(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Rerwin,
Thanks for the link to the Frisbee .pets. They are installed and I'll monitor the how my wifi connection behaves, plus I will keep an eye on that thread.
B.

Is possible to connect hotspot with wpa2 enterprise by frisbee? How to enter username and password?

recobayu,
Thanks for your inquiry. I do not have a wpa2 system to test this with, so say this based on how frisbee appears to work.

Use the "Manage Saved Networks" button to go to a list of saved network profiles, select one, make all the necessary changes and then click "Save Profile". Exit the "Manage.." window (if necessary), select the network in the main frisbee window and click "Connect".

Note that you need to be quick to select and click, because the list gets refreshed every 15 seconds (I think), losing the selection indication. Please let us know how it works out.
Richard

Hi everyone. I have downloaded Precise Puppy 5.5. and found that I cannot retrieve my email from Google mail as I have done until now using Sylpheed in Slacko 5.5 .
I have checked all settings off course, but no luck. Any ideas whats wrong ?
Thanks for your help.

TIW wrote:Hi everyone. I have downloaded Precise Puppy 5.5. and found that I cannot retrieve my email from Google mail as I have done until now using Sylpheed in Slacko 5.5 .
I have checked all settings off course, but no luck. Any ideas whats wrong ?
Thanks for your help.

Try this: go to your /root directory of slacko working install. Press Ctrl-H to show hidden files. Copy a backup of Mail and .sylpheed-2.0 directories. Put this directories in precise install in /root directory (delete first the existing Mail and .sylpheed-2.0 directories). If you can download the mail in slacko you will able to do this in precise, too.

Hi watchdog,
I have done as you suggested and yes Sylpheed works great. However trying to retrieve my email with precise 5.5- sea monkey is still a failure. What can I do about that ? Thanks for your help.

TIW wrote:Hi watchdog,
However trying to retrieve my email with precise 5.5- seamonkey is still a failure. What can I do about that ? Thanks for your help.

Surely you have wrong settings about gmail. You must get the right settings about ssl for example. If seamonkey works downloading email from google in slacko you can follow the same backup procedure copying /root/.mozilla directory in slacko install to the precise install.

Is there a plus-value using Puppy ? I dont understand, and packages request so many dependancies that the poor Puppy falls down under the weight !
Puppy must stay itself !

(I am on an usb 2 GO Key with live Ubuntu 12.04 installed )

pelo

if you're finding the newer pups a bit too modern, these might be more your 'cup of tea' http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65544

I keep getting this error when starting anything to do with Mozilla,ie.Seamonkey,Seamonkey mail,Thunderbird or Firefox 20.
Tried a reinstall but the same fault reappeared.
I presume it has something to do with the Mozilla applications I have added?

Update on my above post.

Just to clarify the situation.
It was a specific Iron browser.pet that I installed which caused the error messages in my above post.
I have since installed an older version of Iron,error message free and all is working fine so far.

Brown Mouse,

Was this the iron .pet from the requests thread by any chance? If so it was packaged for Slacko with the libgconf2 included which it needs in Slacko 5.5. For Precise and most other Puppies it needs to be packaged without that lib as it is already in the distro and we don't want to overwrite it with a wrong version.

I have been doing a bit of testing of that version 25 of iron in various Puppies and it seems OK if packaged accordingly. There is a version 26 out now for Windows so a version 26 for Linux should be out soon I guess.

OscarTalks wrote:Brown Mouse,

Was this the iron .pet from the requests thread by any chance?

OscarTalks

Yes,it was.
I'm now using a Lucid Iron version 23 and it works ok.

Differently from Slacko 5.5, Glade on Precise 5.5 needs libgtk-3.so.0 and libgdk-3.so.0.
Could someone fix them in next version of devx (or right into the system, if needed for other purposes)?

On Precise 5.5: Thank you in advance.

I posted this under the " Broadcom-STA "wl" wifi drivers - repository of latest" forum but as there's been no reply after 36 hours, I hope it's OK to copy it here, as I'm so keen to upgrade my Puppy.




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OK this seems as good a place as any to ask for help.

My broadcom driver is :

10:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01

2.6.33.2 SMP mod_unload modversions 486

I'm using lupu_525 on a full hard disk install.
Have been doing so for a while wtth no problems, when I set it up I installed the broadcom-5.10.27.14-k2.6.25.16.pet as I did with all previous puppies and all was fine.

Today I tried running precise 5.5 on a live CD and the weird thing is that it
sees my neighbours' wi-fi networks but not my own! No clue atall.
Some neighbours are using WPA2, just like me.

When I go back to my full install, everything is fine again.

Can anyone suggest why this might be and what I need to install/uninstall?


EDIT: I scanned this thread and installed the closest pet I could find (Precise 5.2 version) but I get an error message "incorrect kernel for this data".

redandwhitestripes wrote: Today I tried running precise 5.5 on a live CD and the weird thing is that it
sees my neighbours' wi-fi networks but not my own! No clue atall.
Some neighbours are using WPA2, just like me.

When I go back to my full install, everything is fine again.

Can anyone suggest why this might be and what I need to install/uninstall?

According to official thread at:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76495

precise5.5 should have everything needed about wl sta driver. If it doesn't work you can try another way. I have compiled a patched wl sta driver for precise 5.5. I attach the wl.ko module. In /root/Startup put a bash file with the following content after putting the attached wl.ko module in /root/my-documents.
wl.ko for precise 5.5 kernel 3.2.29:

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9iMb4U ... sp=sharing

Just reporting on Precise

my computer

amd phenom II black edition (with the 2 extra cores unlocked)
4 gig ddr3 ram
Nvidia graphics
ocz ssd drive
cd rom

Precise 5.5 fails to complete booting up...hanging on recognising optical device (the same issue I reported on Precise 5.4.3)....Lupu, Slacko, Fatdog64, Ubuntu and Mint 14...all work on this machine with no issues...

Hello,
Precise 5.5 fails to complete booting up...hanging on loading a good driver for my NVIDIA Geforce 210 graphic card (I get the same issue on Precise 5.4.3).

Cordialement.

Using Puppy precise 5.5

I have a 1920x1080 HDTV which I can connect to my PC through the VGA connector. If I boot with the TV then X starts at 1024x768. If I start xorgwizard then it says the TV can not be scanned and asks me to choose a resolution but then starts at 1024x768 whatever I choose.

The TV's manual says to set the resolution on the PC before connecting to the TV. I can set 1440x900 (the maximum on my old monitor) and that's usable on the TV but it's the wrong ratio. If I restart X then it reverts to 1024x768. If I manually change the resolution in xorg.conf to 1920x1080 (or anything else) then X starts at 1024x768 and sometimes changes the value in xorg.conf!

Is there a way to force X to start at 1920x1080? The TV's manual lists supported resolutions but for the frequency it gives only 60Hz sometimes followed by A or B. What would I set for the frequencies for X?

Thank you Watchdof.Sadly I tried your tips but with no joy. I have posted some more details over on the "config wireless from commandline" thread. Any further ideas most welcome.