Precise Puppy 5.5, released March 9, 2013

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BarryK
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#121 Post by BarryK »

Just in case anyone is reading this thread and not aware that Precise 5.6 is released, it is.

The forum thread for 5.6 is here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 724#704724
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]

MalKontent
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My stubborn HD TV finally works in 1920x1080

#122 Post by MalKontent »

Hi BarryK, All,

The rewritten Xorgwizard and (new?) ATI driver in Precise 5.6 finally accomplished, what no other version could - I was able to force our large-screen HD TV to show full HD resolution when driven from Linux.

It has a stupid (or is it "too inteligent"?) Realtek chip inside, which over the VGA connector suggests 1360x768 as the maximum resolution, and over HDMI (conncted to a DVI port) introduces itself in such a way, that 1024x768 is the "optimum" resolution, whereas the maximum attainable on any small Linux distro I tried was 1360x768.

This puppy finally did the trick, and we can enjoy the full HD resolution, which is what I expected in the first place, having bought a 55" TV meant as a messageboard.

Thank you guys!!! :) I almost gave up and considered installing Windows on this machine :oops:

DPUP5520
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#123 Post by DPUP5520 »

Hey Barry,

Loving the new Precise but just noticed one problem. Since Precise 5.5 been having a problem again where if I let my laptop sit for more than two minutes it disconnects from my wireless network and I have to reconnect it again.

Wireless interface
/0/100/1c.1/0


product: Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 [8086:87]
vendor: Intel Corporation [8086]
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 5f
serial: 00:23:15:69:38:d4
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities:
Power Management,
Message Signalled Interrupts,
PCI Express,
bus mastering,
PCI capabilities listing,
ethernet,
Physical interface,
Wireless-LAN
configuration:
broadcast: yes
driver: iwlwifi
driverversion: 3.2.44
firmware: 41.28.5.1 build 33926
latency: 0
link: yes
multicast: yes
wireless: IEEE 802.11abgn
resources:
irq: 44
memory: d5800000-d5801fff

(Same issue with 5.6)
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redandwhitestripes
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#124 Post by redandwhitestripes »

So if anyone had the same problem that I discussed earlier with broadcom wifi, here's my solution.
With help from peebee I checked my correct driver from the 3 choices
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewt ... 0e8#702630

I saw the one Precise chose for me was wrong (wl), so I went to menu>>system>>bootmanager and 'blacklisted' it. I rebooted and connected via frisbee, voila! :D

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#125 Post by Sage »

menu>>system>>bootmanager
Thanks for that reminder of how to do blacklisting. Couldn't find the earlier thread anywhere. This (and other) Forum needs an index, ie not just Search.

redandwhitestripes
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#126 Post by redandwhitestripes »

Sage wrote: Thanks for that reminder of how to do blacklisting. Couldn't find the earlier thread anywhere. This (and other) Forum needs an index, ie not just Search.
It was this.... :D
redandwhitestripes wrote:I posted this under the " Broadcom-STA "wl" wifi drivers - repository of latest" forum but as there's been no reply after 36 hours, I hope it's OK to copy it here, as I'm so keen to upgrade my Puppy.




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OK this seems as good a place as any to ask for help.

My broadcom driver is :

10:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01

2.6.33.2 SMP mod_unload modversions 486

I'm using lupu_525 on a full hard disk install.
Have been doing so for a while wtth no problems, when I set it up I installed the broadcom-5.10.27.14-k2.6.25.16.pet as I did with all previous puppies and all was fine.

Today I tried running precise 5.5 on a live CD and the weird thing is that it
sees my neighbours' wi-fi networks but not my own! No clue atall.
Some neighbours are using WPA2, just like me.

When I go back to my full install, everything is fine again.

Can anyone suggest why this might be and what I need to install/uninstall?


EDIT: I scanned this thread and installed the closest pet I could find (Precise 5.2 version) but I get an error message "incorrect kernel for this data".

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