a usb dongle. All these machines as well as the wifi cards connect with my wifi router and work fine with Lucid Puppy.

The reason that I am trying Wary 5.0 is to find out if it runs better on an old Sony Vaio laptop that I have. Lucid Puppy works, but is slow, especially when installing packages. My wifi network uses both a hidden ESSID and WPA-TKIP encryption, both/either of which may be contributing to the problem.

For completeness, here's the equipment specs:
Sony Vaio PCG-Z505RX 192 MB RAM 8 Gig ATA Drive
Belkin F5D8011 Wireless Notebook Card
running ath9k driver which identifies the card as "Atheros Comminucations AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)".

Note that I have also tried Wary 5.0 on a newer laptop with built-in wifi, and this also has the same trouble associating with my network. This is a completely different computer and network card, which also works fine with Lucid Puppy, so I think that it is a Wary problem, not a hardware/driver problem.

Any ideas on how to solve this?
Thanks,
Aaron

[rjbrewer]

Installed Wary,frugal, on my M275 Gateway TabletPC and the first problem was the brightness control was inoperable. It is stuck on low.

The other is the wireless card, an Intel 2200BG that uses the ipw2200 driver is not working. I had the identical problem with a Fujitsu T4010 TabletPc with 431 and the fix was to use one of the special puppies with an older kernel.

Any ideas how to work around this one?

Strange;

My 700m Dell has almost identical specs, including ipw2200bg; and
I haven't had any problems making wpa connection with any Wary
versions.

[Béèm]

The other is the wireless card, an Intel 2200BG that uses the ipw2200 driver is not working.

This isn't a very helpful description to go on for advising.
Please give more detail.

[norsiwel]

I just did a frugal install to my gecko surfboard and everything works, sound, good video with dri support, I don't have the built in wireless but tethering to my gprs phone works well. This is great for surfboard owners.

[Frank Cox]

The other is the wireless card, an Intel 2200BG that uses the ipw2200 driver is not working.

This isn't a very helpful description to go on for advising.
Please give more detail.

I am not very experienced with wireless so I am not sure what exactly you need to know.

I went into the router and disabled the security and it connected. The password I was using was correct as I checked it in Lubuntu to be sure so i

Now I will try resting the security and see what happens.

Any ideas on how to get the back light to work?

[DaveS]

LOL.. skiboardsonline.com still scrolls awful.
Everything else looks great so far.

Still not convinced that FireFox is bad and that SeaMonkey is ok?

To the Dark Side I have gone.... Opera! Closed source... Heretic...
Beware the Inquisition

[Béèm]

LOL.. skiboardsonline.com still scrolls awful.
Everything else looks great so far.

Still not convinced that FireFox is bad and that SeaMonkey is ok?

To the Dark Side I have gone.... Opera! Closed source... Heretic...
Beware the Inquisition

You know how people end up being caught by the inquisition.

[rjbrewer]

The other is the wireless card, an Intel 2200BG that uses the ipw2200 driver is not working.

This isn't a very helpful description to go on for advising.
Please give more detail.

I am not very experienced with wireless so I am not sure what exactly you need to know.

I went into the router and disabled the security and it connected. The password I was using was correct as I checked it in Lubuntu to be sure so i

Now I will try resting the security and see what happens.

Any ideas on how to get the back light to work?

Back light to work?
Your screen is black?

With the 855gme processor I choose the i810 option during
xorg setup.

[Frank Cox]

Anyway I reset the router and set the security to WEP and re- created
the pass-phrase. No luck.

Reset the router again to disabled-no security and it connected fine. Cab the driver have anything to do with this problem? Is there something I could be doing? i doubled checked the paraphrase in Lubuntu again just to be sure and it worked fine.

Any ideas where to go for a manual to help me fix the back light problem?

Appreciate your help.

[rcrsn51]

If you are using WEP and a pass-phrase instead of digits, you have to enter it as s:pass-phrase.

[Billtoo]

I did a frugal install to a newer Gateway desktop pc with an onboard
ati hd3200 graphics chip.
I installed the devx,kernel source sfs,and ati driver.
Wary 5.0 is working well on this pc.

[rjbrewer]

Anyway I reset the router and set the security to WEP and re- created
the pass-phrase. No luck.

Reset the router again to disabled-no security and it connected fine. Cab the driver have anything to do with this problem? Is there something I could be doing? i doubled checked the paraphrase in Lubuntu again just to be sure and it worked fine.

Any ideas where to go for a manual to help me fix the back light problem?

Appreciate your help.

M275 users manual;

http://support.gateway.com/s/Manuals/Mobile/8510817.pdf

[pskin]

Wary 5.0 is basically working 99% on edubook.

Some issues are:
1) There is no rt3070sta wireless driver for edubooks that came with
adapters that need that. Instead the rtx2800 module (which does not seem to work) is loaded. If this is blacklisted, then a version of rt2870 is loaded on next boot, which also seemed not to work. However, one can blacklist both modules and compile the rt3070sta module from the source downloaded from ralink. Then wireless works.

2)The flash plugin crashes SeaMonkey (e.g. youtube.) This was noted of
wary 093 on Barry's blog. I tried simply to
install a different version of the plugin (I tried version 10.1r102,
the latest available from the Adobe site) and it has not crashed so far.

On Barry's blog, he also mentioned that some things such as ffmpeg
and libvpx may need to be recompiled. Certainly, ffmpeg
gives an Illegal Instruction error at the moment.

-pskin