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@twigboy - well, that's a first. Been downloaded hundreds (thousands?) of times & haven't had that happen - very occasionally it just doesn't work. Sorry that happened to you. As I said before, that wireless is a problematic chip in Linux.


So I started up live F96-CE4, popped in the new pet (k5 ...

mistfire wrote: Wed May 29, 2024 2:12 am

@twigboy

Did you try QuickPup64?

No, but I will soon. Thanks.

@twigboy - ah, you have 1 of the 'nasty 10' broadcom chips, needing a kernel-specific wl driver. I've made many.
See: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=10900#p10900
Install after appropriate download, by clicking on .pet in filemanager & when installed, try to connect.

For bluetooth ...

@twigboy - as Mike says above, firmware is the usual suspect & also need to check wifi adapter, via following:

Would you please run some tests to help us determine what driver/firmware you may need.
Open a terminal (console), please maximise it, then run the following (& post outputs here ...

@twigboy :-

Some info would help here. Can you run Pup-SysInfo for us (Menu->System->Pup-SysInfo system information); tab->Devices, then 'Network'.......and copy/paste the output in your next post, please?


Mike. ;)


▶—— Network Devices ——◀

Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group ...

Web browsers are about the only programs that seem to constantly need updating.
They usually have an internal update feature to do that.

Some info here that is good read for a new to Puppy user:
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewforum.php?f=184


I found that I could install the portable version ...

For WIFI and trackpad.
All of them are going to have slightly different ways to set these up.
You may not understand how to do it.

You need to understand one thing about posting on this forum.

We always need to know the specific Puppy version you are using.
Example:
BookwormPup tells us nothing ...

@twigboy

AMD 64-bit Turion

Is this a single core or a dual core (x2)? Will make a big difference.

You have a low power CPU and a small amount of ram, here is where I'd start:

F96CE_4, a newer 64bit distro with good memory management. I have this running on a low power dual core, 2gb ram ...

I'm looking over the offerings, which version, and perused the FAQ, looking for an answer to a simple question (it seems simple to me anyway):
Which flavor, which of the collection of Linux distributions, should I choose?

I don't see neatly displayed or easily found the requirements for each or ...

Ok, I missed it somewhere... how to upgrade to a newer version. I have pMusic 5.6.2 running on Bionic Beaver, the version for 32-bit pae -- 'cause it runs better on this old Dell Inspiron 1545 with 2Gb RAM. Anyway, will this newer version run on this Puppy? And do I just run the .pet and all will ...

The xautolock command would trigger the backlight on again, after the xset had turned it off, so I reverse the commands and added another bit of time to allow things to run smoothly (.5 seconds was too short to allow xautolock to finish):
#!/bin/sh
sleep .5
xautolock -locknow
sleep 1
xset dpms ...

Thank you very much. Works on my recent BionicPup64 (8.0). Already had xautolock installed and xlock configured with password. Set screener up to blank (turn off the display/standby turns off the laptop backlight) minutes before executing the screensaver (blank) and triggering the lock requiring the ...