(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

BTW, has anyone recently mentioned that tempestuous ROCKS!?... Smile

he has always been the puppy linux world's top banana when it comes to wifi (and other things for that matter)

a toast to 'the man'

ps I still have 2.02 regression...the fasted pup in the west.

mike

mikeb wrote:

BTW, has anyone recently mentioned that tempestuous ROCKS!?... Smile

he has always been the puppy linux world's top banana when it comes to wifi (and other things for that matter)

a toast to 'the man'

ps I still have 2.02 regression...the fasted pup in the west.

mike

I've settled on 5.28 for the time being. It seemed to have lower hardware load than 4.31, and much better hardware support... Damn solid product!

(someone once said that if I started running Puppy that I'd never get back to playing with Debian... )

RetroTechGuy wrote:

tempestuous wrote:For wifi troubleshooting, see the first post of
"Drivers for Puppy 5.1-5.2.8 with 2.6.33.2 kernel"
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59000

BTW, has anyone recently mentioned that tempestuous ROCKS!?...

"ROCKS" is an is an extreme understatement.
We are really fortunate to have someone like him to help with
wireless problems that haven't even been solved by the largest
linux distros.

mikeb wrote:I still have 2.02 regression...the fasted pup in the west.

Ah, that's good to hear, though you will come unstuck if you try to add a very new accessory device, such as a Realtek wifi dongle, for example.
The Puppy 2.00/2.02regression kernel is too old for modern drivers to compile against.

For speed and lightness, though, the Puppy 1.03 - 1.09 series was even better. Worked a treat with my (now dead) Sony VAIO Pentium 1 laptop.
Again, no support in that old Pup for modern hardware.

Puppy 1.03 - 1.09 series was even better

ok I dare not mention the simplepup I have based on 1.08 ... get even faster performance but my usb modem and wifi were not an option.

I did cheat and change the kernel in 2.02 to 2.6.18 as the original had a unionfs quirk which meant deleted files reappearing but performance remained. I put it down to the Xorg / X 6.8 and early gtk 2 and of course plenty of gtk1 apps. The included mplayer finished the show and a neat firefox 1.5. I did build the realtek rt3070sta driver on that kernel but normally the older pups are around for nostalga, testing ideas and the occasional rollar coaster ride on a speedy base (and small too 60MBsfs)

cheers

Mike

tempestuous:

Sir Tempe is one of the Puppy giants.

Chris.

Sir Tempe is one of the Puppy giants.

Posts: 5000

and its his birthday


mike

mikeb wrote:

Sir Tempe is one of the Puppy giants.

Posts: 5000

and its his birthday


mike

Woohoo!