Try boot option acpi=off or acpi=force Try with live CD At boot screen hit F2 key enter option Puppy acpi=off or puppy acpi=force acpi=off did the trick. It runs flawless now, thanks! You can also add that to the initrd line in syslinux config on a flash drive or the kernel line in a grub hard driv...

bigpup wrote:Try boot option

acpi=off
or
acpi=force

Try with live CD
At boot screen hit F2 key
enter option
Puppy acpi=off
or
puppy acpi=force

acpi=off did the trick. It runs flawless now, thanks!

I have a Dell computer, but neither poweroff or reboot is okay.

When shutting down or rebooting slacko 5.3.3 after first boot it hangs at "Putty linux is shutting down..." and i have to use the powerbutton to power off. This happens both when saving and not saving to usb, or even using a liveCD. When saving to usb the saved filesystem i ruined when try...

I'll report it,

thanks for your help anyway

Yes, I've tried 5.3.1 which shut down just fine. However my wifi did not work in that version.

I get the same result when exiting to prompt.

Specs:
Processor: IntelCore i7-2670QM @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 8GB
Graphic: Gforce GTX 560M
Wifi: Atheros Ar9300 Driver: ath9k
USB: 2GB

When shutting down or rebooting slacko 5.3.3 after first boot it hangs at "Puppy Linux is shutting down..." and i have to use the powerbutton to power off. This happens both when saving and not saving to usb, or even using a liveCD. When saving to usb the saved filesystem i ruined when try...

rcrsn51 wrote:

Slacko 5.3.1

Slacko 5.3.3 is built on a newer kernel. It might work better.

Thank you! Works great now

I'm running Slacko 5.3.1 on a 2gb USB. Puppy recognizes my wireless interface as Athros ar9300 using the driver ath9k which appers to be right. But when doing ifconfig wlan0 up either in console or through one of the wifi applications I get the error: ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested ...