puppy 398 on laptop dell inspiron 1526 bugs:
1)wireless doesn't work. Broadcom BCM 4311 (14e4:4311) wifi needs newer module.
Old deprecated module "bcm43xx" & "ieee80211..." could recognize and scan avalable signals,
but cannot connect WPA or OPEN mod.It should be replaced with"b43" & "mac80211" modules.
( on
http://linuxwireless.org/ main page:<b43 and b43legacy Broadcom drivers which replace the older bcm43xx driver. bcm43xx is now deprecated and will be removed in future kernel releases.>),newer module needs newer 4 version firmware too.
ndiswrapper: has problem too, when quering about version, so it is no alternative for using wifi.
# ndiswrapper -v
modinfo: could not find module ndiswrapper
module version is too old!
utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '0'
module details:
modinfo: could not find module ndiswrapper
You may need to upgrade driver and/or utils to latest versions available at
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
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2) video is ATI Radeon X1270. Xvesa works fine (doen't have 1280x800, resolution but works with 1024x768)
Xorgwizard for Xorg recognize ok the resolution, it offers 2 choiceis: 1280x800 with 16 & 24 colours, properly modify 'xorg.conf' with these resolutions, but when X starts the real resolution is 1024x768 i presume (reported by 'hardinfo')
regardless that xorg.conf says 1280x800)
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "vesa" #card0driver
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "ATI Radeon Xpress 1200 Series"
BusID "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubsection
EndSection
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3) audio controler is: Sigmatel STAC9228Codec.Alsa wizard says it founds these cards:
- hda_intel 00:14.2 class 0403: 1002:4383
- hda_intel 01:0.52 class 0403: 1002:7919
The module "snd_hda_intel" is loaded but sound doesn'working ! (in other distros like ubuntu the same module works)
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4) modem is Conexant HDA D330 MDC. it is softmodem wasn't recognized, although there is some driver on dell site:
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/Modems, & here:
http://linux.dell.com/files/ubuntu/modem-drivers/hsf,
maybe it should be included?
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5)-external monitor, video, and firewire, memory card slot was not tested yet
-Battery aplet is working ok.
-Even it is no paralell port in ilaptop the parport_pc, parport modules were loaded.
touch pad works ok, even in paralell with external usb mouse.The 'wheel' function on touch pad is simulated too (good point), I missed only the simulation of 'finger touch' equal 'left buton press' which works in ubuntu and win. Can it be someway activated too?
-laptop kebboard works ok in paralel with usb keybard, but I couldn't manage to setup altenative language keyboard (I tried to se to romanian ro, with no luck even the control key seems to be working , it turn on/off the led)
I don't remember well, but wasn't created an 'kbd' little aplet for menu bar in the past? It should be included in dingo!
- Cups printing: I have an Brother HL-1430, laser usb printer,for which the
www.linuxprinting.org says to use hl1250 ppd file, well I tried it in puppy dingo with the included hl1250 from menu, it comunicates and load the printer with data (printer led are flashing), but no paper no actual printing command comes out. In the past with older puppy I could use the printer but if I remember with an downloaded hl1250.ppd file, it was easy to install because the older "CUPS setup" had an option to load external PPD file not included in puppy.But in this "dingo CUPS setup" that option has dissapaired, so I don't know how to probe rapidly in an easy way with external downloaded PPD file! Why was that option disregarded?
-Omnivision/Creative laptop webcam OV2640 2.0 megpix (05a9:2640) wasn't recognized, it was no "uvcvideo" module from
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de included in dingo.
-CD/DVD read-write seems ok
-mounting NTFS file system (created win vista home premium 32) for reading is ok but writing to
NTFS was denied with error message: <Error creating '/mnt/sda2/NewFile': Permission denied>
-scanner wasn't tested because my HP scanner has no linux module developt.
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
evdev 10240 1
parport_pc 31716 0
lp 12616 0
parport 35528 2 parport_pc,lp
snd_mixer_oss 16896 0
ac 5252 0
battery 10116 0
usblp 14080 0
bcm43xx 431392 0
firmware_class 9600 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211softmac 29056 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 33864 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt 5632 1 ieee80211
sdhci 17548 0
mmc_block 8712 0
mmc_core 27284 2 sdhci,mmc_block
8139too 25088 0
mii 5888 1 8139too
snd_hda_intel 289308 0
snd_pcm 75656 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_timer 22020 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10120 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 9220 1 snd_hda_intel
snd 52068 5 snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,sn d_hwdep
soundcore 7520 1 snd
i2c_piix4 8716 0
i2c_core 22032 1 i2c_piix4
fuse 44052 0
unionfs 83732 1
nls_iso8859_1 4224 0
nls_cp437 5888 0
usbhid 24928 0
usb_storage 83264 0
ehci_hcd 31116 0
ohci_hcd 21252 0
usbcore 127128 6 usblp,usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
sr_mod 17188 0
ide_cd 39200 0
cdrom 36768 2 sr_mod,ide_cd
squashfs 46856 1