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#21 Post by AndresC2 »

:D Hi Fred

thank you!

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#22 Post by fredx181 »

For who is interested, here's a fork of BionicDog: "MBPUP" by mbinnun:
https://github.com/mbinnun/MBPUP#mbpup- ... buntu-1804
(mbinnun informed me kindly about it through e-mail)
It includes a full LXDE Desktop (like Lubuntu) and more applications, so resulting in a larger ISO size.

Fred

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#23 Post by ally »

MBPUP mirrored here:

http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_MBPUP

could somebody post a screen shot, I've borrowed a Lubuntu one for now

:)

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#24 Post by fredx181 »

ally wrote:MBPUP mirrored here:

http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_MBPUP

could somebody post a screen shot, I've borrowed a Lubuntu one for now

:)
Hi ally, attached pic :)
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#25 Post by ally »

sorted!

:)

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#26 Post by AndresC2 »

:D Hi Fred!

I send you a PM.

thanks.

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#27 Post by watchdog »

Thanks Fred! Tested StretchDog and BionicDog with satisfaction for all my basic needs. I was not able to set levels of the audio mixer in Bionic via alsamixer: how to set mic source? I installed retrovol to do this and it somehow worked.

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#28 Post by fredx181 »

watchdog wrote:Thanks Fred! Tested StretchDog and BionicDog with satisfaction for all my basic needs. I was not able to set levels of the audio mixer in Bionic via alsamixer: how to set mic source? I installed retrovol to do this and it somehow worked.
Hello watchdog, thanks for the feedback !
Good you solved by installing retrovol, anyway, how to do with alsamixer:
- Press F4 for "Capture"
- Select "Mic" with arrow buttons (< >)
- Enable by pressing SPACE key
See pic below.

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#29 Post by ITSMERSH »

Downloaded BionicDog and made a manual frugal install. Booted fine and played a while with it.

- won't recognize my usb gprs modem (appears as sr1 in file manager)
- after saving and doing a reboot, the sound was gone
- couldn't find a program to setup sound card (choose sound card in alsa mixer didn't change anything)

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#30 Post by fredx181 »

Hi ITSYOURSH :) , welcome back RSH !
- won't recognize my usb gprs modem (appears as sr1 in file manager)
I don't have knowledge about that, hopefully someone else can answer maybe ?
- after saving and doing a reboot, the sound was gone
- couldn't find a program to setup sound card (choose sound card in alsa mixer didn't change anything)
That's strange that the sound was gone, there's program from rcrsn51 in repo: sound-card-selector, it might help solving the problem (run after install from Menu > System)
Install with Synaptic or from terminal using apt-get:

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apt-get update # might be required
apt-get install sound-card-selector
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#31 Post by drunkjedi »

ITSMERSH wrote: - won't recognize my usb gprs modem (appears as sr1 in file manager)
Hi RSH,

I had a Huawei usb gprs modem (I think it was E1550, I am not sure though.
It would show as sr1.

Had to install usb-modeswitch from fatdog's package manager.

It changed it back to /dev/ttyUSB0.

Here's description of usb-modeswitch in Fatdog's package manager
usb-modeswitch 2.4.0 (GPRS/3D USB modem switcher)

USB ModeSwitch is a mode switching tool for controlling
multi-mode USB devices. Many USB devices (especially GPRS/3G
modems have their MS Windows drivers onboard. These devices,
when plugged in for the first time, will present a USB flash
storage contaniing Windows drivers. After installation these
Windows drivers will switch the mode and activate a new device
(the real modem interface). USB modeswitch enable similar mode
switch for Linux users.
http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch

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#32 Post by fredx181 »

Thanks drunkjedi,

To add..., usb-modeswitch package is also available from Debian/Ubuntu, description:
mode switching tool for controlling "flip flop" USB devices
Several new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard,
especially WAN dongles. When plugged in for the first time, they act
like a flash storage and start installing the driver from there. If
the driver is already installed, the storage device vanishes and
a new device, such as an USB modem, shows up. This is called the
"ZeroCD" feature.

On Debian, this is not needed, since the driver is included as a
Linux kernel module, such as "usbserial". However, the device still
shows up as "usb-storage" by default. usb-modeswitch solves that
issue by sending the command which actually performs the switching
of the device from "usb-storage" to "usbserial".

This package contains the binaries and the brother scripts.
Fred

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#33 Post by drunkjedi »

fredx181 wrote:Thanks drunkjedi
No worries friend.
I have been away for some time, I did test DD in it's initial stages.
Just downloaded bionicdog yesterday, looks good, will ask if need any help.
Thanks.

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#34 Post by ITSMERSH »

Thanks drunkjedi & fredx181.

