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I would suspect that newer kernels would have better broadcom support, but I don't know that for sure.

# ls -R
brcmfmac  brcmsmac  brcmutil
./brcmfmac:
brcmfmac.ko
./brcmsmac:
brcmsmac.ko
./brcmutil:
brcmutil.ko

pemasu wrote:

I would suspect that newer kernels would have better broadcom support, but I don't know that for sure.

/lib/modules/all-firmware/brcm
/lib/modules/3.1.0/kernel/drivers/staging/brcm80211

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02484
It was tempestuous which brought this to our attention and then it was related to the Barry.

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211

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# ls -R
brcmfmac  brcmsmac  brcmutil
./brcmfmac:
brcmfmac.ko
./brcmsmac:
brcmsmac.ko
./brcmutil:
brcmutil.ko

These drivers have mostly replaced the need of wl driver.

The problem. 3.X kernels dont autoload b43 driver in Puppies. Barry Kauler has not found solution so far.....

How long ago did floppy drives become obsolete

Sage wrote:Shame to drop it completely in Puppy as it's such a good repair tool as a live-CD. But no objections to loading it from PPM, esp. as it will likely remain in future kernels, just like ISA support. {We/I also discussed the 'last' ISA slot, esp. w.r.t. superior sound cards.}

Tman wrote:

scsijon wrote:...
ps Tman ff8 causes problems with Thunderbird/Eudora If directly installed, not via an ff7>ff8 upgrade.

What kind of issues, specifically?

in the ppm for those few people that need it

scsijon wrote: also jemimah, may be worth having a look at fish, it's topic is on puppylinux.info.

BHINTZ wrote:on my machine, midori closes when I close a tab.

Is this typical or have I set something up incorrectly.

bob

jemimah wrote:I think booting from usb and then suspending is going to be a problem depending on whether the BIOS of your machines leave power on to the usb port during suspend or not. I've had machines where the built in usb cardreader works great after suspend, but the usb ports do not.

mavrothal wrote:Only that Barry is using unionfs with its 3.x.x kernels...

pemasu wrote:Barrys latest busybox-1.19.3-w5c.pet which is in Racy, I think, has busybox with powertop included. Compiled in.

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# cd /bin
# for x in `./busybox |grep ,|grep -v Â` ;do echo ${x%,}; done | grep powertop
powertop

Does not work for me...but just decided to post if others want to test.

ttuuxxx wrote:

jemimah wrote:Here's a preliminary list of changes I would like to make.

Remove (redundant, unnecessary, not user-friendly, or better in repo):


Replace:
urxvt - lxterminal <-- does lxterminal fully replace urxvt? When I tried other terminals that weren't rxvt based, we lost certain functions, If I remember correctly the puppy package manager stopped working.
epdfview - evince <--- this is a great tradeoff, and bring better functions, like opens comic books, but it does add some weight like gconf, and if were adding gconf, then why use galculator? Gcalctooll is way better and also makes use of gconf , its really linux's best somewhat small calculator.
cgtkcalc - galculator

ttuuxxx

 gcalctool 
GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.
** (gcalctool:9542): DEBUG: Downloading rates from the IMF...
** (gcalctool:9542): DEBUG: Downloading rates from the ECB...

** (gcalctool:9542): WARNING **: Couldn't download IMF currency rate file: Operation not supported

** (gcalctool:9542): WARNING **: Couldn't download ECB currency rate file: Operation not supported

** (gcalctool:9542): WARNING **: Failed to read exchange rates: Failed to open file '/root/.cache/gcalctool/rms_five.xls': No such file or directory

** (gcalctool:9542): WARNING **: Cannot use ECB rates as don't have EUR rate
** (gcalctool:9542): DEBUG: Rates loaded
** (gcalctool:9542): DEBUG: Downloading rates from the IMF...
** (gcalctool:9542): DEBUG: Downloading rates from the ECB...
Segmentation fault