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Working Laptops

Hardware

Acer aspire 1350:
Puppy 1.0.2 - sound card doesn't work.
Puppy 1.0.3 - reboots instead of shut down, sound card works, couldn't get cd burner to work properly.

Acer aspire 1355XC, 256MB RAM/XP-M2600+:
Puppy 1.0.7 - sound OK, DVD playback poor, (may be disc), wireless with PCMCIA D-link DWL-610 OK, not tried CD writing.

Acer Aspire 1613LMi: 3.06GHz 512MB, video & sound working right off (also 1400x1050). Only one CPU is recognized with defaut kernel.

Acer Travelmate 240:I was able to boot 1.0.7 on an ACER Travelmate 240 using the built-in Ethernet (wire) but had to run the Ethernet config wizard. The mouse pad works when configured as a PS/2 (no wheel emulation) and video operates at 1024x768-24.

AJP 2100P: P2-300/256MB/4GB.

AST Acenia M Series: 233mhz/64meg Ram/3.2 HD/CDrom/Ext Floopy/Netgear FA511 using tupil driver. Working (sound not-working Crystal CS4237) Puppy make it run.

ASUS L8400B: 550MHz Celeron, 192MB ram, DVD drive, 20GB HDD, USB mouse. Aureal 8810 sound does not work (Aureal went broke).

Compaq Armada 1500c: Works fine, but no sound :( I guess it doesn't recognize the soundcard. [Add snd-es1688 to /etc/modules.]

Compaq Armada M700: Everything works except for the keyboard mouse pointer (NaNoWriMo Linux built on Puppy).

Compaq Evo N 11O: I found that it was effective for booting from a USB CD WRITER using the wakeup program.. It managed to find my usb sandisk 128MB but refused to boot from it.

Compaq Presario 17XL7xx: 750MHz 384MB RAM blah blah blah, everything works good :)
Compaq Presario 1277: 192 meg ram sharing 8 meg for video (maxed out)
60 gig hdd (upgraded from 4.2 gig) all other internals stock
Netgear wg511u a, b, g pcmcia wifi card working (atheros chipset)
Intellinet wireless g pcmcia wifi card not yet working (backup card if i can get it working)
Cheap usb hub allowing the 1.1 usb to run the following:
Logitech usb optical mouse with working scroll wheel
Liteon 52-32-52 cd r-rw-w burner (suppose to run on usb2.0 so it burns slowly, but hasn't missed yet)
80 gig usb hdd
A half gig usb flash drive also works

From puppy v2.10 on have been able to do full hdd installs (v2.02 hdd install would not boot)

Compaq Presario V3117LA: (Full product specs∞)
(Puppy 2.16) some probs with xorg (Nvidia GeForce on board graphics) & wireless (broadcom), otherwise OK.

HP Compaq nc6220: Pentium M 1.73GHz cpu, 512Mb DDR2 RAM, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900, 60Gb Toshiba hdd, DVD/CD burner combo, Broadcom NIC, 3 x USB ports, Synaptic mouse touchpad.

All working exceptionally well with multiple versions of Puppy 2.xx - haven't been able to install Puppy 1.09CE but then I haven't tried very hard either. Can't vouch for the AMD versions. Sorry.

Dell Latitude D610: 2.0 Ghz Pentium M with 2GB RAM.
Puppy 1.0.4 - Works great but, still trying to boot from USB. jerry@pentego.com

Dell Latitude D610: 1.8 Ghz Pentium M with 512 GB RAM.
Puppy 2.12 - Works great. To have the wireless working you need to use the ndiswrapper with the bcmwl5 windows driver. Everything else worked out of the box.

Dell D600: 1.6GhzPentium M/52MB 1024x768@24.
Puppy 1.0.2 (kernel 2.6.11.7) - Sound works. My EVDO card is not recognized 8-(.

Dell Latitude Cpi 88: 366mhz/256m ram/512mb cfcard/ide-adapter with usb-install network via dock, video & sound working right off.

Dell Latitude C640: 1.7GHz ram/512mb Both with the integrated network port and wireless Linksys WPC11 Ver 2.0 video, sound and network working right off. Kernel 2.4.x works perfect with NTFS. Kernel 2.6.0 corrupts NTFS. Cannot set BIOS to boot from USB.

Dell Latitude LS: Pentium III 300, 128M Ram, 12GB HD. HD install. All Hardware functional. The only Distro/OS that runs quickly and efficently on this machine.

DELL Inspiron 2650: 1.0gb Celeron/384MB ram/CDRW/Lucent Ethernet PCMCIA. Works great! Problem recognizing Windows attachen network printers. Love it!

DELL Inspiron 5100: 2.66Ghz Celeron/512MB ram/DVD-ROM. Works from a CDR but not from a USB drive. From USB I get the SYSLINUX version tag but the vmlinuz and image.gz don't load.

DELL Inspiron 630m: puppy2.12 centrino processor /1GB ram/DVD +/- RW. Running from multi-session DVD R+. Sound works well including headphone jack, haven't tried microphone. Quick test of card reader, MUTdidn't show anything, I didn't explore further. I haven't tried the modem.

DELL Inspiron 9200: 2.00Ghz Centrino/1GB ram/CDRWDVD/Built-in Ethernet & WIFI.
Puppy 2.10-2.14 - Works fine, used ndiswrapper for wireless.

