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Our house decided to change Internet service and thus needed to change the
WIFI SSID and password in all our devices including our old version 1
Chromecast gadget.

(Note: Google has discontinued the Chromecast line of digital media
players on August 6, 2024.)

I tried searching for how to change ...

Thank you both Jasper and dimkr for both your long term Puppy support and for your more recent support on my own Dell Latitude 7490 laptop which has only a micro SDCARD slot (I never had a PC with such a slot before, let alone trying to boot Puppy on it.)


If there's a distro that boots fine on ...

Try this.

On the SD card will be the config file for the boot loader menu.
I will assume it is going to be grub.cfg file.
Open this file in a text editor.
Look in the entries for a pmedia=cd
Change this to pmedia=usbflash
Save the change.

Now try to boot with it.


Hi Bigpup:

There are a ...

Updated binaries for initrd.gz

Busybox 1.35
e2fsck 146.2

BACKUP your existing file first!!!

I have zipped this up as a *.tar.x file.

Extract and you will find in the directory

initrd.gz

Copy and replace the existing file in the fossapup64 directory hosting your SFS core files

For ...

It's a new laptop.................... use a newer kernel :roll:

https://www.dell.com/en-gb/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/new-latitude-7490/spd/latitude-14-7490-laptop


Hi Jasper:

This linked Dell webpage is definitely for some very new Latitude laptops,
but the webpage says "7490 ...

In a earlier post, I reported difficulty trying to boot fossapup64_9.5 on a Dell Latitude 7480/7490 laptop from micro SDCARD. (I felt I should have reported this issue in a new post.)

In this post, I am attaching a picture of the error message when I have attempted that.

(However, since I have ...

Hi Jasper:

So, for more clarification @oldaolgeezer,

In your BIOS can you provide a device list?
.....does it include 'Generic SD/MMC.... reader'?

No, it does not:
On my Dell Latitude 7480/7490 when powering up, the function key F12 displays the boot
choices (my Dell BIOS seems to call it "PCIE ...

(It seems that the hardinfo utility shows that my motherboard is a 7480 but the laptop's
Dell sticker on the plastic case bottom shows: 7490. Other people seem to have this also.)

I wanted to boot and use my Dell Latitude 7480/7490 laptop with its built-in
micro SDCARD slot. (Especially since ...

I have never used any of the major Linux distributions, so I might share
some of my early stumbling attempts to use ManjaroPup64:
(I have already shared how some reviews of Puppy Linux on Distrowatch by experienced
Linux distros users were puzzled how to proceed after booting our Puppy Linux
for ...

Hi mistfire:

I thought I might try your ManjaroPup64 24.01 BETA 3 "Experimental Distro"
as my own first attempt at using any of the major Linux distros:

I downloaded your distro and decided to try it on my HP G70-463CL laptop
(Core2Duo T6500 2.10 GHz, 4 GB memory) which normally legacy boots ...

I am looking for smarter people than myself to comment on some entries on reddit about Linux ISO's on certain laptops with a camera and their slight extra battery usage with pipewire:
(For myself, I believe this might only apply to my newer Bookworm Puppy.)

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments ...

Hi Mikewalsh and Wiz57:

Firstly, I don't have any modern wireless 'mini' keyboard(s) !

But I assume, even for wireless dongle or bluetooth keyboards, the key code
is captured and then "sent" thru the evdev logic.

But while we waiting for someone more knowledge than me, I might suggest a
plan ...

On this PC, my print screen key did not start a screen capture.

Other owners of similar HP Pavillion dv6 PC's also reported the same issue:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1295994/comments/27
and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug ...

Getting BookwormPup32 23.12 to work on my old IBM X41 32 bit laptop

(Thank you peebee, radky, dimkr, rockedge and others
for BookwormPup32-23.12-240621.)

I downloaded the BookwormPup32 23.12 iso, modified the X41's menu.lst file
(see below) and booted it up:

title
root

title BookwormPup32 ...

Hi ETP:

I enjoy your Global IP TV Panel and have run it today (after an update
to youtube-dl and & latest 2024MK2 pet) with BookwormPup64_10.0.6

It seems today I had a problem only with DW News:

# pwd
/root/noob
# ls -la
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 May 25 07:30 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root ...

