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#121 Post by darkcity »

added an ArchPup page on wiki 8)
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Archpup

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#122 Post by T_Hobbit »

Testing .2

Pwireless still not connecting to my wlan... It find my wpa wlan but after press connect, nothing happens. Can some one share a wpa_config file?

But then again... savefile also don't work... during boot, after found savefile gives kernel panic...
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#123 Post by mavrothal »

T_Hobbit wrote: But then again... savefile also don't work... during boot, after found savefile gives kernel panic...
Is your save file in a usb?
If not in usb, in which disk and partition is it at?
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#124 Post by greengeek »

Keef wrote:Up and running with wifi now. Had to edit the sfs though and add b43 firmware, and a script to get it all running - pwireless2 is not showing anything for me. I cheated and put an already configured wpa_supplicant.conf into etc/.
How do you "add b43 firmware"? please. And any chance of posting your wpa_supplicant? I'm still struggling. cheers.

simargl

#125 Post by simargl »

darkcity: Thanks, good job It looks nice. :D
I've just discovered that before you can use packer it is necessary to run this command:

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update-ca-certificates
so I wanted to share that info here and will also update first page.

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#126 Post by T_Hobbit »

mavrothal wrote:
T_Hobbit wrote: But then again... savefile also don't work... during boot, after found savefile gives kernel panic...
Is your save file in a usb?
If not in usb, in which disk and partition is it at?
On an USB. Inside archpup folder. FAT filesystem.
Installed thru FlashPup install process from Slacko.
I tryed to move savepup to the USB root - no go.
I erased savepup and it boots fine... but still no wifi connection.

Do I need to have devx and kernel sfs on the USB stick?
Make no sense since sfs are only installed on boot after save file is make...
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#127 Post by stifiling »

greengeek wrote:
Keef wrote:Up and running with wifi now. Had to edit the sfs though and add b43 firmware, and a script to get it all running - pwireless2 is not showing anything for me. I cheated and put an already configured wpa_supplicant.conf into etc/.
How do you "add b43 firmware"? please. And any chance of posting your wpa_supplicant? I'm still struggling. cheers.
i copied and pasted /lib/firmware from out of the saluki sfs and added 'modprobe b43 &' to the top of /root/.xinitrc

i still couldn't get pwireless2 working after that so installed wicd using pacman. it took a nice meat of mbs installing it but i don't mind giving the space, for the stability.

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#128 Post by mavrothal »

T_Hobbit wrote:
mavrothal wrote:
T_Hobbit wrote: But then again... savefile also don't work... during boot, after found savefile gives kernel panic...
Is your save file in a usb?
If not in usb, in which disk and partition is it at?
On an USB.
I had this issue too.
Looks like that ArchPup can not boot from USB (yet).
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#129 Post by T_Hobbit »

Seems so... Posting from a running Archpup installed on an internal HD at my father in law desktop computer with savefile OK.
Checked the size of both savefiles: on this desktop it has 262.1 MB, on my USB only 220MB.
Maybe the savefile script didn't finish saving all savefile to the USB? Too slow compared to an HD?

Just need to find out how to solve the wifi problem... maybe it's related?
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#130 Post by simargl »

I just run some tests with booting from usb device. USB is formated as FAT32 and I used
unetbootin in windows to create bootable Live USB. It works if you don't have savefile
or if savefile is on hard disk partition. But if you create savefile on USB after reboot it gives
kernel panic !? :roll: :? I don't know why would empty savefile make that problem.

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#131 Post by T_Hobbit »

Precisely what happen to me!
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#132 Post by Scooby »

I love it, thank you :shock:

a couple of issues

1.

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setxkbmap se
does not correctly display swedish special characters otherwise fine

2. Cannot install torbrowser bundle from aur. Says "stdin not in gzip format"

2.5 Cannot install tixati from aur. says "cannot find strip binary for object file stripping"

3. How do you run a program as spot? Tried to run tor browser bundle but it complained at being run from the root user account. (downloaded tar ball with browser)

4. Have sometimes problems with screen tearing when palying video

Internet connection works well although I manually had to call dhcpcd. Pacman works fine. ffmpeg,mplayer2, smplayer works with a little tweaking (removing some jpeg stuff)

When I have time I will try to install bumblebee from Aur

Again very good work. Maybe now I can scrap my windows?

oui

Re: misc

#133 Post by oui »

Hi

a/ Key maps:

true:
Scooby wrote:1.