DELL Inspiron 9300: 1.7gb Centrino/1900x1200@16/1GB ram/CDRWDVD/Built-in Ethernet & WIFI.
Puppy 1.0.3 - Works fine, could not figure out how to connect via WiFi; did not try audio.
Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D7830 has worked with all puppy versions from 2.11 to Puppy 4 dingo

Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook C345: P2-266/64MB/3GB/24xCD/USB/2xPC-Card. Worked just fine. No autom sound. do a modprobe sb.
Fujitsu Lifebook 780Tx:P1-233 MMX 800x600 64Mb Ram 3Gig Disc Puppy 2.01 Seamonkey. Netwoking fine using Asus 107G card with ndiswrapper. Built-in mouse not seen so have to use external PS/2 mouse
Gateway NX200s: It works nicely on the Gateway NX200s, I tried several distros and this laptop is linux friendly. I use the 915resolution patch to get 1280x768x24 resolution.

Gateway Solo 2500: P2-333/96MB/6GB/10xCD/USB/PCMCIA stuff. Took a little "tweaking" but now works GREAT (2.11)!!

-HP Omnibook XE2: Puppy 2.1 worked out of the box. Straight install from CD. Used Xorg 1024x768x16. All good.

HP Pavilion N5470: AMD Athalon 4, 512MB RAM, 20GB hard drive, DVD-CDRW, 2xUSB1.1 ports, internal modem, internal network adapter. Windows XP on hard drive. Cruzer Mini 1GB thumb drive. No option in BIOS for USB boot.
Works Great with Chubby Puppy 1.0.4 and seems to work great with Puppy 1.0.5RC, more details on my Wiki page

HP Pavilion N5490

HP Pavilion ze4200: There's a BIOS problem on this machine. If using a 2.4 series kernel, you *must* disable the Legacy USB support.

HP Pavilion zv6278ae: Boot with "acpi=strict acpi=noirq pci=biosirq pci=nosort irqpoll routeirq". Wifi working with ndiswrapper and Win driver. Flash memory reader not working, up to now (Puppy 2.13 with 2.6.18.1 kernel). Modem untested. Allright the rest.

Hyrican: with SIS Twister Savage chipset

IBM Thinkpad 380Z: Recognizes CD, pcmcia-netcard. See-s embedded keyboard joystick-mouse + external mouse.
- added "modprobe -v cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0" to line 138 of /etc/rd.1/rc.local0 for full soundcard support. (yep!)

IBM Thinkpad 390E: Linksys WPC11 V4 Booted from CD, worked except Wireless, added in wifi-beta, wlan, etc. Installed to hard drive with boot floppy.

IBM Thinkpad 600: After flashing/updating bios, recognized cd, installed great, set up mouse and found wireless pci with minimal effort. Now runs installed on this Pentium II processor. Installed version 4.0 via cd.

IBM Thinkpad 600X: Recognizes CD, external FDD, USB, sound, modem, pcmcia-pccard-cardbus nic, ps/2 mouse. Doesn't see embedded keyboard joystick-mouse. Quick, clean, new life for older laptop ... now on to the 600E!

IBM Thinkpad 560Z: 128M, 6GB HD, no CD or floppy; xf86_svga; cs4237B sound; DWL-650 and DWL-g630. Hard-drive install. Surprisingly quick. See forum for details on install.

IBM Thinkpad 600E: Linksys WPC11 V4 with the wifi dotpup. Disable "quick boot" in bios to enable sound. See forum. Puppy 1.0.4.
IBM Thinkpad 600E: 1.0.9ce alsa works after adding (options snd-cs4236 isapnp=0 cport=0x538 port=0x530 sb_port=0x220 fm_port=0x388 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0) to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

IBM Thinkpad 770z: Orinoco gold classic wifi. After a minor sound config. [ modprobe cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9 synthirq=5 synthio=0x388]

IBM Thinkpad A22p: 384Mb RAM, 1GHz PIII; Sound, works without issue, ACPI sleep works with [ echo -n mem > /sys/power/state ]; DWL-650 revP wireless with hostap; Installed to HD

IBM Thinkpad X30: puppy 2.14 frugal install. Internal wifi works. Haven't tested microphone, modem, or card reader, toyed with IR but have no previous experience so can't confirm either way, hairywill.

IBM Thinkpad X31: HDD install inside XP (NTFS). All seems to work except integrated (mini PCI) WiFi card

IBM Thinkpad R40: Puppy 4.00 All seems to work, trackpoint, and Synaptic Touchpad, Intel 82801dB sound, video, USB, --AND-- Cisco/Aironet 802.11 mini PCI internal WiFi card works also. I have this on a hdd dual boot with Win_XP_pro_SP2 NTFS. Can someone please put the dog paw to the left for me, and fix my text indent? TY. Obviously the R40 computer is extremely fast with Puppy, the cpu is a 1.4ghz Pentium-M, 512M ram, 60G HDD, x.org 1024x768. I hope to achieve extended battery life with Puppy over XP on this machine.

IBM Thinkpad T21: All seems to work -onboard-sound, onboard-netcard....i-m happy!

IBM Thinkpad T22: 1.0.9ce hd install acpi=off apm=on. Burner works with burniso2cd, no luck with graveman. Very Fast! Still testing and modding.

