Slaxer_Pup slackware 12.2 SMP kernel boots puppy 4.12

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#16 Post by 01micko »

Hello big_bass and all other interested parties.

Lately I've been using three puplets per se. Slaxer-pup, NYP and spup I built from woof-3.1alpha.

NYP is nice, but that's not what I'm here to discuss.

This suggestion might be a little too far ahead ATM, but I think it's worth a mention.

THE ultimate would be the Slaxer-pup kernel dropped into spup. I'm sure this could be done with woof, but I wouldn't have a clue! (Yet :wink: ). This way we would almost have a true Slackware with the speed and versatility of Puppy. Slaxer-pup is great with hardware detection and so far for me has been very stable. OTOH spup has been super-fast and also very stable and it has the advantage of petget drawing straight from the Slackware official or the Slacky.eu repos.

Dunno if you tried woof, but it isn't hard and I'm sure the scripts could be hacked to accommodate the Slackware kernel with the necessary patches.

Just some food for thought!

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#17 Post by Keef »

I tried booting Slaxer on on USB stick but got the dreaded 'pup_412.sfs not found' message. No good reason for this, nothing to do with my menu.lst, just an occasional Puppy 'feature' I think.
Anyways, this was on a 1.7g Dell laptop, so I did another manual frugal install to my steam-powered 300mhz Armada 3500 (CF card in adapter).
This booted up fine of course...
Oh yes, and the point of my post is:
I use a Netgear USB dongle in both machines, that needs ndiswrapper to load the MS drivers.
The networkwizard tells me ndiswrapper cannot be found.
Running modprobe from a console gets the same 'fatal error'.
Any ideas why this should be?

[EDIT] Well the obvious reason is that it just aint there...
I copied a ndiswrapper.ko from ChoicePup and ran depmod, and the module was found. Unfortunately I have the retro version so it doesn't work :oops: , but I've solved it in principle. I think.

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#18 Post by 01micko »

Keef

I had the woes with ndiswrapper too. I think it needs to be compiled in the kernel.

As to your netgear usb dongle(s). What version are they? I have a wg111v2 that runs (with tweaks) ok with the rtl8187 module.

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#19 Post by Keef »

@ 01micko

Its the WG111T, which I believe has a different chipset (Atheros), and won't work out of the box on Linux as far as I can find out.
Still, there's always wires....

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#20 Post by 01micko »

Wires it is then!

I found the best USB dongle to be the TP-link el cheapo! Uses Ralink chipset and sets up and runs fast in all Puppies and puplets. TL-WN321G

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3G usb modem works in Slaxer_Pup

#21 Post by kayan »

@big_bass

Finally i can browse internet using my 3G Wireless Data Terminal ZTE MG478/AC8700 usb modem,in puppy using your Slaxer_Pup, by just editing WvDial Config.
but in all other puplets including Deep Though 4.2 ,modem not found was the standered error reported (even after editing WvDial Config)
Thanks !!!
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#22 Post by big_bass »

kayan
Finally i can browse internet using my 3G Wireless Data Terminal ZTE MG478/AC8700 usb modem,in puppy using your Slaxer_Pup, by just editing WvDial Config.

thanks for posting I know their are many more succsessfull

installs that aren´t posting yet

could you please post back in this thread exactly what you edited
as a code snippet

you will help many others by doing that
a big thanks in advance


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edited WvDial.conf

#23 Post by kayan »

i edited modem= from /dev/ttys0 to /dev/ttyUSB0
i removed the activation string from init2=
set carrier check to no
Baud = from 460800 to 980800
just that is it :D
Following is the edited WvDial script
[Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
Baud = 980800

Init1 = ATZ
Init2 =
Carrier Check = no
Dial Command = ATX1DT
Phone = #777
Username = 4272102118
Password = 4272102118
Auto Reconnect = yes

[Dialer isp2]
Phone = MY2ISPPHONENUM
Username = MY2USERNAME
Password = MY2PASSWORD
Auto Reconnect = yes
@big_bass

I have to Give you A BIG THANK YOU :D for making it possible for me to browse INTERNET using your Puplet

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#24 Post by 01micko »

Ok, I've been playing with Slaxer_Pup... literally. :)

I installed a new (to me) graphics card, ATi Raedon 9200, 128ddr and slaxer_pup was fine with it, even changing the res in the boot-up screen messages. 8) Funny thing, I got Slackware 12.2 and it doesn't like this card, must be the Xorg they are using.

Anyway, I found an old .pup of Tuxracer-0.6.1 and installed it. Needed a few more libs so I scrounged around for libs. Ok, didn't work so I ran PETget and found in the Puppy 4 repo Xorg-7.3.1. It has DRI and OpenGL support. I installed that and away Tux went, sliding fast as aver down that mountain!

I had some problems with the card in MU's NYP but in Slaxer it was fine ootb. It seems ok in 4.2 also. No good with BK's spup, but he is using Xorg-7.4. I'll report it too him.

Just thought this might be of interest. :wink:
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#25 Post by 01micko »

Hmmmm...

No dev_x... Stock 412 dev_x doesn't work (didn't think so, but I tried anyway!). I checked your repo on .ca, no dev_x.

EDIT: After a couple of goes dev_x mounted ok.

