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Re: Slacko B3

#31 Post by jim3630 »

01micko wrote:
*jim3630, peebee (and others) - I know you are Frisbee lovers...
01micko I'm not a Frisbee lover but think if something is in a distro release it should work. The sns and connection wizard do not work for those who have new HP laptops and other brands with the crap broadcom wl.ko driver.

Frisbee does work for all those people because it rewrites sns and connection wizard's failed scripts.

Frisbee only appears to conflict with sns and the connection wizard because novice users do not know if they use Frisbee not to touch sns and connection wizard.

If Puppy didn't connect to the internet out of the box the first time I used it I would not have gone online looking for a program to try to make it work.

Around the world in many counties internet connection time costs are high and charge by the minute. People can not afford the luxury of reading online nor have unlimited download time.

Linux was a gift so all people everywhere could have a quality os with quality programs. Puppy strives to embrace novice users.

This was worked out in Lucid 528, 529 and numerous pups recently built so not needed to reinvent the wheel nor risk writing off potential Puppy linux users.

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#32 Post by 01micko »

jim3630,

Of course your point is taken. If you try a pristine boot with Frisbee, can you connect?

I guess it may be worth the bloat of 1 driver (1% of the size if the iso :roll: , curse broadcom! [and with Frisbee about 1.8%]) to include for victims of broadcom.

I was hoping that the pns-tool may work for you, oh well, was worth a shot, it's only 3K.

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#33 Post by jim3630 »

01micko wrote: jim3630

When pasting a long line please use the code tags for formatting, the forum doesn't handle it well, as everyone can see.

I am not sure if that firmware would work for you, as this kernel is 2.6.37.6, too early. Nothing changed with Frisbee or the driver, so again I'll blame the libs, I'll revert all the libs to B2 versions and bring out B4 soon.
01micko will have to learn those code tags. I used # setfont but as see didn't help.

firmware alone won't work without the drivers. maybe miss read BarryK's post that it would be in all new Woof builds. thought that would include slacko as it is built on Woof.

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#34 Post by Stripe »

hi all

its looking very good so far, just watched the moto gp on iplayer without trouble (about 180 minutes)

one little problem, on the lappy I cant get the touchpad to tap. have tried changing the settings in flsyclient but no joy. any ideas?

totally off topic: does anyone know of a recent sopcast pet
? or other non flash video streaming software.

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#35 Post by tasmod »

Seems pemasu and I duplicated efforts. :?
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#36 Post by jim3630 »

01micko wrote:jim3630,

Of course your point is taken. If you try a pristine boot with Frisbee, can you connect?

I guess it may be worth the bloat of 1 driver (1% of the size if the iso :roll: , curse broadcom! [and with Frisbee about 1.8%]) to include for victims of broadcom.

I was hoping that the pns-tool may work for you, oh well, was worth a shot, it's only 3K.

Cheers
01micko pfix=ram installed broadcom_wl-k2.6.37.6spup.pet and your newest frisbee 2.2pet rebooted to find frisbee acquired wifi on eth1.

success!

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#37 Post by Jim1911 »

01micko wrote:Jim1911

Didn't that printer work ok in earlier slacko? I'm thinking it's a usb issue.. Barry changed heaps of libs with his "no xcb" compile fest and I almost bet that's what has broken it.. every woof there is certainly something that gets broke in Slacko :(
FWIW, my canon-mp490 installed ok and prints from abiword. There is a bug with abiword, again from woof, .odt isn't working though the plugin is there :(
I don't recall. I did update a save file from v. 3 and the printer does not work in it. Unfortunately, disks older than 499.4 have already been tossed so I can't go back and test again very easily. This report is based on a fresh installation of 499.5. The HP Officejet 6500 Wireless works fine using Fatdog 64-520 and Lucid THD 5.2.9. Incidently, 499.5 does recognize usb flash drives.

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#38 Post by 01micko »

Stripe- flSynclient-0.7 is in the repo, IIRC was ok for you in B2.

Rob- is pemasu's the same? I know you've been working on fprot for a long time.

Jim.. try the usb lib, attached
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#39 Post by tasmod »

Mick,

I saw F-prot as version 6 from pemasu after I had petted it myself. :(

I petted version 6.03 as on f-prot site, don't know if pemasu's is the same.

XF-prot version 2.4 , I don't know, I was unaware of the work done by pemasu. As you know I fixed Xfprot a long time ago and just continued on.

I left out the virus signatures as this kept size down. The user just pressed the update button and it downloaded latest anyway.

There is a problem with the icons which I noticed today, as i don't use it myself.
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#40 Post by tasmod »

Mick,

For a first start item, check out the additional software/utilities.

I rewrote firewallstate code over as a flag icon representing the keyboard country. Could be first run then deleted if wanted. It's about 35kb

EDIT: Typical, one typo and USA gets a French flag :lol: Fixed it 8)
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#41 Post by Jim1911 »

01micko wrote:Stripe- flSynclient-0.7 is in the repo, IIRC was ok for you in B2.