IBM Thinkpad T23: 2.0.1 Dual Boot HD Install type2 Super!
IBM Thinkpad T41: USB install/boot, All seems to work. No WiFi card for testing

IBM Thinkpad T42P: USB install/boot, All seems to work except integrated WiFi. Multisession CD seemed to work but wouldn't boot afterwards.

IPC TopnoteH: P3-700/256MB/10GB. PCMCIA Wireless Linksys WPCI54G card. HD install. No problems.

Lifetec LT9303: P2-300/160MB/6GB/24xCD/USB/2xPC-Card.
Puppy 1.0.2 (50m, 2.6.11 Kernel) - Worked just fine. Sound works. PC-Card works. TFT is 800x600.

NEC Versa SX Pentium II: My NEC Versa SX Pentium II 233MHz/256MbRAM has a D-Link DWL610 wifi 802.11b PCMCIA - All AOK with Live CD pups 108r1, 109ce, 200, 201.

I am now multi-booting from W98SE hard-drive using pup4dos into W98, 109CE or 201SM.
For both pups I use wifi-1.0.2-beta-2.pup with ndiswrapper for WEP encrypted network access and Internet access from a DI-514 D-Link 802.11b router.
I can access all the windows files, on my own computer and all the windows shares and pup ftp folders on my LAN members. This is very versatile!
I am incredibly impressed with Puppy's performance & capabilities on this Pentium II 233MHz machine.

Panasonic CF-35: Pentium MMX 150MHz/48MB/2.16GB/USB/CDROM
Puppy 2.10 - Sound Card Yamaha OPL3-SA2 use manual settings in BIOS, configure with ALSA wizard.

Panasonic Tuffbook CF-71: P2-366/128MB/10GB/USB /CDRW Xircom Pcmcia Ethernet.
Puppy 1.0.4 (Type 2 hard drive install) - Had to modprobe the Pcmcia card to get it started, everything else working great.

Sony Vaio pcg-Z600RE: 500MHz 128m ram. pcmcia Cd-Rom, usb floppy.
Puppy 1.03 - Installed perfectly and has sound and network card, using usb mouse. Excellent!

Sony vaio pcg-f707: p3, 600 Mhz, drilled up to 320 megs of RAM

Sony Vaio VGN-FS550: Multisession Puppy DVD (using DVD+RW!!) - wireless works with Intel ProWireless 2200BG

Sony vaio PCG-FX501: cdboot working

Toshiba Satellite A30-203: Works on Toshiba Satellite A30-203

Toshiba Satellite M35X-149: Version 2.14 works very well. Wireless, printer and Skype all working within 5 minutes. Clever pup.

Toshiba Tecra 780 DVD: Sound Card is still on the works.

Toshiba Tecra 8000: 366mhz 192mb linksys wifi. See the howto∞. Fast little pup.

Toshiba Tecra 8100: 600MHz 128MB - ACPI off and everything works fine

Toshiba Tecra 8200: 850MHz 256MB - everything works fine

Toshiba P35-S611: P4 3.33GHz/512MB RAM/100GB HD Puppy runs great, but still fiddling with the sound (RealTek ALC250).

Toshiba Portege 650ct subnotebook: P1/56MB/1GB/FDD/ 2XPCMCIA. HDD install with swap - works really well. More on my blog∞

Toshiba and other laptop tip∞

Hardware

CategoryHardware

BurnPuppyCD

oldwiki — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:45:26 -0500

How to Create a Puppy Linux LiveCD/DVD

[Be aware that it is not absolutely necessary to create a Puppy Linux LiveCD/DVD so as to run Puppy Linux operating system. An easier alternative for many persons is to extract the contents of the ISO image to a directory on virtually any type of partition - this being known as a frugal installation]

1. Preparation

Download the latest official version of Puppy Linux. What is downloaded is a file known as an ISO image. These ISO images are files that contain data files, as well as file system information such as boot code. They can be considered as a single file copy of a disc. This image is subsequently written (burnt) to optical disc which results in a LiveCD/DVD.

The easiest method for most users may be to use the BitTorrent protocol to download the ISO image, because BitTorrent automatically verifies the integrity of the data received. This may be done by visiting the relevant page at LinuxTracker.org (direct download link). Note that a BitTorrent software program would need to be installed to make use of the BitTorrent protocol. The Opera web browser has integrated support for BitTorrent; so there would be no need for dedicated software. Microsoft Windows users may download dedicated software here. For newcomers I recommend that Opera be used since it is very easy to operate - downloads can be managed from the Opera browser window.

If the BitTorrent protocol is not used then verification of the integrity of the downloaded ISO image must be done manually. It is important that this is done since it will prevent you from wasting time and money, and from being embarrassed. A lot of requests for help is "Why does my disc not boot?". Modem connections tend to be interrupted when downloading large files; and data can be corrupted during transmission regardless of connection type. Endeavour to use a download manager if possible so that if the download gets interrupted it can be resumed later. How to verify its integrity manually is shown by going here.

Verify that the computer's BIOS is configured properly so that the boot sequence is set appropriately. This is to ensure that the CD/DVD drive will boot before any hard disc drive (HDD) does, or any other bootable device. Many computers' BIOS do not have this sequence by default. A suitable boot sequence would be: floppy drive, CD/DVD drive, then HDD. Save any change to the BIOS configuration before exiting the BIOS.

