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JustGreg · Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 785 Location: Connecticut USA

I have tried a frugal installation of Dingo with kernel 2.6.21.7 and everything worked fine. No problems were encountered. I have downloaded Dingo with kernel 2.6.25 with a frugal installation and tried to connect to my wireless device (driver rt73USB). Using the connection wizard, I surprised to see the message that the rt73USB driver does not support WPA. This is probably a driver problem. The same problem was encountered with kernel 2.6.24 (dingo 3.96, I think). Is it possible to use older version of rt73usb driver (one used with 2.6.21.7) with the newer kernel? This will be a problem also for the Intel Classmate. The Intel Classmate wireless device also uses the rt73usb driver. Thank you in advance for any help on this one.

BarryK

NathanO · Joined: 22 Feb 2007 Posts: 208 Location: San Antonio, TX

Tested both versions. Older kernel works ok on both the tower and the laptop.
6.25 kernel ok on the tower, would not work with USB mouse on the HP Pavilion zv6000 laptop. This is the first version of Puppy that I have run into this problem on. What information would you need to find the problem?

BarryK · Posted: Sat 03 May 2008, 21:56 Post subject:

BarryK · Posted: Sat 03 May 2008, 21:58 Post subject:

From the commandline you can use the mp text editor:

# mp /proc/bus/usb/devices

to poke around in that file.

big_bass · Joined: 13 Aug 2007 Posts: 1742

Lobster · Posted: Sat 03 May 2008, 22:26 Post subject:

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1518 Location: florida

Pupdial has been broke for me since beta1. My init2 string is Init2 = AT$QCMDR=3, but shows up as AT3. I guess the $ is messing it up in beta2 - sc1. If i change line 177 from:

<input>echo \"${INIT2M}\"</input>

to

<default>\"${INIT2M}\"</default>

like it was in beta1, then it works correctly as it did in the past. I guess line 170, which is init1, would have the same problem.

P.S.:

Going to post the kernel source for 2.6.25 or a sfs file of it?

John Doe · Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1689 Location: Michigan, US

here is my report:

I tested both versions on 4 different machines with all types of configurations.

found a couple small problems. some have already been reported, but I'll keep them in there just for informational purposes.

1-in version 2.6.25 USB keyboards and mice do not seem to work when plugged into USB1.1. I'm using a mouse right now with USB 2.0 and it works ok. Perhaps a missing module in initrd?

2-in version 2.6.25 kernel, I have trouble with sound on one machine. It works with 2.6.21.7. I compared the modules loaded by each version on the machine in question and found that 2.6.21.7 loads three more than 2.6.25 does.

snd
soundcore
snd_hwdep

the first two appear to be missing ("Fatal: Module * not found", when I modprobe) and the third loads but doesn't fix the problem.

On the other three machines, sound works fine with either version.

3-bcw43xx driver is missing. The firmware looks like it's there, but it isn't in the list of modules under the networking wizard. *note, I read what you wrote about b43, but that says it's for a PCMCIA BUS and mine is on the board in a laptop. I don't see b43legacy in the list.

4-Hotpup (under 2.6.21.7) only lists the first optic drive (dvd/cd) when two are present. Same behavior whether they are sr0,sr1 or hda0,hda1 (SCSI/IDE [i think]). Both drives are listed ok in 2.6.25 on both machines in question.

5-Had some seamonkey crashes when running Flash Player. Tried to diagnose by launching seamonkey from the shell but haven't gotten it to crash again. The only info I've gotten is this warning:

Flash Player: Warning: environment variable G_FILENAME_ENCODING is set and is not UTF-8

I'll keep trying to get an error, but for the time being I'm just chalking this one up as the flash player is a POS. Hopefully they fix it in the next version.

6-can't copy and paste between rxvt and geany.

other than those few things, all is perfect. Looks like the best release yet.