Classic Pup 2.14X -- Updated 2 series

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#2241 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 18 Oct 2009, 09:07

mawebb88 wrote: No native rt2860sta module so used a pet (for the right kernel) someone posted earlier.

Rgds Mike

Here try this pet I just compiled for you

install then open a terminal and type
modprobe rt2870sta

ttuuxxx

#2242 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 18 Oct 2009, 09:50

I'm not too sure on the eeepcxorg.pet I made up, I tried it and xorgwizard wouldn't work, grrrrr, I had to add in 3 locations.
If it doesn't work for you, I'll try something else.
ttuuxxx

sullysat · #2243 Post by **sullysat** » Sun 18 Oct 2009, 14:30

Hey ttuuxxx, just to clarify, for the software archives, are these little pets and things like the eeepc tweaks going to end up in the final version or should I be setting them aside to post as well?

Thanks for this one BTW. My daughter currently has possession of my eeePC but it would be nice to load puppy on it at some point and keep it that way.

Sully

#2244 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 18 Oct 2009, 18:53

Hi Sully

If I was you I would wait until some sort of results/feedback comes back,
I really don't think that the xorg 1024x600 will work, but I have a feeling the driver should. lol
One of these days I think I might buy a eeepc. would make like a lot easier.
ttuuxxx

mawebb88 · #2245 Post by **mawebb88** » Sun 18 Oct 2009, 20:22

ttuuxxx wrote:
mawebb88 wrote: No native rt2860sta module so used a pet (for the right kernel) someone posted earlier.

Rgds Mike
Here try this pet I just compiled for you
install then open a terminal and type
modprobe rt2870sta

ttuuxxx

Installed your 2008_0918_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.8.0.0-i386.pet and finally the wireless scan works. Many thanks. But I ran into other problems. I could not get WPA working (even after adding rt2660sta to wag-profiles.sh) Tried manual commands which work fine in 412/431 but no joy. So reverted to WEP. For this again the wizard did not work but a script with the required stuff and put in the Startup folder now works fine.

BTW I had to put modprobe rt2860sta in /etc/rc.d/rc.local for a permanent loading of the module.

Good step forward and many thanks.
Rgds Mike

mawebb88 · #2246 Post by **mawebb88** » Sun 18 Oct 2009, 20:47

ttuuxxx

ok now you can thank me
Install this pet and then run Xorgwizard, I hacked in 1024x600 for you
enjoy ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx

Ok tried your eeepcxorg.pet. Installed ok. Ran the Xorg wizard but no joy as just kept dumping me at the # prompt. Tried several time with #xorgwizard but same result. #startx got me back to square 1.

Any futher suggestions for 1024x600?

Rgds Mike

BTW not sure what is in your pet but /root/.packages/eeepcxorg.files only has one line of /usr/sbin/xorgwizard

#2247 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Mon 19 Oct 2009, 10:51

Ok for all you samba guys I compiled the latest package with mountcif enabled its 31MB pet, Its pretty much complete minus the man pages and 1 locale, lol they only include one locale strange.
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 9-i386.pet

also compiled nbtscan
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... a-i386.pet

ttuuxxx

#2248 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Mon 19 Oct 2009, 11:14

mawebb88 wrote:ttuuxxx
ok now you can thank me
Install this pet and then run Xorgwizard, I hacked in 1024x600 for you
enjoy ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx
Ok tried your eeepcxorg.pet. Installed ok. Ran the Xorg wizard but no joy as just kept dumping me at the # prompt. Tried several time with #xorgwizard but same result. #startx got me back to square 1.

Any futher suggestions for 1024x600?

Rgds Mike

BTW not sure what is in your pet but /root/.packages/eeepcxorg.files only has one line of /usr/sbin/xorgwizard

can you try this network wizard? I reused parts from 430
ttuuxxx

davesurrey · #2249 Post by **davesurrey** » Mon 19 Oct 2009, 15:25

tuuxxx:

Ok for all you samba guys I compiled the latest package with mountcif enabled its 31MB pet

Thanks for that but at 31MB I'm a bit reluctant to add it unless I know just what this one should do better than/different from the one already in 214X15.