Verify that you have a re-writable optical disc drive. All optical disc drives have reading capability, but they do not all have writing capability. The older an optical disc drive is, the less likely that it has writing capability. If a drive has this capability it will have the logos "RW" and/or "ReWritable" imprinted on the drive tray.

If your optical disc drive is compatible it is recommended that DVD be used, since it is a higher specification format than CD and can hold much more data.

It is strongly recommended that you use single-layer, not double-layer, DVD-R media. A single-layer DVD-R can store about 4.3GB, but there is a software limitation that restricts the last directory to 4G. So using double-layer DVD-R media will just be a waste of money.

Do not use DVD+R, DVD-RW, or DVD+RW media as each of these seem to have particular problems. But then, if you find that a DVD+R works for you, fine. Of course you may experiment with any media, perhaps DVD+RW.

If your optical disc drive is not DVD compatible: use CD-R. CD-RW is not recommended simply because it is not necessary. Although a CD-R is "write-once", in multi-session mode tracks can be written one after the other up to 99 tracks or until the CD-R becomes full. Therefore save money and use CD-R media. Use high quality disc media.

Summary:

Download ISO image using the BitTorrent protocol (with Opera web browser)
Configure BIOS
Use single-layer DVD-R media (or CD-R if your optical disc drive is not DVD compatible)
Insert blank (or erased) DVD-R into a re-writable optical disc drive

2. Burning (Writing) the ISO Image to Optical Disc

The instructions in this section result in a disc where personal data and settings have to be saved to some other partition on a HDD or USB flash drive. Data cannot be saved to this type of LiveCD/DVD. If data is required to be saved to the LiveCD/DVD that is in use then a multi-session LiveCD/DVD must be created (see the Appendix below).

Microsoft Windows Users

In order to burn an ISO image the burning software must be instructed to use the "burn iso image" function. For example, in Nero, go to the File menu and select Recorder -> Burn Image; not Burn Bootable Image.

Do not use the burner software that comes with the Microsoft Windows operating system. Such software only produces a data disc which is not what one wants. One wants to produce a bootable disc. The software to use is either BurnCDCC or ImgBurn, both of which are highly recommended and free.

BurnCDCC consists of only one small file, and requires no installation. It is designed to burn ISO images exclusively and is excellent for inexperienced users. Both programs can be reliably used to burn an ISO file to a CD/DVD. Both programs appear to be available for all versions of Windows.

Video Tutorial - How to use BurnCDCC∞
Tutorial - How to use ImgBurn

A low burn speed is best since it will increase the probability of achieving a bootable disc. Images are not burnt correctly at too high a speed. Set the burning speed of the software accordingly; or just accept the default value set by the program. When the image has been written, re-start the computer with the disc remaining in the drive.

If you would like to create a multi-session LiveCD then you would need to use CDBurnerXP, not BurnCDCC or ImgBurn (see multi-session section below).

If you would like to create a multi-session LiveDVD then you must use Burniso2cd or Pburn (see multi-session section below).

Linux Users

Users of a Linux distribution other than Puppy Linux may burn ISO images using their default burner, e.g. K3b and Brasero. K3b automatically performs the md5sum verification and is included in Linux distributions that use the KDE desktop. Brasero is an application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily and quickly.

Puppy Linux users have the excellent Burniso2cd and Pburn recording software at their disposal. They will only perform the writing function with a blank disc, i.e. the disc is either new, or, as in the case of a re-writable disc, it has been erased first. Only Pburn has erasing capability. Either Burniso2cd or Pburn can be used to burn ISO images.

To start Burniso2cd, within Puppy Linux go to: Menu -> Multimedia -> Burniso2cd.

To start Pburn, within Puppy Linux go to: Menu -> Multimedia -> Pburn.

To burn using Burniso2cd: start Burniso2cd; select the disc type, CD or DVD, that has been placed in the drive; then select the optical disc drive that contains the disc; and then navigate to the location of the relevant ISO file so as to select it. The Burniso2cd program will burn (write) the ISO image file to the disc. Leave the disc in the drive and re-start the computer.

To erase a disc: start Pburn; go to Burn -> Blank CD/DVD; click Blank disc tab and select type of erasure and type of disc media; click Burner device tab and select your burner device (drive) that contains the disc to be erased, and uncheck "Eject disc after burn"; click Burn button to commence erasing.

Appendix: Multi-Session LiveDVD

Creating a disc that is multi-session is desirable when one wishes data to be saved to the same LiveCD/DVD that one has booted up from. This means that one can carry an operating system and personal files all on one disc.

A multi-session optical disc is only created if it is specifically written, or burnt, 'open'. Being 'open' means that future, persistent data can be saved onto the same disc as opposed to some other additional partition.

Microsoft Windows Users

Not all CD/DVD burning programs designed for Microsoft Windows provide the option to burn (write) in multi-session mode. One that does is the free CDBurnerXP∞. It is only available for Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista operating systems.

Use this program for creating a multi-session LiveCD only. However, it has already been stated that it is recommended to use DVD-R media for the creation of a multi-session disc. Therefore the only circumstances under which one should use CDBurnerXP to burn a CD-R would be if one's optical drive is not a DVD rewriter. The following tutorial is for such a situation.

