Classic Pup 2.14X -- Updated 2 series

[ttuuxxx]

Hi Guys,

I haven't changed any settings so I cannot comment reference UK etc. I don't remember being offered any options except Xorg.

I've tried to get the wireless working. I have discovered from original box the pci card came in, that it uses the Ralink RT2561 chipset.

Now the site says rt61 should work but no joy here, it comes up as rt61 with unknown config.
There also appears to be an actual rt2561 driver as well available.

I've looked elsewhere for the driver but no luck. I've downloaded the driver tar.bz from Ralink but it's a bit confusing as it appears to contain 3 drivers and won't compile properly??

Hi could you try this and report back, I compiled the drivers for you.
ttuuxxx

These drivers should work for RT2501

[ttuuxxx]

added another driver, If you need any other drivers please supply the link, This is where I downloaded the sources from.
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/S ... htmlrt2561
ttuuxxx

[tasmod]

Thanks ttuuxxx,

I'll download and transfer them to the troublesome computer.

In the meantime I've loaded it onto todays 'skip' find .

A 1400mhz Sempron machine with 512mb ram, soundblaster card, cdrw, 8 usb and a floppy, all in a case, maybe a bit scratched but not badly.
Can't believe someone threw this out
I just added an 80gig disk, monitor, mouse and keyboard and off it went.

Runs 214 perfect, even started up on wireless. I'm using firefox right now, settings are just right. I've been enjoying the news feeds for a while.

I will get the other going though

[ttuuxxx]

nice find rob, I hope those drivers work for you, I'm interested in finding out if they did, Its my first time compiling drivers, so I have my fingers crossed.
ttuuxxx

[dawnsboy]

Screen shot of 2.14x3 with tempestous' eeepc driver patches applied. Posting from this desktop using WPA wireless connection. I rearranged things a little bit for the small screen. This is solid. Thanks ttuuxxx.

[ttuuxxx]

Screen shot of 2.14x3 with tempestous' eeepc driver patches applied. Posting from this desktop using WPA wireless connection. I rearranged things a little bit for the small screen. This is solid. Thanks ttuuxxx.

Looks good on your little screen, glad it works
ttuuxxx

[tempestuous]

I have discovered from original box the pci card came in, that it uses the Ralink RT2561 chipset.

Yes, that chipset is definitely supported by the rt61 driver in earlier kernels (later kernels use the rt61pci driver).
But Puppy 214R/X already contains the rt61 driver, and it has been successfully used by other forum members. It would be worth doing some diagnosis - you should run this command

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lspci -n

to make sure that your wifi device is recognised.

2009_0123_RT61_Linux_STA_v1.1.2.3-i386.pet

There's unnecessary duplication going on here. As I said, Puppy 214R/X already contains the rt61 driver.
And if you want an updated version of the rt61 driver, the best available is the version from the rt2x00 development project, which I already contributed 4 days ago - rt61-20090412-k2.6.18.1.pet
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 232#316232
The version that ttuuxxx compiled is the proprietary version, upon which the rt2x00 version is based. The rt2x00 version is bugfixed and improved.

[ttuuxxx]

Hi tempestuous, I don't use wireless, but I do a have wireless modem, and I configured it not to broadcast wireless, due to the fact that I've networked my house using cat6, Well 4 rooms anyways Anyways when I seen your test you posted, I was wondering what it would show, Could you maybe explain what that output means? So I might get some understanding on the topic. Thanks for your help
ttuuxxx