Any help appreciated.
Dave

tempestuous · #2250 Post by **tempestuous** » Mon 19 Oct 2009, 16:42

mawebb88 wrote:I could not get WPA working

I just updated the rt2860sta driver to the latest v 2.2.0.0 in the
"Extra drivers for Puppy 2 with 2.6.18.1 kernel" thread
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 239#316239
This driver was compiled with WPA encryption support.
And the wag-profiles.sh file is also updated, so that the rt2860sta driver will be recognised by the Wizard as compatible with WPA.

#2251 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Tue 20 Oct 2009, 07:32

Thanks tempestuous I'm still learning when with comes to drivers, So I'll have a look at your package

thanks once again
ttuuxxx

#2252 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Tue 20 Oct 2009, 07:35

davesurrey wrote:tuuxxx:
Ok for all you samba guys I compiled the latest package with mountcif enabled its 31MB pet
Thanks for that but at 31MB I'm a bit reluctant to add it unless I know just what this one should do better than/different from the one already in 214X15.

Any help appreciated.
Dave

Well dave the default one is olders and is a cutdown version, This one will have security updates, more features and comes with the full help documents. I won't be adding it due to the size, hmmm I might try to cut it down and see if it works on the weekend.
ttuuxxx

davesurrey · #2253 Post by **davesurrey** » Tue 20 Oct 2009, 10:15

Thanks ttuuxxx,

FWIW
The current one works fine (=don't need any more features) and I personally don't need any help files. I can always go to the net if necessary on setup/install but then I doubt I'd need that baggage afterwords. Security issues are always welcome though.

Yes a cutdown pet would be nice.

Cheers
Dave

Puppyt · #2254 Post by **Puppyt** » Tue 20 Oct 2009, 12:09

Cheers ttuuxx,

214X15 16Mb.

You can see that the stars are aligned for it? And/or I'm having a mug's shot at the "most foolhardy" title.
As I write your 214X15 is cheerfully ratcheting itself from a live CD onto a Satellite Pro 430CDS with 16Mb on-board EDO RAM and a 256MB swap on its original 1.3GB drive (pre-DMA).
I'm using the boot params of:

puppy pfix=noramsfs,nox acpi=off apm=on ide=nodma loglevel=7

...and I think I finally have worked around the dreaded Toshiba laptop-Xorg-XVesa perculiarities (more likely you had snuck in the CT65550 drivers already). Nonetheless I think that I might also have a go at remastering your 214X15 Greyhound-like and maybe petbegone a lot of applications etc, as I'm aware of - no, I have skimmed the forum - regarding the "success" of using puppy on sub-64Mb machines, and of the overheads demanded for X11 etc etc.
As the end-of-life role of the laptop will be as a stand-alone educational/entertainment centre I'll attempt removing the networking and related features etc to get the overall size down to a premium, putting/keeping in flash and java (shoots self in foot). Are there any applications that you recommend I simply should not touch? There is absolutely no rush in replying as I see you busy on at least 7 other projects and threads - I will post later to update my progress,

Many Thanks Again

P.S. I appreciated your efforts with FH301RetroLiteV2, and also with big bass' Fat-frees 3.01 and 2.17 - they didn't take me as far as yet as the 214X15 - here the taskbar is up with date and time - volume, blinky and freememapplet yet to appear, no background wallpaper or icons loaded yet - but it has only been cranking up over the last 3 hours- 120MHz Pentium and 10 X cd-rom ... Gloriously quick getting to the Xwin setup however, by comparison to some 15 other puplets and retros.
P.P.S. If I can just get a few applications up as proof-positive I WILL be getting the maximum RAM for the machine (48Mb! yay) and upgrading the HDD to a SD-IDE adapter...

mawebb88 · #2255 Post by **mawebb88** » Tue 20 Oct 2009, 18:22

@tempestuous and @ttuuxx

Many thanks for both your the latest efforts. I tried your latest ideas and this is what I found.

