Quirky 008 feedback

[aarf]

pwirelss2 problem looks to be the similar as for upup458 discussion starts here
temp solution by jemimah was to run

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#/etc/init.d/Pwireless2

in a terminal to produce the required file /usr/local/Pwireless2/interface in quirky8

[tronkel]

As aarf pointed out in the last post, a work-around from Jemimah is to run /etc/init.d/Pwireless2.

On running this script from its folder location, I noticed that its permissions were set to non-executable, so fixed that in ROX and Pwireless2 ran fine.

I'm not sure just how feasible this would be to implement, but it would be ice cool if Pwireless2 could check for a plugged-in or hot-plugged usb wlan device and then offer to connect it. Maybe a UDEV event could be used to detect this.

If say Pwireless2 was being used on a netbook or laptop where the device is already built in, would also be cool if the boot script could detect the presence of such a device and then pop-up a dialogue just after boot time that offers to connect it - a la Ubuntu.

LOL I don't want much do I?

[mawebb88]

I tried Q008 on my Acer Aspire 5100.

Similar probelms noted as reported earlier in this thread about WiFi connection wizards i.e. Jemimah's Pwireless2 message-box appears showing only "no interfaces detected" but Dougal's Network wizard worked ok.

But even though I had a working Internet connection e.g Google search worked, SM refused to load my Yahoo home page http://my.yahoo.com/. Needless to say its ok in 431 etc.

Rgds Mike

[rameshiyer]

Live CD is not booting . It shows that "performing a Switch_root" to the layered file system--Kernel Panic' not sysc in". kindly advise me how to install or make to boot the quirky 008 in my PC. My PC configuration is Intel Q6600, 3GB RAM, Intel original Motherboard

[aarf]

Live CD is not booting . It shows that "performing a Switch_root" to the layered file system--Kernel Panic' not sysc in". kindly advise me how to install or make to boot the quirky 008 in my PC. My PC configuration is Intel Q6600, 3GB RAM, Intel original Motherboard

either md5sum is wrong for the downloaded quirky.iso, or the cd didnt burn properly. If you are sure both of those are ok then drivers may be the problem. Someone else will need to advise you about drivers.

[aarf]

Removed duplicate post

[01micko]

Ok,

Pwireless thing already mentioned and solution.

I run an rt73 Ralink compat usb wireless device and it seems very flakey with the kernel. I can say this because I also bullt a ppup from the latest woof with the latest kernel. So, in that respect not a quirky problem. Possibly a "conglomerate" ( ) network wizard problem. By flakey i mean that it is fast as a rocket for a minute or two, and then seem down for five minutes, then seem back to full performance for awhile, then drops off again. Very unusual. The wife is running Quirky-006 concurrently with absolutely no issues on Facebook so I know it is not a router issue, incidently she has the exact same model USB wireless adapter.

However, in the network wizard (Dougal version) I scan, my essid is detected, I choose (wep), all good... (save of course), I "use" and the gtkdialog progressbar hits 100% and stops, then the gui comes up saying "puppy can't find network.. bla bla" so I hit "test wlan0" (which indicates the interface is fine) and the progress bar barely reaches 20% and I get the "'Puppy was able to find a live network' You can proceed to acquire an IP address" message. I get the IP and connect.

Sorry, haven't looked further than this but as I mentioned it may be a kernel issue with my particular module.

[4-stroke]

I run an rt73 Ralink compat usb wireless device and it seems very flakey with the kernel.

I can't get mine to connect with anything with WPA2, not even from the commandline.

[adi]

c-media ac97 usb or integrated not recognized
keyboard layout not set after boot (remains on us)

[Terryphi]

keyboard layout not set after boot (remains on us)

See Barry's post on page 1 of this thread which gives a fix for this problem.

[Béèm]

...that should be XKEYMAP="$CONSKEYMAP", not XKEYMAP="$xCONSKEYMAP" -- delete that "x" then save.

Exit from X, run 'xorgwizard', and then run 'xwin' to restart X, and all should be right.

I solved this for my Belgian keyboard by editing xorg.conf.

[Béèm]

Pwireless2 doesn't detect my wireless device (ipw2100) in my R40 Thinkpad, while the netw wizard does.

[Lobster]

I was rather perplexed by the new integrated wizard (I have ethernet)
In the end Dougals worked OK
The BK wizard did not - not sure if that helps any tweaking . . .

My AtI Radeon HD 4350 Graphic card worked OK
and by dragging the latest xaraLX sfs into the Menu / utility / sfsConvert
I was able to use XaraLX

[Béèm]

As aarf pointed out in the last post, a work-around from Jemimah is to run /etc/init.d/Pwireless2.

On running this script from its folder location, I noticed that its permissions were set to non-executable, so fixed that in ROX and Pwireless2 ran fine.

I'm not sure just how feasible this would be to implement, but it would be ice cool if Pwireless2 could check for a plugged-in or hot-plugged usb wlan device and then offer to connect it. Maybe a UDEV event could be used to detect this.

If say Pwireless2 was being used on a netbook or laptop where the device is already built in, would also be cool if the boot script could detect the presence of such a device and then pop-up a dialogue just after boot time that offers to connect it - a la Ubuntu.

LOL I don't want much do I?

Fixed the permission issue also.
Then, when running from a terminal got:

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+ /usr/local/Pwireless2/start-wpa
+++ DHCPCD=/usr/sbin/dhcpcd
+++ export WPA_SUPPLICANT=/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant
+++ WPA_SUPPLICANT=/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant
+++ export WPA_CLI=/usr/sbin/wpa_cli
+++ WPA_CLI=/usr/sbin/wpa_cli
+++ cat /usr/local/Pwireless2/interface
++ INTERFACE=eth1
++ /usr/sbin/dhcpcd -b -f /usr/local/Pwireless2/dhcpcd.conf
dhcpcd: version 5.1.5 starting
dhcpcd: forking to background
++ sleep 2
Selected interface 'eth1'
wpa_supplicant did not reply to PING command - exiting

Then tried the internet connection wizard agai and selected Pwireless.
This time I could configure the interface.
But I am missing the little antenna in the system tray.

[Béèm]

Pwireless2 doesn't detect my wireless device (ipw2100) in my R40 Thinkpad, while the netw wizard does.

After fixing the permission of Pwireless2 I tried the Internet connection wizard again.
This time the network was configurated ok, but I miss the little green antenna in the system tray.

[Béèm]

One more thing on the Pwireless2.
In the access point list, I miss the strength indicator as it is done in the network wizard. Is needed to choose a access point and for information.

[Béèm]

Nice idea to have the temperature displayed in the system tray under the battery loading indicator

[8-bit]

Not trying to be a stickler here, but I downloaded the devx SFS file, but where do I get the patched kernel source SFS file for Quirky 8?
And was Quirky 8's kernel compiled with smp support?

[Béèm]

Icons in the menu and sys tray have a black background. Not a transparent one.
This is disturbing.

[`f00]

@Béèm - nope, it's jwm (or JWM, as pointed out) - but not too terribly disturbing (in my opinion) as it only affects JWM's display of icons in those parts of the display that the wm dictates, sorry if I misunderstood your concern. Alpha values (or transparency/opacity both true and pseudo) may sometimes be interpreted differently by certain setups as well.

___firstlook___
Hello q008 (and yet another use of my personal quirky-Xorg cribsheet to get Xorg up out of its confusion.. it should be framed, perhaps). Still 'bad'alpha on jwm's display of icons screenie 9k, scaling and/or simply not correctly rendering alpha hint - afaict, not an issue for any other gui (altho inkscapelite, aka .36-pre, may show a bit of oddness/artefacts depending). I approve of the plain bg (for testing, anyway), kind of like the old 18% graycard used in photography (and my 1st shot on the roll when I use film).. No idea why leafpad seems to be 'out of favour' on some recent pups (but no biggie since it's an easy add and yah, nico' is lots more versatile).

(prepares for crash..) And now, multimedia! alsamixer looks to be usual default and leaving as-is .. trash barks when lockscreen is fed to it .. barks again when lockscreen 'deleted' (oops) .. try an audio CD .. and even with simple pCD it crashes - was doing a note on a floppy, setting up rox to openwith or sendto leafpad and keeeeeeeeeeeeeeen-bang-deadog (and not in the mood to edit xorg.conf again just to load it, altho it gets easier with repetition..).

___disc-switch upgrade from q006___
For me, this resulted in a neither fish nor fowl (but somehow basically functional) quirkypup. As a side comment, I can understand keeping/reverto Official files (sanity and more-or-less enforced consistency in testing) - for general release it would be imo a good option to have a simple method of 'personal' remastering that would keep user settings intact (for multisession livedisc). It seems always to be a jumble regarding what prefs have been reverted (actually, the switch-disc upgrade worked well - just sometimes I get confused as to what got pulled from multisession layers and what was modifications on the remaster's sfs) and a bit tedious but educational shaking down an upgrade to personal taste.

Mounting fs by driveicon on the roxpin-standard desktop is quite sluggish (not my personal pref anymore but many use it). /tmp/versioncleanup dir is a bit sparse - good, the Official libjpeg set now seems fine from the get-go However; just to pick at a scab, jwm doesn't respect or render icon transparency properly - to be sure, mostly a cosmetic flaw but still.. even a wm should get display proper or closer than this smallish anomaly indicates.

Lots to do (mostly done asof this 100309 edit) - wine survived the upgrade but the earliest and more vital (to me, anyway) apps&etc are probably on the remastered q006 sfs (ick, quirky having an issue with mounting the sfs on disc but oki on the original buildfile sfs on flash) - xfe first since rox is less solid at d'n'd for me (often rox will regard a button-release as a click and try to move what I'd intended to copy ). Trim the menu (which is probably the last thing I'll do before sessionsave) etcetc.. usw

Freememapplet shell (swallowed in jwm tray) was fine initially, disappeared from display after the save