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starhawk · Posted: Tue 19 Mar 2013, 22:50 Post subject:

Driver madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r4031-k2.6.25.16.pet works with Belkin F5D7010 ver.8 CardBus card, from thread here --> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34159

Unfortunately, this version of pUPnGO 2012+Extras doesn't have the SNS pet, and wireless.sh doesn't work right for me. I'll see if I can hunt down the SNS-Retro dotpet.

EDIT: Found SNS-Retro. Also installed the rtl8192cu driver from the thread in the link above -- last page (page 17), 1st post on that page.

Works with my Edimax USB Wireless-N card quite nicely!

Next step is to download a better browser. No offense meant, goingnuts, but Dillo is a rather ugly choice...

starhawk · Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 00:00 Post subject:

Now accepting recommendations for a better-than-Dillo GTK1 browser Wink

Even QtWeb requires GTK+. goingnuts, would it be possible at all for me to convince you to give me a pUPnGO-compatible dotpet of GTK+?

Tried --
QtWeb - FAILED because no GTK+.
Amaya - FAILED because libpng too new and glibc too old.
hv3 - FAILED - "/usr/bin/hv3: exec: line 2: wish: not found"

Any more suggestions...?

Ibidem · Joined: 25 May 2010 Posts: 553 Location: State of Jefferson

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4832 Location: Kingwood, TX

the combined version of hv3 should work fine and has at least some javascript support via libsee

I would have to recommend trying to build the framebuffer version of netsurf.
(the framebuffer can use xcb as a backend which is even smaller than tinyX11 and multithread capable)
recent development versions will build with javascript support via spidermonkey ... here is a link to the source of the last C-only version:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js-1.8.0-rc1.tar.gz
if you don't need javascript, netsurf-2.9 is still pretty good and also supports an xcb framebuffer (the bonus is that it can also use the linux framebuffer backend so you can use it outside of X also)

starhawk · Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 11:25 Post subject:

@Ibidem -- QtWeb demands libgobject-2.0. Google tells me that such is part of GTK+. My guess is/was that if it needed part of GTK+, it would likely need (or at least expect) all of GTK+.

@technosaurus -- make does some flamboyantly horrible things in my presence. I rather think I should stay well away from compiling -- particularly since pUPnGO still technically doesn't have a devx! (I'd have to use the P412 devx IIRC, and, considering that pUPnGO is so minimal as to have significant structural differences with mainline Puppies, I'm not sure how well that would go...)

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 909

starhawk: You are indeed a persistent person in terms of getting pupngo at work - thanks!
ath5k - maybe I remember wrong but I think I got it working in the past in P410 or P411 but it would not work in P412. As pupngo is quite P412-centric it might be worth looking at drivers from the other two?
Edit: No P410 and P412 ath5k.ko are identical so I did remember wrong...
Sound - nice reference! xhippo uses mpg123 or minimp3 - have you tried playing with those from command line? X hippo is quite extensible. Another CD-player is grib - "pretty" and you get a CD ripper on top...
Have you tried if pmvol works?

starhawk · Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 12:29 Post subject:

Seamonkey is probably the best choice, after all -- I want something that can access most webmail clients (QtWeb often has trouble with that) among other things.

Er... is there ANY chance of running Flash on this computer? Even the Flash7 version 'hacked' to lie about its age (lol) and claim that it's Flash 9?

Maybe there's a way to make it lie about being eg Flash 11?

starhawk · Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 12:31 Post subject:

To address the other points --

I'll give pmvol, grip, and links-2.7 their fair chance Razz

I don't see an attachment (yet?) for xmixer. EDIT: nvm, there it is.

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 909

Don´t know about flash but for web mail I prefer to use sylpheed - swift and lean - and kind of made for that stuff anyway.

starhawk · Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 12:55 Post subject:

Sorry, forgot to post system specs -- this is The Infernal Dell again...

Dell CPi D300XT
300MHz Pentium II CPU
128mb RAM
NeoMagic graphics
Dell Optical-Drive Bay Module "hacked" to use a Combo Drive instead of a 24x CD-ROM drive (a vast improvement over stock)
4gb (but fast!) CompactFlash "hard drive" (CF card in IDE adapter)
IIRC there's a swap partition but I've long forgotten what size.
EDIT: duh... pmconky told me, swap is 383mb /EDIT

So... Flash or no Flash, that is the question Laughing

EDIT2: stupid question -- now that I've stripped the *.bz2 off the end of the Seamonkey TAR files, how should I unTAR them? IIRC there are a lot of CLI options for that... what do I use?

goingnuts · Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 909

Do not know if its wise to remove the bz2...!
If inside pupngo play the guitar Very Happy

Normal commandline(tar.bz2): "tar -xjf XXX.tar.bz2"
if tar.gz: "tar -xzf XXX.tar.gz"
but there might be variants...

starhawk · Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 13:27 Post subject:

bzip2 = "invalid magic"

Redownloading.

EDIT: wonder where that tag came from...?

Also, duh on "invalid magic" as I *did* bunzip2 it earlier... a simple rename ain't gonna fix that!

starhawk · Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 13:48 Post subject:

OK, got Seamonkey 2 downloaded and un-TARBZ2'd. So where do I put the 'seamonkey' directory (it's in /mnt/home right now) and how do I 'install' it? Symlink something to something, I'm sure, but what?

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 912 Location: Staffordshire

starhawk

You can just copy libgobject to get QTWeb working. Doesn't need the rest of gtk+.
Posting from it on pupngo right now.

starhawk · Posted: Wed 20 Mar 2013, 14:40 Post subject:

oh

can you post it, please, so I don't have to go a-huntin'?