2008_0918_RT2860_Linux_STA_v1.8.0.0-i386.pet
This as I think I reported earlier at least gets the network scanning going although even adding rt2860sta to the wag-profiles.sh did not allow me to connect to my WPA router. Fortunately I have another router which I also run in parallel which us configured to WEP. Using a script I got connected:

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iwconfig ra0 essid NEUF_2F58
iwconfig ra0 mode managed
iwconfig ra0 key xxxx
iwconfig ra0 ap xxxx
iwconfig ra0 channel 11
ifconfig ra0 192.168.1.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
sleep 1
iwconfig ra0 key open

Nb I have replaced some actuals with xxxx

This is what I am using at this moment.

network-wizard-oct-430.pet
I tried ttuuxxx's network-wizard-oct-430.pet. This stopped the Network Wizard scanning working so never went any further.

RT2860-v2.2.0.0-k2.6.18.1.pet
Then I installed tempestuous's latest rt2860sta driver (RT2860-v2.2.0.0-k2.6.18.1.pet)with WPA support. I still could not get the wizard to connect to my WPA router. Ran through some commands I put in a script to see if I could find the problem.

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ifconfig ra0 up
rm /var/run/wpa_supplicant/*
wpa_supplicant -i ra0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
sleep 1
ifconfig ra0 xxxx netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
sleep 1
iwconfig ra0 key open

Doing each line from rxvt one at a time the line:

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wpa_supplicant -i ra0 -D wext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B

gives an error message of:
[SIOSCIWAUTH] Operation not supported.

(hope I got this right. How I wish I could copy/paste from rxvt to FF! Nothing works e.g. middle button etc as suggested on the forum elsewhere)

Nb. The wpa_supplicant.conf and the script are the same as I use all the time in 412 and 430.

So back to WEP (at least on 214x) using the first script indicated above.

Rgds Mike

Still to tackle:
1) 1024x600 screen resolution
2) Get sound to work

tubby · #2256 Post by **tubby** » Tue 20 Oct 2009, 18:37

Hi ttuuuxx, i have had problems with my wifi on this Toshiba Portege on all distros including yours apart from Dingo4, the work around i came up with was to install a couple of packages and add a symlink to the startup folder. How i managed it is at the following thread.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &start=285
I can now enjoy all of your efforts on this old laptop.

#2257 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Wed 21 Oct 2009, 10:24

mawebb88 did you try the alsa package I compiled, it might fix your sound issue
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/2.14series/alsa/
ttuuxxx

#2258 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Wed 21 Oct 2009, 10:57

Here 5 puzzle games I compiled, there were around 20 of them, but the others weren't so great, just open the file and click on a game anywhere
ttuuxxx

davesurrey · #2259 Post by **davesurrey** » Wed 21 Oct 2009, 11:26

ttuuxxx,
As you are around at the moment...two things.

1. It may have been when I installed hpliplite-3.9.8-mu-p4.pet for my HP printer (which works well) but I noticed I have the following directory structure:

/usr/share/ppd/gutenprint
/usr/share/ppd/HP
/usr/share/ppd/ppd (which says it is a symlink back to /usr/share/ppd)

So when I use Searchmonkey with "Follow symbol links" enabled, the bottom left of the screen flashes continually between /usr/share/ppd/HP.... and /usr/share/ppd/gutenprint, and I get multiple search results.
So it seems to be in an endless loop.

Never seen it do this with any other symlink.
Disabling "Follow symlink" and its okay again.

Is this sort of recursive symlink usual? If so I guess that's why the disable symlink option is there????

2. Do you intend to issue an RC or even final version of 214X this weekend? If you do would it be helpful to you if I made a list of the possible changes/updates?

Cheers
Dave

mawebb88 · #2260 Post by **mawebb88** » Wed 21 Oct 2009, 12:01

ttuuxxx wrote:mawebb88 did you try the alsa package I compiled, it might fix your sound issue
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/2.14series/alsa/
ttuuxxx

@ttuuxxx

Ok thanks I will give it a try. But which of these pets:

alsa-driver-1.0.20-i386.pet
alsa-firmware-1.0.20-i386.pet
alsa-lib-1.0.20-i386.pet
alsa-oss-1.0.17-i386.pet
alsa-plugins-1.0.20-i386.pet
alsa-utils-1.0.20-i386.pet

All of them?

Rgds Mike

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