I typed

Code: Select all

#gcc
in a term and got "no input files". Yay, it works!
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#26 Post by big_bass »

miko
I installed a new (to me) graphics card, ATi Raedon 9200, 128ddr and slaxer_pup was fine with it, even changing the res in the boot-up screen messages. Cool Funny thing, I got Slackware 12.2 and it doesn't like this card, must be the Xorg they are using.
that's a nice surprise when the screen does that auto adjust to the smaller size in the boot up and if you add a vga=791 to the kernel option you get the little tux penguin image during boot up

my box does that too and I was wondering when someone else
got that also :D

about the the devx
there is a good reason for "the moment"I am using the standard devx
this is to sort out any compile related issues while auto building packages from source with src2pkg which there is no expected errors with that the expected
is updating the devx then adding the kernel headers too

I also want to maintain package compatibility

any module compiled on your 12.2 install would work
for the moment

but the standard devx is working fine building packages


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#27 Post by 01micko »

Yep, dev_x is all good. 8)

Compiled joewings latest build, all went well. Installed Val-ide and compiled BarryK's "hello world" gtk example. I think this is gonna be my main system for a while :P .

Games work, everything just works, except I haven't tried printing yet, oh, and I did have that ndiswrapper issue covered in previous posts.

I've just upgraded all the P series to latest versions and installed MU's Puppy-browser (fast!) and Picture-browser. Screeny over in eyecandy forum. Next is a late model gimp, don't know whose yet, may even compile it.

TY Joe

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#28 Post by big_bass »

micko
this is a special gimp its gimp"photoshop" I compiled and amigo patched the source
this is a rare one havent seen it listed anywhere else

http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/big_bass/Slack ... atched.pet

main site info
http://www.gimphoto.com/


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#29 Post by 01micko »

Got it.

Thanks. Based on 2.4.3 so it is later than the one in the puppy4 repo and I'll check out the extras.
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#30 Post by pakt »

01micko wrote:Yep, dev_x is all good. 8)
Good to hear that it works :P

Do we have the kernel source sfs for 2.6.27.7 anywhere? I'm trying to install the Nvidia driver for my box but it complains about needing the kernel source tree :?

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#31 Post by big_bass »

pakt wrote:
01micko wrote:Yep, dev_x is all good. 8)
Good to hear that it works :P

Do we have the kernel source sfs for 2.6.27.7 anywhere? I'm trying to install the Nvidia driver for my box but it complains about needing the kernel source tree :?

Paul
Hey Paul (pakt)
I don't want to hold you up any longer if you need to compile a module


UPDATED to be a pet package
I re compiled the kernel and here are the actual
headers
http://puppylinux.asia/tpp/big_bass/Sla ... slaxer.pet

there is a readme but I'll post it here also

*********************************
notes on slaxer_pup
these are a "reduced" meaning not the full 21 MB include but complete
set of source headers taken directly from
the kernel source that compiled slaxer_pup 412
with the end goal of just the most needed
headers for making modules

you can not compile a kernel with these
that would require a 680MB of the full
uncompressed sources

I custom made this package then made it a "pet"
for easy installation for the "puppy users"
************************************

Joe
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#32 Post by tasmod »

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

Big Bass it appears I owe you an apology. Wireless keyboard works.

I have SlaxerPup running.

The boot screen for some reason was cutting off the last line of the screen. I was unaware that the keyboard worked because nothing appeared onscreen. In fact it was there but just below viewable screen.

Once I actually typed puppy pfix=ram (blindly) and then pressed enter, it scrolled up screen into view. I had not gone as far as pressing enter before, because nothing showed onscreen.

Unfortunately still doesn't work for Woof though :(
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The moment after you press "Post" is the moment you actually see the typso 8)

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#33 Post by big_bass »

tasmod
Big Bass it appears I owe you an apology. Wireless keyboard works.

I have SlaxerPup running.
tasmond you reported what you saw
and that helps me

oh course it is nice to hear that things work
it is also important to hear what doesn't work so
it can be fixed

I have to edit the init script a little bit so that can be avoided

thanks for posting
and the good news :D


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#34 Post by pakt »

big_bass wrote:here you go it is already in a *.tgz format . I renamed it *tar.gz so I could upload here

you would have to make symlinks

unpatched sources
http://puppylinux.asia/tpp/big_bass/Sla ... arch-1.tgz

I am uploading the source too
Thanks Joe

I didn't reply right away because I wanted to try to figure out how to use your package with my frugal SlaxerPup installation. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out where (or even how - unpack and copy the files or leave it as a .tgz tarball ?) to install it (/usr/src/ ?). I did try both but whatever I tried, the Nvidia installer kept complaining about not finding the kernel source. I even tried adding the parameter '--kernel-source-path', but that didn't help :?

I think I need some help here :wink:

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#35 Post by hayagix »

SlaxerPup saves the day.

I was looking for a distro to install on an old Averatec 3200 laptop I'm fixing up for my daughter. Hd install imperative.
The trick was getting wireless to work with wpa. 2.6.26 kernels will work but will not allow wpa connections with linux drivers (rt2500pci). This eliminates standard Puppies.

Anything with 2.6.28 and newer kernels will run fine but freeze up on installation to hd.

SlaxerPup filled the bill nicely.

Great job and thankyou.

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