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2.14x
11
29%
2.14x
4
11%
2.14x
11
29%
Other: 2.14x only
12
32%
 
Total votes: 38

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Eathray
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#4786 Post by Eathray »

Hey ttuuxxx and friends,

Can anyone direct me to or provide directions to get Google Talk working in Xchat?

Usually we just go with Pidgin, but I can't find one for 214x. I tried one for 4 series, but wasn't stable.

For the wife, she likes Google Talk, but in a stand alone, not online.

Thanks,

Eathray

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#4787 Post by dealora »

Is it possible to connect Realtek 8187 wireless (Wifi) in puppy 2. 14 x how?

Thankyou

Juan (Spain)

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#4788 Post by starhawk »

Can't seem to get -top9 to load from a USB optical drive... drops out to initial-RAMdisk console when it can't find itself with both hands ;) seems to assume that all CD drives are IDE... bother :?

I hope -top10 fixes this... I'm downloading it now, for a VIA C3 based system that has all the computational horsepower of an early '90's pager :lol:

EDIT: ...that would be a no. In fact, it looks like *all* the stuff I type at the boot: prompt is being ignored... I've had this happen with multiple Puppies so I suspect it's a quirk of the hardware I'm using.

EDIT2: Well, I did *something* right this time, and it worked. No idea what. IIRC boot prompt was "puppy pmedia=usbcd pfix=ram,noramsfs". All I know for sure, is that I got it to boot. Finally!

...now, as usual, I need to find a WiFi driver for my card... but I think I can do that myself ;)

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#4789 Post by starhawk »

...eh, too much trouble from this... I think I'll stick to Puplite5 for my legacy installs... it's faster anyways.

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#4790 Post by jobo »

hi, ive just done a frugal install of 214 by 9 and 10 and it wont recognise mt eithernet conection say no modem/interface detected, , other versions of puppy conect up with no bother

i dont know what modem is built in, but its a very old ibm think pad a21m running windows 98
can any one help me with this

thanks

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#4791 Post by Aitch »

jobo

A21 modem is usually 'Xircom MPCI+ Modem 56 WinGlobal' in win98, and can be a modem only or modem + network card in the internal pci-e slot

http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail. ... IGR-4PCRRF

It should use the builtin kernel module LT, AFAIK

Have you tried the network connection wizard?

Aitch :)

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#4792 Post by RetroTechGuy »

jobo wrote:hi, ive just done a frugal install of 214 by 9 and 10 and it wont recognise mt eithernet conection say no modem/interface detected, , other versions of puppy conect up with no bother

i dont know what modem is built in, but its a very old ibm think pad a21m running windows 98
can any one help me with this

thanks
Google indicates that the modem is a Lucent WinModem (winmodems are not hardware modems, and thus not always well supported under Linux).

However, network interfaces tend to generally be well supported under Linux (direct line to your high speed router).

I'm assuming that you tried that direct connection? Plug it in, click on the "connect" icon, and it should find a network.
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#4793 Post by jobo »

yes i did, not its not detecting anything

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#4794 Post by jobo »

any takers on this, ive since load puppy lipy retro and that connected no problem, just ran though the wizard, but id still like to give this version ago

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#4795 Post by alphadog »

Hello anybody there?
I would like to install 214x on my OLD laptop (running as live cd and a save file at the moment). Specs for lappy below in my sig.
I have a problem, for some reason I cannot change the desktop wallpaper.
When I click on desktop background (using themes icon on desktop) a blue box is saying "generating thumbnails. please wait" and then another window flashes open and instantly disappears.
xerrs log attached.
I am no linux guru so be gentle with me!
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#4796 Post by greengeek »

jobo wrote:hi, ive just done a frugal install of 214 by 9 and 10 and it wont recognise mt eithernet conection say no modem/interface detected, , other versions of puppy conect up with no bother
Hi Jobo, if you look at the end of the network cable you plug in to the PC, how many gold pins can you see? And also, what brand /model number of router have you got?

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#4797 Post by ttuuxxx »

alphadog wrote:Hello anybody there?
I would like to install 214x on my OLD laptop (running as live cd and a save file at the moment). Specs for lappy below in my sig.
I have a problem, for some reason I cannot change the desktop wallpaper.
When I click on desktop background (using themes icon on desktop) a blue box is saying "generating thumbnails. please wait" and then another window flashes open and instantly disappears.
xerrs log attached.
I am no linux guru so be gentle with me!
hi try installing this and please report back.
ttuuxxx
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#4798 Post by alphadog »

Ok mate will try this out later today or tomorrow. I'm at work now . Will definately report back. Because after all, community help is what makes puppy what it is, GRRRReat!
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#4799 Post by alphadog »

Yay thanks ttuuxxx that solved the problem!
Onwards and upwards!
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#4800 Post by jobo »

greengeek wrote:
jobo wrote:hi, ive just done a frugal install of 214 by 9 and 10 and it wont recognise mt eithernet conection say no modem/interface detected, , other versions of puppy conect up with no bother
Hi Jobo, if you look at the end of the network cable you plug in to the PC, how many gold pins can you see? And also, what brand /model number of router have you got?
7 and its an echolife hg520b

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#4801 Post by greengeek »

jobo wrote:7 and its an echolife hg520b
Would it be possible for you to boot one of the puppies that works and take a screenshot of the display shown while you are running the network setup wizard? That should show the name of the network interface as seen by the network wizard. Also maybe type "lsmod" into a terminal screen and have a look at the names of the network modules that are loaded, then we can compare that with what does not get loaded on the 214x.

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#4802 Post by jobo »

it try , ive never taken a screen shot before

thanks

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Grub Bootloader

#4803 Post by alphadog »

Back again! Trying to install 214Top10 on this old laptop.
I have formatted hdd to ext3 and tried to to do a full install. All seemed to go well until I got to the grub bootloader config and then it all went wrong!
The splash box says "use simple option" which takes you to the "expert
installation" box! Strange, to say the least.
Ok I thought I'll give the "expert" grub install a go (even though I am no expert) but whatever option I click the splash box disappears only to reappear a couple of seconds later .
Anybody got any ideas of how to make grub install properly. Is this a bug in Top10, although I can't find any info about it in the Classic Pup thread.
P.S Just tried frugal install with the same result!
Dell Optiplex760 8Gb RAM 256Gb SSD+500Gb HDD(Now running Bionicpup64)

Dewbie

#4804 Post by Dewbie »

Anybody got any ideas of how to make grub install properly.

Install and use this Grub .pet instead.

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#4805 Post by Hugh »

I've done a "manual" Frugal Install of TOP10 on
my aged computer (replacing TOP8) and I am
very positively impressed!!

The initial setup went smoothly and flawlessly.
XORGWIZARD did its magic with my video card
and monitor so now all graphics and YouTube are
working - (with TOP8 there were problems.)

Everything that I've tried thus far is working as
it should! Ttuuxxx I think you've got a great
one here!

REQUEST: Would it be possible to make available
a PET for PWSGET to replace PWGET for downloads?

QUESTION: I can't figure out how to change the
destination drive and folder for stream saves in
Stream Tuner. Being able to "Record" is a very
nice feature and I'd like to be able to change the
drive and folder from the default "/root/Music" to
a mounted drive.

The Edit Preferences mode shows the Command
and Path but there seems to be no way to modify
it. Is there a config file somewhere?

Thanks a zillion Ttuxxx and all who've made this
possible!!!
Various Old Computers 100MHz - 1.9GHz
First Puppy: 2.00 Presently: TahrPup 6.0.3
HDD Filesystem: FAT32/ext3; Frugal Always

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