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That is a really old network adapter (20 year old) . There may not be a driver for in BionicPup32. Fortunately you can load the WinXP drivers for it with the NDISWrapper in Dougals Network Wizard, if necessary.

https://drivers.softpedia.com/get/NETWORK-CARD/3COM/3Com-10-100-Managed-NIC-3C905CX ...

xenial wrote: Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:51 am

Do you have another 32bit puppy installed and running.?

?????
no

pcplague wrote: Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:54 pm

Check if the files are there, what's in the file bootconfig ?

thx plague, full install ok
something to do with frugal no doubt

new issue now tho with internet access,
does not configure dhcp dns & gateway servers, dhcp ip ok
opened another thread, plz check

configuration:
bionic puppy x32 latest on a athlon amd
3com 3c905 tornado ethernet pci adapter

issue:
ran the 3 puppy internet wizard options, frisbee, etc
with dhcp, gets ip, does not configure
gateway nor dns servers, therefore no access

goes without saying, other pcs/os configure fine

what ...

Installed puppy 32x v19.03 from cd to a 4TB sata drive
hanging from a sata pci port card ....

gparted to 2+2TB to sda1 ext4 boot & sda2 ntfs

installed puppy 32x using all defaults ...

grub starts, says it can't boot the kernel upupbb19.03frugal from (hd0,0), why ?

next,
boot puppy from cd puppy ...

darry19662018 wrote: Fri Jun 25, 2021 5:54 am

Hi,

Sometime ago I made a Bionic Pup with a retro series 3 kernel try this:
https://archive.org/details/bionicpup32 ... .138nonpae

thx Darry,
'toasted' a few cd's, doesn't boot, have no clue why,
what burner do you recommend ?

Exactly how are you doing the install?
Specific details!!
easy there, puppy ...
three times already, boot from cd distro bionic pup 19.03 32bit
Exactly how did you burn iso to the CD?
You would be surprised how many times people post about booting from a CD install.
To find out they did not ...

Whew, a P III??? Ok, that old CPU is going to be a challenge, but you might find one of the older Slacko Puppies
satisfactory, in regards to most things...web browsing will be a challenge due to limited RAM and lack of SSE.
Try downloading Slacko 6.3.2 from here : http://slacko.eezy.xyz/index ...

Whew, a P III??? Ok, that old CPU is going to be a challenge, but you might find one of the older Slacko Puppies
satisfactory, in regards to most things...web browsing will be a challenge due to limited RAM and lack of SSE.
Try downloading Slacko 6.3.2 from here : http://slacko.eezy.xyz/index ...

Answer the questions and we can give you some help?
easy there fella ....

You are installing it to what exact drive?
funny 'english,' puppy boots from a cd

USB, SD card, CD/DVD, Internal hard drive?
see above

Exactly how are you doing the install?
Specific details!!
easy there, puppy ...
three ...

@solarpuppy - Could be a modesetting issue with bionicpup32-19.03.
Try appending the following to your grub.cfg/syslinux.cfg kernel/linux line:
i915.modeset=0
Save updated .cfg file then reboot.


easy, puppy, calm down ...
options are on the boot menu,
including #, the only option that ...

he problem seems to be xwin/xorg being able to find the Intel
display correctly
How do you know for sure it is using some type of Intel graphics hardware?
Can you tell us for sure what the graphics hardware is?


thx bigpup, mobo says it, win xp too, manual,
and hardinfo Intel 82810E graphics ...

ozsouth wrote: Wed Jul 07, 2021 11:32 pm

@solarpuppy - Could be a modesetting issue with bionicpup32-19.03.
Try appending the following to your grub.cfg/syslinux.cfg kernel/linux line:
i915.modeset=0
Save updated .cfg file then reboot.

thx oz, cannot be done during installation

puppy 19-03 32bit hangs on xwin ...
console comes up ok, console commands ok

used xorgwizard to configure xorg.conf to vesa, 800x600, 16 bit
lowest rez, tried other resolutions, no go, screen goes black,
next is reset button

motherboard is Intel PIII, 512 MB Ram, Intel 82801 bridge
works ok with ...

bigpup wrote: Fri Jun 25, 2021 1:06 pm

If you can get to running xorgwizard.
Select vesa for the driver to use.

i did, tried all settings, vesa, low rez, etc,
no go, xwin starts, screen goes blank ...
is there a kb shortcut to exit xwin ?

kernel keeps running it seems ...

Yep good thought Mike - Details here: https://archive.org/details/pup4.311glibc2.19palemoon2.794sserev1

https://archive.org/download/pup4.311glibc2.19palemoon2.794sserev1/Phoenix4.31%282019%29v3.iso


thx Darry, pup 19.03 does not install a display for some reason,
finds the intel bridge 82801 ...

As above, an older pup is possibly better suited, Wary comes to mind....

But, if you boot to a prompt, you could run xorgwizard to choose your video settings


thx p310 ... i did, select vesa, 800x600, 16 bit, no go ..
xorg can't connect to server, can't find the graphics display ...

pup 19.03 ...

Some more background:
Running 32bit versions of Tahrpup, Xenialpup and Bionicpup on a Dell Lattitude D810 (Pentium M single core 32bit 2.0GHz) with 2GRam built in 2004.
Browser is Palemoon 28.16.0.

Starting about 4 weeks ago started noticing Youtube video preview pages were loading very slowly ...

Hi all,
Is there a 32bit browser for Tahrpup that has been updated to handle Youtube's Javascript changes? Seamonkey does not, Palemoon does not, Firefox does not, Chromium does not, etc.

There are still a lot of 32bit users that use 32Bit machines. Unfortunately Youtube javascript changes mean ...

If you can get to running xorgwizard.
Select vesa for the driver to use.


thx bigpup, xorgwizard runs ok,
vesa, 800x600, 16 bit ...


xwin/Xorg seems to start, screen turns black, no ctrl-c,
no way to stop it, hard reset next ...

is Xorg the only gi on this version ?

looks like Xorg was ...

Whew, a P III??? Ok, that old CPU is going to be a challenge, but you might find one of the older Slacko Puppies
satisfactory, in regards to most things...web browsing will be a challenge due to limited RAM and lack of SSE.
Try downloading Slacko 6.3.2 from here : http://slacko.eezy.xyz/index ...

hi all,
tried bionic puppy 32bit on an Intel Pentium III from Gateway model D810 desktop,
512MB ram, VGA ... installation seemed like it was going to work ok,
all daemons started ok,

... then it switched to a dark screen, and zap ... nothing

sounds like it was searching for a video card ?

i ...