I'd downloaded usb-modeswitch-2.5.2+repack0-2ubuntu1-beaver from bionic beaver repository using my tahr based puppy. Since this comes with different libs compared to bionic I downloaded all dependencies which resulted in these files:

libpipeline1_1.5.0-1_i386.deb
usb-modeswitch_2.5.2+repack0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
usb-modeswitch-data_20170806-2_all.deb
gcc-8-base_8-20180414-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
libc6_2.27-3ubuntu1_i386.deb
libgcc1_8-20180414-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
libudev1_237-3ubuntu10_i386.deb
libusb-1.0-0_1.0.21-2_i386.deb


Made a first test using upupbb 18.05 which was successful.

After installing these files:

libpipeline1_1.5.0-1_i386.deb
usb-modeswitch_2.5.2+repack0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
usb-modeswitch-data_20170806-2_all.deb


the gprs usb modem didn't appear anymore as sr1 on the desktop. Instead it appears as /dev/ttyUSB0 in rerwin's gprs-connect (luckily it was installed) and made me able to connect to the web immediately (after setting up the APN and choose phone number).

After installing above listed files into BionicDog I couldn't find anything to setup APN and phone number etc.

What would I need to do to connect to the web then?

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Getting Sound on a Toshiba Satellite L775d

#35 Post by mikeslr »

Hi fred & All,

Much to my pleasant surprise I was able to boot a USB-Key installed BionicDog 64-bit to a workable desktop on my wife's Toshiba Satellite L775d Laptop. With two exceptions everything worked OOTB.

The first exception was WIFI. My network was seen (which tells me that the proper firmware and drivers are present) but it uses WEP encryption. If someone can assure me –from actual experience-- that peasywifi will accept and use a WEP password, I'll make another stab at following its instructions.

My work-around was to install frisbee_1.2-20170928dd64_mod_amd64.deb which had either been built for StretchDog64, or I had stored it in a folder of debs useful to StretchDog64.

Other than wondering whether there was a specific version of frisbee for BionicDog64, that left only the absence of sound. I am certain that there must be drivers and firmware for BionicDog64*, as sound worked OOTB on the 32-bit upup BionicBeaver.

Could someone kindly provide instructions for determining what sound related devices are on the Toshiba, what drivers and firmware are need for them, and how to install those.

I could provide a report from PupSysInfo under BionicBeaver, but think it would be better if in the future I could find out this information in the absence of PupSysInfo.

Thanks in advance,

mikesLr

*Sound also fails on StretchDog64, but as I didn't try dpup-stretch on the Toshiba, I don't know whether there are debian drivers and firmware. Probably, but less certainly.

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#36 Post by AndresC2 »

:D Hi Fred!

thanks for your help

but udhcpc doesnt work , netplan doesnt work same network-manager

do you uses the same image

linux-image-4.15.0-20-generic?

missing firmware or something?

Can you give me please, your list of apps intalled I will want install in bionic-core maybe this help.

thanks.

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Re: Getting Sound on a Toshiba Satellite L775d

#37 Post by rcrsn51 »

mikeslr wrote:If someone can assure me –from actual experience-- that peasywifi will accept and use a WEP password,
Yes it does.

As you know, there are variations of the WEP key. For example, 5 alpha-numeric characters WITH quotes or 10 hex digits WITHOUT quotes.

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#38 Post by watchdog »

ITSMERSH wrote: After installing above listed files into BionicDog I couldn't find anything to setup APN and phone number etc.

What would I need to do to connect to the web then?
I would try to use the installed wvdial. Here an example of wvdial.conf:

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[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet.wind"
Carrier Check = yes
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Baud = 460800
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
ISDN = 0
Phone = *99***1#
Password = ''
Username = ''
Stupid Mode = 0
Change internet.wind with your APN and change phone number.

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#39 Post by rcrsn51 »

fredx181 wrote:
- after saving and doing a reboot, the sound was gone
- couldn't find a program to setup sound card (choose sound card in alsa mixer didn't change anything)
That's strange that the sound was gone, there's program from rcrsn51 in repo: sound-card-selector, it might help solving the problem (run after install from Menu > System)
Install with Synaptic or from terminal using apt-get:

Code: Select all

apt-get update # might be required
apt-get install sound-card-selector
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Re: Getting Sound on a Toshiba Satellite L775d

#40 Post by rcrsn51 »

rcrsn51 wrote:
mikeslr wrote:If someone can assure me –from actual experience-- that peasywifi will accept and use a WEP password,
Yes it does.

As you know, there are variations of the WEP key. For example, 5 alpha-numeric characters WITH quotes or 10 hex digits WITHOUT quotes.

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