Tutorial: Download CDBurnerXP here. Version 3 does not require Microsoft .NET Framework to be installed. Later versions do. Launch CDBurnerXP whereupon a dialogue box opens which is the startup screen (older startup screen, newer startup screen - varies depending on software version); select the option that refers to burning an ISO image;

From the File menu select Write Disk from ISO file...;
Select a suitable writing speed;
Ensure that Finalize Disc is not ticked;
Click Write Disc.

Do not use CDBurnerXP to create a multi-session LiveDVD. To record to DVD a running Linux distribution is required because one absolutely must use growisofs (combined mkisofs frontend/DVD recording program) to perform the burn. The Burniso2cd program in Puppy Linux uses growisofs.

In summary, for all Microsoft Windows users, the recommended course of action is:

First create a non-multi-session LiveDVD using BurnCDCC and a DVD-R (as shown above)

Then use this newly created disc to boot into Puppy Linux so as to create a new multi-session one using Burniso2cd (as shown above). This is possible since remember that Puppy Linux runs completely in RAM and so the first LiveDVD (the non-multi-session one) can be removed from the optical drive and replaced with a blank disc for the creation of the new multi-session LiveDVD.

Linux Users

Puppy Linux has been a pioneer of the multi-session LiveCD/DVD. To create a multi-session disc use Burniso2cd within Puppy Linux. [An alternative would be to use Pburn].

Using Burniso2cd a DVD is always burnt open, i.e. the option whether to burn as closed or open is not offered. This DVD can become either a multi-session Puppy LiveCD/DVD or a non-multi-session one. This option is offered when you first boot the newly burnt disc and subsequently proceed to shutdown for the first time: you will be asked where you will want your persistent data to be saved, either on the DVD or on some other partition, wherever that may be. The irreversible decision you make here is what determines whether the disc is permanently set as multi-session or not. So if you want a multi-session disc choose that personal data and session settings be saved to the optical disc only.

For CD-R/RW media the situation is different. The option is offered whether to burn as closed or open; so if you want a multi-session CD-R/RW then you must choose to burn an 'open' disc. However, using a CD seems to be less reliable at saving sessions at shutdown than using a DVD - another reason not to use CDs for creating a LiveCD/DVD.

To start Burniso2cd, within Puppy Linux go to: Menu -> Multimedia -> Burniso2cd.

CategoryHowto

Things to do

Irihapeti — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:29:27 -0500

Things needing to be done

Scim support for java applications
Getting Scribus 1.35 to work properly
Getting other qt apps to work properly
Improvements to the installation instructions
Testing things
Support for more languages
Rewriting scripts to make localisation easier
Adding to the wiki
Spelling checkers for other languages
Support for earlier Puppies than 2.17

Any and all help is welcome.

If you can help please leave a message here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27967

multi-lingual Puppy

Installing Wbar Program Launcher

superuser — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:56:48 -0500

Installing Wbar Program Launcher

Step-by-step Instructions for Noobs.

2. Copy the folders root and user to / using Rox drag and drop (open a
Rox window where the folders were unpacked and open another Rox window
at / level where you can see the /root and /usr folders).

3. Copy the unpacked folders from one window to the other by
dragging and dropping. You will be asked if you wish to merge the
contents of those folders into the existing ones. Choose Merge

4. Open the config file (/root/dot.wbar by default) by
right-clicking and choosing open as text. You will see the very simple
format for each entry on the launch bar. Add each program item location
and its menu icon location in the same format, deleting those you don't
need. You can find out where programs are by opening a console and
typing

Code:

# which (program executable name)

at the prompt (# is the prompt). Icons are usually in
/usr/share/pixmaps, /usr/share/icons, /usr/share/mini-icons or
/usr/share/midi-icons. If you use icons from /usr/share/midi-icons,
when you use Barry's icon theme changer, the icons in your wbar will
also change to match.(Puppy 3.02 and 4.0 only)

5. When you have finished editing the config file, save it as /root/.wbar and run

Code:

# wbar --help

to see what command options you have (bar location, transparency, etc)

6. Finally, run wbar from the console prompt to check it starts and
looks like you want. If it doesn't start then you've messed up a
program or icon location in the config file.

7. When ready, copy the wbar [options] start command to the end of your /root/.xinitrc file just above the line

Code:

exec $CURRENTWM

wbar should then start each time your desktop loads. Here is what mine looks like

Code:

# Start wbar application launcher

sleep 3 && wbar -above-desk -pos top -balfa 0 -zoomf 1.8 &

The && and & are CRITICAL, especially the last &.

Note: You will need to run it with "-above-desk" parameter, so it'll be seen over the Rox pinboard (background).

Making Scim work with QT (almost beginner-friendly)

Irihapeti — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:47:42 -0500

Setting up Scim to work with QT Applications

Using precompiled packages

Scim and scim-bridge can be used with qt applications, though not all qt applications are very well behaved.

You will need to install the files mentioned in the GTK section.

QT3

QT3 by default does not have support for the scim-bridge drivers. Instead, you will need a patched version of QT3 which has been compiled with immodule support.

Currently, this version is available here.
The scim-bridge driver is included in the package.

This package installs to /usr/lib/qt-im-3.3.8. Therefore, it will not overwrite or get mixed up with any other version of qt3 that might be on your computer. You will, though, need to adjust your /etc/profile to tell the system to use this version of qt3. It was originally intended to have an install script do this, but a bug in Puppy has prevented this for the moment.

How to change your /etc/profile so the new qt3 works.

