Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[jakfish]

It keeps failing to return normally. Most times, something's missing: wifi, wine, no shutdown.

I remember now that Tempestuous had warned of this, precisely b/c suspending to RAM is pretty tricky.

On the other hand, the eee readout of acpitool is interesting and thorough, so I'll keep it installed.

Jake

[netjess]

I was sooo excited to see pupeee 4.2 but alas wifi seems to only partialy work.
I have a eeePC 900 that came with XP installed. It all works but snail pace slow.
Pupeee is so much faster and now it can see the network but it won't pull an IP. I have M$ machines and a MacBook that work on my wireless just fine. I use WPA - Personal (WPA2?).
I put in the key and it just doesn't get an IP. Also it doesn't see my network in the "Puppy Network Wizard" but it does in pwireless.
I think this may be key. Maybe PNW can't deal with the WPA?

[luther349]

just use the puppy network manager if it doesn't see your network just try again. it will see it after a few tries. i tried other network manger in puppy and yes they don't get the ip.

[netjess]

I tried it several times. Always the same result. It does not see my wireless network. It sees a couple of my neighbors networks though.
I have even tried moving to different rooms in the house. Same result.
Same machine running XP has no trouble connecting, just SLOW.

[luther349]

my networks use wep and they work. however i have herd of issues with wpa and puppy. just switching your security to wep.

[Carlomag]

Please, where?

[luther349]

look a couple post down where someone ask for the pets i used. being its on the first page i saw no reasion to link it twice.

[netjess]

Yeah, not gonna change my network security to something less secure. Just won't use Pupeee, unfortunately.

[Lobster]

Obviously I too am not going to use a less secure encryption.
Great to see 4.2 working if not connecting on the Eeeepc

I use wpa2 for wireless and eeetiger worked with wpa2 - as yet Pupeee 4.2 does not. Not sure if Dinky is available to advise . . .
http://tmxxine.com/wik/wikka.php?wakka=TigerPup

[vader]

Hi all

pupeee works fine on my 701. One problem I found was that for some reason slimpacks_420.txt wasn't included which made remastering a bit tricky

If anyone wants it, I have remastered pupeee with all the bug fixes (and the slimpacks file). I have made one or two mods though. I prefer gimp to mtpaint, as well as mplayer instead of xine.

If anyone wants to remaster on the eee, you can by making a slight mod to remax, and mounting the current iso as loop.

ie. put the iso somewhere, and mount pupeee.iso /mnt/dvd -o loop

then copy /usr/sbin/remax to /tmp, and edit it. Searh for sr* and change to loop*. Run /tmp/remax and there you go! To remaster pupeee, get slimpacks_420.txt from the standard iso, and download 0dpkg_420 (the first entry in the install list). Make sure you tick "include file list on CD" so slimpacks is also included.

Cheers,
Vader

[luther349]

well thats up to you. i do believe theirs a patch to make wpa work. being i do not use wpa i did not test it. i do believe is you use a shorter key for wpa it does work i think its just the long keys it does not support. entering the long key threw iwconfig might do the trick.

[poopDog]

A quick pass shows it works on my 2GB surf (700 model) eee. Wireless works. Card reader works. Sound works without running configuration utility.

Thanks to everyone who worked on this project

-Zenko

[luther349]

well thanks goes to alot of people. i simply combine all there work into 1 iso. to save eee users the trouble of hunting it all down.

as for the wifi issues unfortunately its just the limits of the linux drivers. the only way to get full wifi on any distro is to use nds. witch puppy has issues with.

[tempestuous]

[luther349]

some bad news. my dog chewed my power cord. so for now this will be the only release i do until i order a new cord. lucky i just landed a new job. nothing pisses you off more then finding a destroyed cord that's not easy to replace.