Hmmm, not finding my slackosave file, I believe it saves back to the flashdish so anything just takes up space, max space left on drive is 47 meg, so not a good thing, the pc has a max of 256 Meg flash disk on module and 512 Meg ram. Will have to look at a cut down install to remove things like writ...

:cry: Hi Mike and 01micko I manually installed perl URI, LWP, Time and possibly HTTP directores by copying across from the Suse box to puppy directories last night well into the early hours. None of that lot is recognised by the check dependences program I think the HTML directory was the only one I...

I have experimented by copying the perl script over to my Suse box and placing in my home directory /home/adrian/psms1 runs the script and I get a message back from the sms gateway and my phone gets a text message. So the problem is definitely with my puppy box. My manual install of missing perl mod...

Question on using perl within puppy, I have used a perl script provided by a sms gateway proiver, but have no success in accessing the sms gateway. They say my request is never arriving and to check my server/router etc. The PC can browse to the location or around the net fine, so from that I am ass...

Thanks

I promise to be more careful

Adrian

Duh extremely dim, but how do I get it back, I clicked on remove item without thinking thought I was emptying contents.

Cheers

Adrian

I had a read of some wiki document and also playing around with multimeter and resisters. Decided to play safe with the computer. BIOS is set for EPP. I set the data pins all high with parashell 0x378 255. Looking at pins 2 to 9 (D0 to D7) all are sat at around 3.3 Volts. Then I tried to pull them d...

There is a package called parashell that allows script control of the parallel port. I found an old thread aon it here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=46135&sid=49c30ee9091d57b190c5ed84155e5ee7 I assume the mods needed in that post are still the same for the latest version 2.3,...

I think we need chat! what I was planning on was a simple interface to the parallel port with a pull up resister (or pull down) and then a single input or inputs to set bits. the have a console line thats reads the port and gives and answer. I am not sure if possible but something like readlpt and g...

Just lost a reply, thought I sent it, never mind sure it will turn up! 01miicko I have searched for sms gateways here in the UK and think for the cost of a few UKP for a hundred of so texts I will pay the price, a few of them have a developers contact so I plan to send an email or two to describe wh...

Your help and that of anyone else is greatly appreciated mike, I will be asking lots on here to get my project complete.


Cheers

Adrian

I note my header is now solved, thanks to whoever did this I should have done it myself

I have seen a few programs for outputting to the parallel port, but not something simple to read the port. I know that the port has 8 bits typically pins 2 to 9. What i would like to do is have a simple latching relay or closing contact across a pin or pins and detect it within a script or command l...

I have a script added to rc.local that now runs up the audio packages icecast darkice and rsound, thanks to help from mikeb in the forum help section.

Now to think on what is needed to page me if help is needed, thinking of trying to find a sms gateway, or similar to phones.

Adrian

I used sleep starting up from 1, 2, 3 etc sleep 3 was a bit hit and miss, sleep 4 seems to have been reliable so I have used sleep 5. Just going through a continuous retry but looks as though it is an answer to my problem thanks mikeb for your help. Hi Oscar, Good idea, I have just tried darkice bef...

Mike I was just typing another effort when my email pinged so just tried rc.local as #!/bin/sh #this file called from rc.sysinit #you can edit this file #When firewall is installed, will append lines to this file... icecast -c /etc/icecast.xml & rsd & darkice -c /etc/darkice.cfg & and st...

Hi Mike; I have re-arranged then within rc.local so that it runs ice first, the sound then dark and still no change Ice and sound run (rsd). Icecast uses the network connections so I have assumed that must be up before hand. Do you mean change rc.local so that it is as follows: #!/bin/sh #this file ...

I have also tried a few more things by adding #!/bin/sh as the first line in rc.local and ensured that the file is executable, and got the same results, still no darkice running.

Cheers

Adrian

I am getting partial success. I think it may be a timing issue with a command starting too soon but do not know how to prove or correct. in the directory /etrc/rc.d is the file rc.local I have modified its contents as below #this file called from rc.sysinit #you can edit this file #When firewall is ...

This project is keeping my mind active, teaching me a few things on computing and Linux so not all bad. The idea is to have a computer, small and low powered at one location, that is capable of streaming audio to a computer at another, to act as a sort of monitoring or intercom system if needed betw...

openssh-server was installed from the package manager and I saw no prompts to enable or change settings when installing it. I have tried to find in /etc the sshd folder but not found it. I have looked ion the Boot Manager to manage system services and ssh is already ticked, but I assume this is the ...