well thanks everybody, I just wanted to leave some feedback in case anyone needs it, I ended up installing lubuntu as I was told the software i was going to use wouldn´t work on puppy anyway, the ethernet card was damaged, when booting it says that chip is not responding, and the booting error on ub...

Thank you Galbi! may I ask why that one?

Hi again!

well I´ve been trying to locate the .sfs files to compile the driver as Oscar said, but i could only get the "devx_wary_5.5.sfs" can anybody help me to get the "kernel_sources.sfs" for the wary 5.5? i´ve looked into ibiblio but is not there (or I couldn´t find it)

Galby, the only thing I need is to be able to edit a google sheets document, do yuit think it will work?

And Oscar thanks for the advice, I think the card is ok so I'll try to compile the .ko, i'll tell you how it goes...

Hi Everyone! I´ve succesfully loaded the Wary 5.5, I think the problem with the other distros has something to do with the video card, as puppy lets me choose the Vesa and that works, but the ethernet is still dead, I can load some realtek 8139cp and a 8139too modules but none of them work... any ad...

well I´ve tried the Precise puppy 5.7.1 but I have a problem and that´s the same problem i had when tried to run other distros, when "loading kernel modules..." it shows some characters as loading ^[[A^[[A^[[A^[[A but then some kind of error happens and the screen fills up non legible char...

Great!! That's the kind of advice I was Looking for I'll try the precise retro and will tell you how it goes.

Best regards to all of you!

smokey01 wrote:Pup 4.20 is quite old now.

I suggest you try a more modern pup like tahrpup 6.0.5 or slack 6.3.0. If your computer is 64bit, maybe try Fatdog 710.

Hi Smokey, thanks for your help, but as I told you the computer is pretty old, a Pentium 4 with 512 on ram, will it work with unetbootin?

Hi Everyone! This is my first post and serious linux installation (I´ve tried a few times in the past, with no success, this time I really want to do it), and I was wondering if anybody can please help me, I´ve been looking for a solution for 2 days but I guess with the wrong question, so here is my...