Rob- is pemasu's the same? I know you've been working on fprot for a long time.

Jim.. try the usb lib, attached
Tried it on main system, it successfully recognized and installed my HP C5280 Photosmart and I printed a test page after installation. :D

That was a quick fix.
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#42 Post by 01micko »

This is a list of the libs Barry recompiled without xcb which are likely to be problematic in Slacko

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boehm-gc-7.1-w5c.pet
cdrkit-1.1.11-w5c.pet
chmlib-0.40-w5c.pet
faad2-2.7-w5c.pet
gphoto2-2.4.11-w5c.pet
gtkam-0.1.17-w5c.pet
lame-398-2-w5c.pet
libdc1394-2.1.3-w5c.pet
libdvdcss-1.2.10-w5c.pet
libdvdnav-4.1.3-7-w5c.pet
libdvdplay-1.0.1-w5c.pet
libdvdread-4.1.3-9-w5c.pet
libgnomecups-0.2.3-w5c.pet
libgphoto2-2.4.11-w5c.pet
libsigc++-2.2.10-w5c.pet
libusb-1.0.8-w5c.pet
mktemp-1.7-w5c.pet
psmisc-22.14-w5c.pet
schroedinger-1.0.10-w5c.pet
unzip-60-w5c.pet
xsane-0.997-patched-w5c.pet
xvidcore-1.2.2-w5c.pet
If you have a problem there are corresponding libs in the wary5 and/or common repos on ibiblio, look for ones of similar version without w5c, [w5 is ok].
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#43 Post by 01micko »

Jim1911 wrote:
01micko wrote:Stripe- flSynclient-0.7 is in the repo, IIRC was ok for you in B2.

Rob- is pemasu's the same? I know you've been working on fprot for a long time.

Jim.. try the usb lib, attached
Tried it on main system, it successfully recognized and installed my HP C5280 Photosmart and I printed a test page after installation. :D

That was a quick fix.
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I knew it :wink: :D
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#44 Post by rcrsn51 »

Yes, including libusb-0.1 would help! I recall reading something about this in BK's blog.

[Edit] Since Slacko now has libusb-1.0, the better package to add is libusb-0.1-compat.

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#45 Post by 01micko »

rcrsn51 wrote:Yes, including libusb-0.1 would help! I recall reading something about this in BK's blog.
Oh it was there all right, just that "no-xcb" version from Barry's compile fest for wary/racy

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Uploading gutenprint-5.2.7

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... i486-s.pet 3.1M
dev, doc, and nls are at http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... es-slacko/

At the suggestion of an unnamed printing helper around here I am leaving gutenprint out of the main iso with a message to down load it from the Setup menu in PPM (not until B4 :wink: )

That will save 3M, but it is already spent mostly by broadcom.

edit:
Since Slacko now has libusb-1.0, the better package to add is libusb-0.1-compat.
praytell a version? link?
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#46 Post by rcrsn51 »

01micko wrote:Oh it was there all right, just that "no-xcb" version from Barry's compile fest for wary/racy
I looked in my puppy_slacko_4.99.5.sfs and couldn't see it.

If you installed the Canon scanner driver, you would have given it to yourself.

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#47 Post by rcrsn51 »

01micko wrote:edit:
Since Slacko now has libusb-1.0, the better package to add is libusb-0.1-compat.
praytell a version? link?
Here. My Canon pixma scanner backend is built this way - with libusb-compat-0.1 and libusb-1.0. However they claim that you can stick with the original libusb-0.1.
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#48 Post by 01micko »

rcrsn51 wrote:
01micko wrote:Oh it was there all right, just that "no-xcb" version from Barry's compile fest for wary/racy
I looked in my puppy_slacko_4.99.5.sfs and couldn't see it.

If you installed the Canon scanner driver, you would have given it to yourself.
ah I see what happened, Barry's package took out the older usb lib, I wonder if wary/racy has usb problems? woof issue

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yes|libtiff|libtiff|exe,dev,doc,nls
yes|libtool|libtool|exe>dev,dev,doc,nls
yes|libusb||exe,dev,doc,nls
yes|libusb1|libusb|exe,dev,doc,nls
yes|libvorbis|libvorbis|exe,dev,doc,nls
no|libvpx|libvpx|exe,dev,doc,nls
That is supposed to get the different versions.. but Barry's overwrote the slackware version
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#49 Post by rcrsn51 »

01micko wrote: I am leaving gutenprint out of the main iso with a message to down load it from the Setup menu in PPM (not until B4 :wink: ) That will save 3M, but it is already spent mostly by broadcom.
I just received a PM from a user suggesting that Puppy should include drivers for EVERY printer.

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#50 Post by 01micko »

I just received a PM from a user suggesting that Puppy should include drivers for EVERY printer.
Erm, wouldn't that double the size of the iso.. and then some? I don't think an OS that exists can ship with EVERY driver
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