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setxkbmap se
does not correctly display swedish special characters otherwise fine
the keymaps seem don't to be from puppy and we have now different results and in this details, they are not better, for me in all cases: I write with the us_intl from Puppy and have a great choice of char including some chars for slave and north European languages (and all chars for west European languages completely correct).

in ArchPup, it is different, the same map code produces that what in Debian or Slax etc. would be named us_accentos, a very reduced choice of chars only for south European languages...

b/ Browser comportment

I did try divers browsers and no one will proceed to connect with

localhost:631 (tragic... Cups!)
localhost:8000 (only didiwiki but it would be better to be able!)

what experience did have other users with this important detail concerning directly the ability or not to print in ArchPup?

Kind regards

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#134 Post by Keef »

My savefile is now loading 8)

greengeek

Use a Puppy that your wifi is working on.
Look in lib/firmware and copy the folder corresponding to your driver (in my case 'b43')
Copy it to lib/firmware in Archpup - if 'firmware' doesn't exist, then create it.
In Archpup you will also probably have to create a file called 'firmware.dep.3.8.6' in etc/modules/
This needs to refer to your module, and in my case the line needed is just 'b43:b43.ko'
(I can't profess to understand this fully, I've arrived at it by trial and error, mainly the latter...)

wpa_supplicant.conf is specific to your own connection (contains your SSID and password etc) so again, copy a working one from somewhere else. It is in etc/.

I then run the following script, based on info from
How to configure wifi from the commandline

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#!/bin/sh
# 
dhcpcd -k wlan0
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up

# first remove stale wpa_supplicant file if it exists
 if [ -e /var/run/wpa_supplicant/* ]; 
 then rm /var/run/wpa_supplicant/*; 
 fi
 
wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -q -B

sleep 30      # 30 for testing - try lower if successful, higher if not.

## first remove stale existing dhcpcd files if exist

if [ -e /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-* ]; then rm /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-*; fi

dhcpcd -t 30 -h archpup -d wlan0

# A result here should mean success...
echo `ifconfig wlan0 | grep '\<inet\>' | sed -n '1p' | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f3 | cut -d ':' -f2`



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#135 Post by James C »

Still just experimenting....

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#136 Post by stifiling »

i'm having an issue with the pup-volume-monitor. it's not refreshing. if i plug in a usb stick...i have to logout/restart x for it to appear in thunar. same procedure to make it go away after unplugging it.

simargl

#137 Post by simargl »

Running as user spot seems impossible unless you do this changes:
open file /etc/passwd and change home folder for spot from /root/spot to /opt/spot
Then make his home folder and set ownership:
mkdir /opt/spot
chown spot:users /opt/spot
su spot
Now firefox will run as user spot, but will look ugly, and no way to change theme
with lxappearance.

@Scooby: To fix "cannot find strip binary for object file stripping" load development sfs.
How to make TOR Browser Bundle work as root
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 484#669484

oui

Printing under Archpup

#138 Post by oui »

Hi
oui wrote:b/ Browser comportment

I did try divers browsers and no one will proceed to connect with

localhost:631 (tragic... Cups!)
localhost:8000 (only didiwiki but it would be better to be able!)

what experience did have other users with this important detail concerning directly the ability or not to print in ArchPup?
did someone try to start Cups in his browser

alternative does someone know a(n other) way to print out in Archpup?

New Question:

c/ Texts of menu

Please step by step information what is to do to change the menu so that all dynamic functions stay preserved

(objective: change the language of course...)?

Is unicode possible (Serbian :wink: for example )?

Kind regards

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32 bits

#139 Post by Scooby »

Archpup is a 32 bit system huh?

I tried to run it on my old IBM t42 but during boot it says
"your cpu doesnt support pae"

You cannot run archpup on older comps?

Thanks simargl will try recommended solutions when on
archpup, now on windows

simargl

#140 Post by simargl »

For oui, How to make ArchPup speak french :lol:

Download locale.alias.gz, remove false gz extension and copy this file to /usr/share/locale
then open /etc/locale.gen, uncomment
fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_FR ISO-8859-1
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
then in terminal run locale-gen.
Open /etc/profile and add this

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export LANG="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_TELEPHONE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_MEASUREMENT="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_IDENTIFICATION="fr_FR.UTF-8"
export LC_ALL="fr_FR.UTF-8"
See screenshot below.. :D
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