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gilloraymondo · Joined: 03 Dec 2011 Posts: 251

Hi,

I tried the 2 versions : 5.4.91 and 5.4.90 and I have the same thing than with all others precise versions :

The last thing I see on the screen is "loading kernel modules".
But looking very carefuly, it can (hardly) see that the precise desktop is there.

If I link my computer to another screen with a cable, it's works on the other screen......

Please excuse my bad english

Is there anything to do with this problem ?

On Internet, I have seen that everybody has this problem with this computer and this new kernel (not only with puppy, but also with ubuntu)
Friendly yours

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 13:54 Post_subject:

@jrb: Both YASSM and Pnethood are working fine for me. But I don't have any very long share names like you do.

This was testing 5490. Downloading 5491 now...

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1078

jrb · Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:15 Post_subject:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:31 Post_subject:

Yes, there is definitely something wrong with mount.cifs in 5491. I tried a bunch of alternate syntaxes, but nothing worked.

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 758 Location: UK

Manual frugal install of 5.5alpha1(5.4.91) with k3.8.rc7 to an ntfs partition and booting via grub4dos from an SDcard. Emachines (Acer) 732 laptop.

Boot and setup ok but - no wifi.

Guessing that the needed broadcom bits are not in new kernel.
Or maybe not activated?

Is there a pet or something I can try - or is it more complex than that?

Hardinfo report if it helps for your info.

JFYI - Puppy 5.4.90 works fine on the same laptop with identical setup.
(posting from 5.4.90 now)

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5463 Location: Finland

Ray MK. Yeah. Your broadcom BCM43225 would need wl or brcmsmac driver.

brcmsmac relies nowadays in bcma. So...when there is this:
CONFIG_BCMA is not set
and not this:
CONFIG_BCMA=m
CONFIG_BCMA_BLOCKIO=y
CONFIG_BCMA_HOST_PCI_POSSIBLE=y
CONFIG_BCMA_HOST_PCI=y

you wont see this selection as tickable option:
CONFIG_BRCMSMAC=m

and so the kernel wont have brcmsmac driver as module included.

So the 3.8 rc kernel does not have your needed brcmsmac driver and it has not the proprietary wl module either.

peebee · Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 16:24 Post_subject:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 17:38 Post_subject:

@peebee: I'm guessing that your shares do not require authentication?

Because some new kernels have a bug in how they parse the line of options.

@jrb: Try this:

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 619 Location: Staffordshire

I've reported before that having a CF card in PCMCIA adapter will stall booting on precise pups (the exception being Pemasu's Upup Precise 3.7.2). Removing the adapter will allow booting to continue, but the USB socket will no longer function. Previously I could insert the card after boot up and there would be no problem, but now the system will either freeze completely or disable the USB port again.
This is from /var/log/messages, and shows what is happening when I re-insert the card:

peebee · Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 18:15 Post_subject:

anikin · Joined: 10 May 2012 Posts: 450

Hi all,

I would like to apply elroy's tip, that starts the machine in powersave mode.

jrb · Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 18:57 Post_subject:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 19:42 Post_subject:

My mistake. My Win7 shares work fine in YASSM, as does my NAS box. the problem is specific to my Samba-TNG server.

Maybe it's an smb1 vs smb2 issue.

jrb · Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 19:57 Post_subject: