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Road tested Polar 5 today, it doesn't recognise my PCI wireless adapter-

Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

It also came up with an error before x-server starts, something like
FATAL: cannot load module usdhid

don't know if that's related.

I want to compile qtractor for polar as it already has qt built in.

Any suggestions appreciated . . .

Nah. Usbhid has been compiled statically. Most recent Puppies have usb modules compiled statically, not as modules any more...
If there is interest to get your wireless working....I would need output of lspci -nn and posted the wireless row.

This is the wireless device - its detect by Lucid 5.28 and 5.29

00:09.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)

maybe its a missing driver

i think these are the modules in Lucid-

b43 132145 0
mac80211 123470 1 b43
cfg80211 98953 2 b43,mac80211

search b43 in system files reveals-

/lib/firmware/b43
/lib/modules/2.6.37.6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43
/lib/modules/2.6.37.6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.37.6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy
/lib/modules/2.6.37.6/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.ko
/lib/modules/all-firmware/b43legacy.tar.gz
/lib/modules/all-firmware/b43.tar.gz


can I just copy these across?

darkcity. No need. Your chip 14e4:4318 is one of those which /etc/init.d/BC-wl script unfortunately thinks that you will need wl driver. But you need b43.

So....simply remove /etc/init.d/BC-wl and reboot. After that b43 should be recognized and autoloaded.

That script just tries to recognize those broadcom chips which needs wl but it is not perfect.

Great stuff, posting from polar - network wizard worked ; -)

Hi pemasu

enjoying polar pup, it seems good at picking the internet which has been a problem.

I've managed to compile qtrackor, although not with all its features function yet.

How do a turn the shutdown cd warning message off? couldn't find the settings

Hey...that is great....to get Qtractor to compile...not bad at all.
I am not sure if the Pupshutdown has a option in the version I used in Polarpup. But if you download latest Pupshutdown...it surely has it. Also the cd asking is off as default in latest Pupshutdown. It should be behind settings icon again settings icon and the settings....setting 3 times...at least in this latest Pupshutdown.

Hi,

can we install BINO 3d player in polarpup ?

because i fail when i try to compile in lucid
http://208.109.22.214/puppy/viewtopic.p ... 9b3f9108b9

thanks

Hi Master Wrong,

It is certainly worth a try,
for qtractor I had to install developer library first:

libqt4-dev

and all its dependencies (which is plenty)

USE PPM to find libqt4-dev (it may be in the ubuntu repositories so enable them)

Without that I got error - needs qt4.2 or greater

good luck

I test compiled Bino in Dpup Exprimo. It went fairly smoothly. The problem. Bino uses ffmpeg for video decoding and I am afraid my compiled ffmpeg-0.9.1-git version is not up to date for video decoding in this level.
It needs ffmpeg => 0.7 and it needs more video options enabled that I have.
So....I can start Bino...but my ffmpeg does not play anything. Bino crashes because of that.

I dont see any problems why it would not compile in Polarpup. I am not sure if Polarpup has definitive enough /etc/profile.d/qt4 exporting file for compiling Bino, but I can upload the working version today.

I just dont have time now to use Polarpup. Heavily attached to kernel compiling.

Darkcity. Polarpup has the qt4 development stuff up to opengl and phonon-gstreamer...fair complete.
They are in devx sfs. But...I think you will need a little better exporting first.

Install the attached pet and and then in console: "source /etc/profile.d/qt4"

My previous version has not been definitive enough....for all qt4 application compiling. Some environments has not been able to find the right location.

Installing lucid qt4 is somewhat funny....when you have already full qt4 environment in distro. It just needs to be defined better.

Pemasu I am just too dense to get it so I ask.
You don't have to answer but the title is
Polarpup-005 with Qt4-4.8.0 and Gstreamer libs inbuild

I remember vaguely that you had Polarpup 15 or even later versions?
So is it something special with Polarpup-005
that let it work with Qt4-4.8.0 and Gstreamer libs and the later versions
being different?

As I remember Polarpup-005 had Lupu 513 as base and later versions
most likely where Lupu 525? or even 528? Or is it about what kernel
them use? No big deal just me curious. If it is a too heavy bad derail
then ignore it

Edit Much appreciated. sorry my poor memory mixed them up.
So Snow where up to snow 15 or beyond while Polarpup current version
are at polarpup 5 okay.

Nope. You mix the Ice Puppy, Snow Puppy and Polarpup versions. I havent retrograded Polarpup. 005 is the latest in this saga.

There isnt anything special in Polarpup. Just compiled the kernel, used the latest woof of that time, compiled and included full Qt4.

I have stepped out of Lucid Puppy development before 5.2 version. Playdayz stopped using woof upgrades and started to use some maverick libs and bins. So...you couldnt build Lucid Puppy anymore from net repo. I had to step out. I have had always pure Ubuntu Lucid Puppy...no upgraded libs or bins...only those which I have compiled in Polarpup or in my other Lucid Puplets.

So...My Lucid builds havent followed fully Playdayz work. But....I have followed the update processes keenly and I have picked up useful stuff all the time. So my builds have in big percent flavour of Lucid Puppies. Well....wm`s are JWM and Icewm...not openbox.

@Pemasu

great - will try qt dev 'redefined' with fresh install

will experiment later in week.

if can get jack and other features working in qtractor and can learn to make pet - then I will upload qtractor

@pemasu

thanks, downloading eprimo...

I want to install ffmpeg from... http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57886

do you think it will work ?

thanks

Master_wrong. I dont know. Using ffmpeg for video decoding is something I havent much done. Usually I use ffmpeg for conversion or for music listening with Pmusic.
It is experimenting now with Bino.

I can upload my compiled Bino....if you want to test it.

I can upload my compiled Bino....if you want to test it.

YES...

yes please thank you...

Not sure how working this compile is...or does it work with other ffmpeg version....but since I compiled it as test.....here you go...
I am sure you will need to install some missing libs...so launch it in console and start hunting.
libass...libopenal...libenca...maybe something else.

It can be that my compile is just not working one. The error message I get, when I googled suggests that the bino compile might be non-working and it is not due to incompatible ffmpeg at all.

Thanks, Pemasu.

EDIT :
i run your compiled bino on 528, with libQT files (60 files) taken... i mean borrowed from other installed linux...

but then again, i failed to run windows-version-of-bino on my computer too... with same error

maybe hardware problem?

EDIT:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bino- ... 00088.html