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Tried ice wm, works otherwise but same thing, but I also get this flash message;

Unable to extract the file "%f".
Please ensure that "/root/.themes" is writable and that the file is a valid Openbox theme archive.
The following errors were reported:
tar: %f : Cannot open : No such file or directory
tar : Error is not recoverable : exiting now
tar : Child returned status 2
tar : */openbox-3 : Not found in archive
tar : Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Also, going back to previous Openbox issue, I don't know if this is relevant; if I try to choose Openbox by right clicking Desktop then scrolling down to Openbox Config, that's when it hangs...

but if I right click Desktop and scroll all the way down to Other then select Configure Openbox, it works normally....

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No go Removed rabbit, still the same error in terminal.

[Tman]

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Ooops! (Sorry)

Is this a good time to tell you I can't get Pwidgets to work either... or shall I not mention it??

(I don't use it, btw, I'm just saying).

[Tman]

[greengeek]

[Tman]

Okay, I got pwidgets working again. I don't know how, but fixwidgets got deleted.

Greengeek, I have downloaded the source for the latest Broadcom STA driver.
I will take a crack at building it this weekend.

EDIT: I just found that peebee was working on Broadcom driver pets. I will ask him
advice on building it.

[Tman]

It looks like Peebee figured out the right steps necessary to get broadcom wl drivers working properly without conflicting with the opensource b43 drivers. I spent much of yesterday trying to modify Iguleder's bldpkg system which is a fantastic system for compiling apps. I'm trying to alter it so that even noobs can easily compile with. It's not quite ready for me to distribute yet, but hopefully soon. So far I've had partial success and managed to compile a lot of apps yesterday with it..some of which are going to be added to the next beta release.
http://www.smokey01.com/Tman/apps/Wary5-apps/

[Tman]

Solidpup511B-Lite-beta-2.0.iso is currently being uploaded.
It will be ready for download in about 25 minutes from now.
There is also a list of changes that I've placed in the same folder.

Quite a few upgrades from Beta1, but it is smaller.

Greengeek, I don't think your wireless is detected automatically OOTB yet,
but try loading it manually.

Greengeek, can you also try the attatched pet, to see if your wifi gets detected?

[greengeek]

Nice! I'm posting from Dillo on SPLiteB2 now. I didn't need to load the driver manually - the dialogs at the start gave me the choice of allowing wl to be "added to the list", which I accepted, and then straight online. No drama at all.

Haven't tried Rerwins pet yet - just running as is from the live CD and seems good so far. Fresh and clean. I like it.

[Tman]

[greengeek]

[Tman]

greengeek,

It is great that you got it working on your system. Peebee is still having a few problems,
although less this time. He also found a solution for his wifi setup, so I hope everything will be working for the both of you in the next release.

I did find a bug ... the resize personal storage file is not working; sorry folks, it will be fixed in the next version. For now, there is a link to a resize_personal_storage_legacy pet in the first post that you can use. That pet runs does not overwrite the default one, and will be found in the "Utility" menu after it is installed, rather than the "Setup" menu.

[Tman]

beta2.2 is now out. It contains various bug fixes and rerwin's new delta-3f patch for broadcom wifi conflicts.
... not anything new in terms of more apps.

Greengeek, when you have time to try this out, please let me know if your wifi is still okay on this one.
Much appreciation goes to Peebee for helping me test the last several releases to get this broadcom driver issue sorted out.
Thanks too to Rerwin and Pemasu for their advice on my questions regarding wifi firmware.

[greengeek]