If this seems scary, take a deep breath and relax. It's actually quite easy.

Go to the /etc directory and open the file "profile" with Geany or other text editor.

Near the beginning of the file you'll find a section that looks like this (unless someone's played with it).

In Puppy 2.17 & 3.01:

if [ -e /usr/lib/qt ];then #do not use -d as qt may be link? QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt export QTDIR PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH fi

In Puppy 4.00 it's a bit different but does the same thing:

if [ -e /usr/lib/qt ];then export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt [ -d /usr/lib/qt/bin ] && PATH=/usr/lib/qt/bin:${PATH} LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/qt/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH fi

The bits that say "qt" need to be changed so that they say "qt-im-3.3.8". So you end up with a section that looks like this:

if [ -e /usr/lib/qt-im-3.3.8 ];then #do not use -d as qt may be link? QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-im-3.3.8 export QTDIR PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QTDIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH fi

Or, in Puppy 4.00:

if [ -e /usr/lib/qt-im-3.3.8 ];then export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-im-3.3.8 [ -d /usr/lib/qt-im-3.3.8/bin ] && PATH=/usr/lib/qt-im-3.3.8/bin:${PATH} LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/qt-im-3.3.8/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH fi

This package works with Puppy 2.17, 3.01 and 4.00. If you are installing qt-im-3.3.8.pet to Puppy 4.00, you also need to install libGLU-1.3.pet.

Once these packages are installed, along with scim and scim-bridge, and you've edited /etc/profile, restart the X-server, or reboot, and scim should be usable with qt3 applications.

QT4

Installing QT4 in Puppy 4.00 is straightforward. The official qt4 .pet package will work. All you need in addition is the scim driver, which is packaged as scim-bridge-qt4-p4.pet.

For earlier Puppy versions, different packages are needed.

A version of qt4 that will work on Puppy 2.17 and 3.01 can be downloaded here.

It includes a script that should mean that the environment variables are all set up for you.

If that doesn't work, qt4 programs won't run. If you open a terminal (click on the console icon) and type the name of your program, you'll get a message something like this:

error loading libQT....so.4 no such file or directory.

If that happens, do this:

Open your /etc/profile with Geany or other text editor.

Find the entry that refers to qt3. It will be in the first half of the file. Look at the qt3 section of this article to see exactly what you are looking for.

Immediately after the word "fi" at the end of this part, press "return" and insert the following lines:

QT4DIR=/usr/lib/qt-4.3.4 export QT4DIR PATH=$QT4DIR/bin:$PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QT4DIR/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Save the file. Now restart the X server, or reboot if you prefer, and qt4 programs should be working.

Important!

QT plugins cannot be "mixed and matched". You can't take a plugin from another compilation, even if it's the same version number, and expect it to work. The safest thing is to make sure that they've been compiled against the specific version of qt that you are going to use. Alternatively, compile the plugins yourself.

If you are installing qt3 or qt4 which has been compiled in another system, the installation location must match, symlinks and all. For example, if qt3 was compiled to /usr/lib/qt3, which was a symlink of /mnt/home/qt-x11-free-3.3.8, you need to set it up that way in the new system. Otherwise, it can't find header files and immodules won't work.

Multi-Lingual Puppy

Technical - How Tos

Adding keyboard layouts - Xorg only

Irihapeti — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:05:56 -0500

Setting up alternative keyboard layouts

NOTE: This is a different thing from using Scim. If you are using Scim, you most likely won't need it, but there are some exceptions, notably Arabic.

Some languages require a different keyboard layout to work properly. The default US layout has only a limited number of characters, which is adequate for English but not for languages which have diacritical marks (commonly known as accents). This covers most other languages using Latin characters.

You can just set up a different keyboard layout as your default, but what if you don't want to use the new layout all the time?

Fortunately, it's easy to set up two (or more) layouts so that you can switch quickly and easily between the two.

SORRY, this method only works for Xorg.

The keyboard layouts are already in Puppy 2.17, 3.01 and 4.00. There's nothing you need to install.

* From the menu, choose Setup -> Mouse/keyboard Wizard

* Click on Advanced Xorg keyboard configuration

* Click on Layouts to add another keyboard layout.

*When you've added your new keyboard layout, click on the Options tab, near the top of the window.

You'll see a window like this:

There are four things we are going to change, and one of those is optional. They are marked in red.

Group Shift/Lock behaviour

This sets the key combination you use to switch keyboard layouts.

It's a rather confusing option. The name doesn't really tell you what it does. Also, when you actually click on this button, you see a large number of options - and many of them look rather similar.

In the screenshot I've select the one that I use. That lets me switch layouts at any time by pressing shift and alt. (Shift needs to be the first one pressed or nothing happens.)

I've chosen this combination because many of the other options are already used for another function. Control-shift is used a lot for keyboard shortcuts, for example. If you prefer something else, you have quite a few choices.

Third level choosers

When you press this key at the same time as another, you are able to enter a range of special characters. (If you have a US keyboard layout, it doesn't do anything.)

I've chosen "any of the win keys" because I don't use them for anything else. (It's good to know they are of some use on a Linux system. :) ) It's the one selected in the screenshot.

Keyboard LED to show alternative layout

This one is optional. If you set it, then when you have your alterative layout selected, the LED will light up. I've chosen to use the "scroll lock" LED because it has no other use on my system

Compose key position

You'll be offered a choice of four keys to use. I've chosen the menu key for this.