After pondering my CUPS BOOKWORM issue for days, I thought I'd might try to follow
in the footsteps of Fossapup64's Ubuntu printing method (thanks 666philb) which worked
for my old Canon MX340 printer:
(I noticed that with Fossapup64, my printer was listed by CUPS as
not just "CUPS" but "CUPS ...

(At this time of year I print my filled in Form 1040 spread sheet on
my old Canon MX340 inkjet printer connected to my Puppy Linux PC via
a USB cable. I have been doing this for several years using FossaPup64.
My PC is a: Dell Inspiron 3646 Small Desktop, CPU J2900 Pentium 2.41 GHz, 4 GB memory ...

It seems Western Digital has a webpage (built maybe around June 2023 per
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/sandisk-extreme-ssds-keep-abruptly-failing-firmware-fix-for-only-some-promised/?comments=1&comments-page=4)
for the possible firmware update for a firmware issue that can cause ...

Using an earphone with Bookworm_Pup64_10.0.4 on a Dell Latitude 5490 laptop:

(I wish to thank all the members of the BW64 development team.)

I have been trying my Dell Latitude 5490 laptop with
Bookworm_Pup64_10.0.4 Puppy.

During my recent tests, I plugged in my earphones and tried some
news ...

NTFS format and no boot flag but bootable via UEFI

I have been putting Puppy Linux on a "new to me" Dell Latitude 5490 laptop. (It came
with no memory nor any storage drives.)

I got some DD4 memory and an inexpensive Micron PCIe Gen4 NVMe 256 GB internal
Solid State drive and put it into the ...

Thanks to radky, dimkr, rockedge, ozsouth and many others for Puppy Bookworm.

When Booting Puppy Linux on my only UEFI PC, a Dell Inspiron 15 (3552),
I tried to make few changes to Windows (turning off "secure boot"
and setting "hibernate" to "off")
https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php ...

I have been looking at all the forum activity with Bookworm Pup64 10.0.3
but until recently it has been too technical for an oldgeezer like me.

Recently, I saw a post suggesting that rockedge make Bookworm (because of its
now polished code) to be an official release on puppylinux.com.
Thanks to ...

Hello rockedge:

Firstly, I, myself, haven't noticed any slow down of the "new forum".

I have noticed that at the bottom left on the "old forum" page, on recent days, there
were often hundreds of users online (I think more than 500 yesterday) !

I just noticed a big change today with only 40 or so ...

Hi rockedge:

I'm not sure that this has anything to do with "new Forum" slowness, but I have noticed
that at the bottom left on the "old forum" page, daily and fairly often, there seems to
be hundreds of users online !

I think weeks or months ago, I seem to remember seeing only 30 or so users ...

Hi mouldy

I might report that since January of 2023, Amazon has made several changes
in their ebook environment which, as I understand it, apply to both
encoding of ebook files and requiring Kindle reading devices and
their software be able to communicate with Amazon servers on a continuing ...

Possible SanDisk Extreme SSD issues

Note: This may only apply to certain SanDisk Extreme SSD's,
maybe only with a certain manufacturing date, etc.

FYI:

SanDisk Extreme SSDs from Ars Technica:

"SanDisk only confirms 4TB troubles.
by Scharon Harding - 5/19/2023"

"Ars saw two 2TB units become ...

Will the third Microsoft patch of secure boot in 2024 render
Linux (and Puppy) unbootable on newer patched PCs ?

From arstechnica.com:

... the new fix, partly because, unlike many high-priority Windows fixes,
the update will be disabled by default for at least a few months
after it's installed ...

After pulling some of my old Android tablets out of a desk drawer (and
charging them up), I found that they could not browse the web !
Their old original version of their web browser (named browser),
did not let any websites display !

A google search with my Puppy PC, told me my old tablets had ...

Hi stemsee:

I just found one of these today and have been trying it out
with my existing software.

When I first tried Puppy Linux by plugging the Ugee m708 Graphics Tablet in,
I didn't think its USB was discovered ?

So, I tried Windows 10 on the same PC and the Ugee m708 Graphics Tablet was ...

Adding blank lines in GRUB2 menus

I only have one UEFI GRUB2 PC, but I found I could insert
blank spacing lines in my grub.cfg file on my
bootable USB drive with this entry:

menuentry ' '{
true
}

On this one UEFI GRUB2 PC, I keep all my Puppy iso files on my C:\ hard drive
and my small bootable ...