sh-3.00# lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 1106:0351
00:00.1 0600: 1106:1351
00:00.2 0600: 1106:2351
00:00.3 0600: 1106:3351
00:00.4 0600: 1106:4351
00:00.5 0800: 1106:5351
00:00.6 0600: 1106:6238
00:00.7 0600: 1106:7351
00:01.0 0604: 1106:b999
00:02.0 0604: 1106:a238
00:03.0 0604: 1106:c238
00:03.1 0604: 1106:d238
00:03.2 0604: 1106:e238
00:03.3 0604: 1106:f238
00:0f.0 0101: 1106:0591 (rev 80)
00:0f.1 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 07)
00:10.0 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev a0)
00:10.1 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev a0)
00:10.2 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev a0)
00:10.3 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev a0)
00:10.4 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86)
00:11.0 0601: 1106:3337
00:11.7 0600: 1106:287e
00:13.0 0604: 1106:337b
00:13.1 0604: 1106:337a
00:18.0 0600: 1022:1100
00:18.1 0600: 1022:1101
00:18.2 0600: 1022:1102
00:18.3 0600: 1022:1103
02:00.0 0300: 10de:0421 (rev a1)
06:00.0 0106: 11ab:6121 (rev b0)
07:08.0 0200: 10ec:8139 (rev 10)
08:01.0 0403: 1106:3288 (rev 10)
sh-3.00#

[clarf]

Hi ttuuxxx, i have a little request, could you please update the /etc/puppyversion file with the release version, now I have many 2.14 ISO not labeled. The 2.14.x3 version could work.

Thank you

[ttuuxxx]

Hi ttuuxxx, i have a little request, could you please update the /etc/puppyversion file with the release version, now I have many 2.14 ISO not labeled. The 2.14.x3 version could work.

Thank you

If I update the version number. wouldn't I have to start updating the devx numbers also?
ttuuxxx

[clarf]

If I update the version number. wouldn't I have to start updating the devx numbers also?
ttuuxxx

Hmmm, well I think soon or late you´ll have to do it...

[ttuuxxx]

I've also been informed that it will messup petget and other programs that call for that number. I was also told it would be best to leave it untounched, by a reliable source. lol
ttuuxxx
Ps almost finished with the next release, just have to test it now.

[clarf]

I've also been informed that it will messup petget and other programs that call for that number. I was also told it would be best to leave it untounched, by a reliable source. lol
ttuuxxx
Ps almost finished with the next release, just have to test it now.

Then, We shouldn´t play with it (yet).

About the next release a final though, How much space would you need to have a browser, a mail client and a html editor, without using SeaMonkey?. FireFox is my main browser in Windows and Linux, but how could we keep it in Puppy without losing features that are already present in Seamonkey and using the same or less size?.

[ttuuxxx]

I've also been informed that it will messup petget and other programs that call for that number. I was also told it would be best to leave it untounched, by a reliable source. lol
ttuuxxx
Ps almost finished with the next release, just have to test it now.

Then, We shouldn´t play with it (yet).

About the next release a final though, How much space would you need to have a browser, a mail client and a html editor, without using SeaMonkey?. FireFox is my main browser in Windows and Linux, but how could we keep it in Puppy without losing features that are already present in Seamonkey and using the same or less size?.

Well as that goes, I was thinking that people will not be satisfied with anything I would provide. During 4.2 build when had Seamonkey only no mail, and was using Claws Mail, people complained, Its just that there's so much choice for mail clients, Like Claws, Thunderbird, Seamonkey mail, simple mail, everybody wants a different mail client, I'll leave it up to them, I've already supplied a Full seamonkey package that can add, also I have a complete claws mail package they can add and the latest thunder bird is in the forum, and well simple mail they can download, I might make a installer program that they can click and it will download the package they want, As a wysiwyg editor goes I'll Include a Firefox plugin for one.
ttuuxxx

[clarf]

I've also been informed that it will messup petget and other programs that call for that number. I was also told it would be best to leave it untounched, by a reliable source. lol
ttuuxxx
Ps almost finished with the next release, just have to test it now.

Then, We shouldn´t play with it (yet).

About the next release a final though, How much space would you need to have a browser, a mail client and a html editor, without using SeaMonkey?. FireFox is my main browser in Windows and Linux, but how could we keep it in Puppy without losing features that are already present in Seamonkey and using the same or less size?.