This also can be optional. The "compose" key gives you another way to type special characters, even with a standard keyboard. More details here: http://cyberborean.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/compose-key-magic/

Activate the new settings. Now you have two keyboard layouts set up and you can switch quickly between them.

Multi-lingual Puppy

Compiling scim-bridge and related packages - for the adventurous

Irihapeti — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:39:20 -0500

Compiling Scim-bridge and Related Packages from Source

Note: At this stage, these instructions are for GTK2 only. Fortunately, that covers a large number of programs available in Puppy. QT support will be added later, as will instructions for compiling in other Puppy versions.

It is assumed here that you know how to compile packages from source. If you don't, instructions are available in other places.

If no special instructions are given, configure the package with the command:

./configure

It is recommended to make these packages into .pet packages, for ease of removal. Instructions are here:

http://www.puppylinux.com/development/createpet.html

These compilation instructions apply to Puppy 2.17. They need changes in order to work in other versions of Puppy.

Scim

Download and unarchive scim-1.4.7.tar.gz

Configure:

./configure --prefix=/usr

This installs scim to /usr rather than /usr/local, which then makes it easier to compile scim-bridge.

Scim-bridge

Download and unarchive scim-bridge-0.4.15.tar.gz

Configure:

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-qt3-immodule --disable-qt4immodule

To activate scim-bridge as an input method, add to the file /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules these two lines:

"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/immodules/im-scim-bridge.so" "scim-bridge" "SCIM Bridge Input Method" "" "" ""

Add these two lines to .xinitrc in your home directory. You'll need to be able to see invisible files to do this. (Click on the eye icon at the top of the window.)

export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim-bridge" export QT_IM_MODULE="scim-bridge"

These lines go near the top, just after the line that ends with PUPSTATE.

Because the qt immodules haven't been enabled, the second line will do absolutely nothing. However, it's already set up in case you should wish to add the qt immodules later on.

All you need to do now is restart the xserver, and scim should be ready to go. Open Abiword, Geany, or OpenOffice and the tray icon should appear.

At this point, all you have available is the standard English keyboard, or raw code for inputting unicode 4-character codes. To get more options, you need to add some keyboard tables.

Scim-tables

Download and unarchive scim-tables-0.5.8.tar.gz

This needs no special configure option. The plain

./configure

command is all that's needed.

Scim-m17n

This option has three components: m17n-db, m17n-lib, and scim-m17n itself.

Download m17n-db-1.5.1.tar.gz, m17n-lib-1.5.1.tar.gz, scim-m17n-0.2.2.tar.gz

Compile m17n-db:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-charmaps=/location/of/charmaps

*If you already have charmaps, perhaps in another distro on your system, you can copy the charmaps folder or symlink it to a suitable location. If you don't have them, a script will offer to download glibc (which contains the charmaps) for you, but be aware that it's a 17Mb download.

Compile m17n-lib:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile scim-m17n:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Scim-anthy

This has two components.

Download anthy-9100e.tar.gz and scim-anthy-1.2.6.tar.gz

Compile anthy libraries:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile scim-anthy:

no special options

Scim-pinyin

./configure --prefix=/usr

Install scripts for scim-bridge .pet

If you are making Scim-bridge into a .pet package, you can create the two following scripts.

1. pinstall.sh (remember to make it executable)

#!/bin/sh cp /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules.bak
#add entry to gtk.immodules echo '"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/immodules/im-scim-bridge.so"' >> /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules echo '"scim-bridge" "SCIM Bridge Input Method" "" "" ""' >> /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
#add entry to .xinitrc, near beginning sed -i -e 's/PUPSTATE/PUPSTATE\ \ export GTK_IM_MODULE="scim-bridge"\ export QT_IM_MODULE="scim-bridge"/' ~/.xinitrc

2. puninstall.sh (likewise, it needs to be executable)

#!/bin/sh
#remove entry from gtk.immodules sed -i /scim-bridge/d /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
#remove entry from .xinitrc sed -i ' /.*scim-bridge./ { N N d } ' ~/.xinitrc

This automates adding and removing the lines to/from the configuration files.

----------------------

Multi-Lingual Puppy

Applications that work with SCIM

Installing fonts

Using the WiKi editor - some hints

Irihapeti — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:11:45 -0500

How do I edit the WiKi?

Simple blog posting is straightforward:

heading styles
bold
italic
underline
insert links to other pages

If using dialup, prepare text in Geany
and cut and paste into the wiki

HTML (web pages) can be highlighted and pasted straight in

How does 'word wrap' work?

Drupal (the WiKi software) automatically starts a new line for you when you are typing and reach the end of a line.
So just type in paragraphs. Drupal will autoformat.

How does HTML work?

Most html editors expect you to tell them where to end the line or paragraph by using tags, such as or and and . Unless those tags are included, the browser will show all the lines running into one another as one great unbroken block of text.

Drupal, however, thinks that every line ending should be preserved, tags or no tags. This means that you don't need to put tags at the end of each paragraph or enclose them in tags, which is great if you are just submitting a piece of simple text. But it can cause other problems if you're not aware of it.

Can I have an example?

Let's say you are preparing your article in Geany or Bluefish and you click on the preview/execute button every so often to see how it looks. You can have two pieces of input, one looking like this:

this is the text that I
want to display

and another looking like this:

this is the text that I want to display

and they'll both look the same in your offline preview.