Well as that goes, I was thinking that people will not be satisfied with anything I would provide. During 4.2 build when had Seamonkey only no mail, and was using Claws Mail, people complained, Its just that there's so much choice for mail clients, Like Claws, Thunderbird, Seamonkey mail, simple mail, everybody wants a different mail client, I'll leave it up to them, I've already supplied a Full seamonkey package that can add, also I have a complete claws mail package they can add and the latest thunder bird is in the forum, and well simple mail they can download, I might make a installer program that they can click and it will download the package they want, As a wysiwyg editor goes I'll Include a Firefox plugin for one.
ttuuxxx

You are right ttuuxxx it´s very hard to please all kind of tastes, then a good (I mean updated, categorized and organized) repository for 2.14x could help. But the maintenance work will be very hard.

I use thunderbird or Seamonkey for mail, sadly Mozilla foundation don´t update them like FireFox.

Meanwhile the plugin editor sounds good, I never hear of one before apart from kompoze (it was good, although it messed up the html code, damn nothing is perfect...) , I personally use some useful extensions: Tab Scope, english dictionary and extended copy menu. Which ones could be added without increasing Puppy size and which ones are really needed?. (I didn´t take notice of plugin size in firefox before). Again the best option is keep it small and let the final decision to the user...

[ttuuxxx]

funny thing, while I was testing the next iso, you mentioned about a wysiwyg editor, So then I was debating on starting over again and including one, then Firefox says there's an update, lol I guess that was telling me start over again, So I did, the next iso will have a wysiwyg plugin already configured. Its a button next to the home button, you have to be on a new page to start it, It doesn't like say a forum page, but if google is open, it will fire right up.
ttuuxxx

[OlddogNewtricks]

ttuuxxx, my mut pic.

[ttuuxxx]

ttuuxxx, my mut pic.

a bit late, I just finished uploading the next iso
I think I fixed it, just tell me how it went
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

ok guys here's the next release
give it a rundown
I'll post some comments in a bit about the updates
ttuuxxx

http://www.ttuuxxx.gposil.com/2.14X/iso/214X4.iso

Here's whats in this update
-fixed menus
-removed xrun and replaced it with gExec still have a link for xrun that execuutes gExec, should I remove the extra link?
-Changed freetype
-Change glib to glib-2.20.2 version, I had to do this for compiling reasons
-added 9 wifi driver packages
-coreutils
-didiwiki-0.5-5.1
-gtkdialog3
-ndiswrapper-1.54
-ntfs-3g-2009
-pptp-1.7.2
-transmission-1.72
-added Xinha to Firefox (have to be on the net for it to work, and just open a page up to google and click the button next to the home button in Firefox.)
-removed the mail icon from the desktop
-added a mut icon on the desktop

(Known issues, extra "Most Visited" link in the personal toolbar.)
ttuuxxx

[mawebb88]

ok this is it for now to do with games, This SDL game is realllllly addictive, you have to click 4 corners and make a square or rectangle, The game needs sdl from above, I removed the sound file because it was 5.8MB lol for 1 ogg song, So I spit it into 2 pets, 1st is the game and if you really want the sound file its there, Note you have to install the game before the music file, because I included a fake ogg sound file so the game would play, it wouldn't run without one, so if you install the music file second, it will overwrite the dummy sound file.

game (874kb pet)
http://www.ttuuxxx.gposil.com/2.14X/sdl ... 3-i386.pet

Music File (5736kb pet)
http://www.ttuuxxx.gposil.com/2.14X/sdl ... -music.pet

ttuuxxx

I installed the SDL stuff from earlier before installing Joolem but there was 2 libs missing: (on X3)

libSDL_image..... & libSDL_ttf....

Anthyway I grabbed them from you lib store at http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/ttuuxxx/Libs/ made sym links and now okay. Really like this game.
Thanks Mike