But if you paste these two into the wiki editor (rich text off), you'll get the first one displaying as two lines, and the second as one.

If you're getting line breaks where you don't want them, check your original text. Take out any line breaks you don't want. Never mind what the Wiki Entry window shows you when rich text is on. It's misleading.

How does line spacing work?

Now let’s say that you've entered or pasted your text in, it looks OK but you want to put in a paragraph break. You hit "return", and the spacing is huge – bigger than the spacing between the other paragraphs. It doesn't look right.

Hit backspace immediately, and it will reduce the spacing. It won't take the paragraph break out altogether. You need to hit backspace twice to do that.

Here's another puzzling one. You've prepared your text without extra line breaks and you've pasted it in with rich text disabled. You click on preview and the line spacing still isn't right. All of your lines are treated as separate paragraphs, even if you kept them as one line, and the line spacing is huge.

Not to worry. Click on preview again (first click on "disable rich text") and the spacing is how it should be. The WiKi Entry window will show the text as having no line breaks and everything run together. Ignore it; it's only trying to fool you.

If you click on disable rich text again and look at your original text, you'll see the line breaks are still there. They will match the ones in the main preview window in the upper part of the page.

What is freelinking?

This is a rather nifty idea to help you link to another WiKi page. You input your reference between double square brackets: my reference and it turns into a link automatically. If you move your mouse cursor over it, the URL that's displayed contains the word "freelinking".

The trouble is, it doesn't work. Clicking on your link would only get an "access denied" message. (If it doesn't, clear the cache and try again.)

For a working link, do it like an external reference to another website. Example: http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/path-to/my-reference|my reference. You'll need the double square brackets around it. I've left them out because otherwise it turns into a link and you can't see the text.

How do I improve formatting?

There are a few tricks to getting your code to appear nicely formatted, in a different typeface from the rest of your wiki entry. The "code" tags are supposed to do that, but they only work as they should if there are no blank lines in your code. Otherwise, the typeface reverts to ordinary text.

So you get:

#!/bin/sh some lines another line

#Want a gap here to make it easier to read
another line
more stuff
exit

Notice how the second text block is in ordinary display type. This can be a problem if your code depends on distinguishing between lower-case l, capital I and the figure 1 (and that probably applies to most code).

You can fix it by putting each block of text within <code> tags. But it's very easy to end up with too much space between text blocks, because of drupal's way of handling line breaks and spacing.

So, if you have

<code> some text</code>

you are going to get a different result than if you had

<code> some text
</code>

The second way of doing it will give two blank lines between sections of code, which probably isn't what you want.

To get this looking right, work with rich text disabled. Ignore what it looks like in the editor window when rich text is enabled. It's assumed that if you are dealing with script files, you already know something about working with non-WYSIWIG codings. :)

For the example above, we could use:

<code>#!/bin/sh
some lines
another line
</code>
<code>#Want a gap here to make it easier to read
another line
more stuff
exit</code>

(How did I get it to display like that? I pasted it in when rich text was enabled. Drupal then thought it was ordinary text.)

Paste it in with rich text disabled, and here is the result:

#!/bin/sh some lines another line
#Want a gap here to make it easier to read another line more stuff exit

Now there should be no difficulty telling the difference between capital I, lower-case l and the figure one.

By the way, the WiKi Entry window (with rich text on) shows the code as one continuous line. Just ignore it.

What about adding images?

The "image" icon in the editor only gives you the option of inline images. These are satisfactory only in a few situations, for example if there's no text on the same line. In other situations you can end up with your page looking rather a mess.

You get better control over the layout if you use the html coding for tables. That way you can have more than one line of text alongside an image.

By the way, screenshots of text don't work well; if the typesize is small, they can be unreadable. Haven't found an answer to that yet.

any other ideas?

If you have any tricks that you've discovered, please let us know

Intall Puppy to a USB drive using UNetbootin (Puppy 4.0) on Windows

Trid — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:57:12 -0500

This also works with a HDD too, but I installed to USB.

First, you'll need a flash drive that is 128mb or larger for this to work.

I'm using a Dane-Elec 1gb drive for this.

Then download UNetbootin here.

Install it according to onscreen instructions.

Open it.

Select Puppy from the very top bar, and to the right of it, select the only option there.

Click the disk image button, select .ISO, and put in the address of your Puppy .ISO.

Select your USB drive (or whatever drive you want) that has been formatted to FAT32.

Click okay, and when it's done, reboot.

During the BIOS boot up, mash whatever button takes you to boot options (f12 for me) and select your USB drive. It will be classified as either 'Removable Storage' or as a 'Hard Drive' Either way, it will identify itself as your USB drive. Select this, and Linux will boot. When Puppy is fully up and running, immediately reboot from the menu so you can set up your .2FS. Make it as high as possible (usually by selecting the 'use up entire partition' option). Then boot back to Puppy, and configure your new Linux OS.

Puppy will take up approx. 80 ~ 100 Megabytes on your drive, and whatever you set aside in your .SFS will be unavailable for general use when not using Puppy.

Using this method has been by far the easiest way to install Puppy, or any other Distro.

yrotst@yahoo.com

Some Localisations

Irihapeti — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:15:21 -0500

Localisations

A localisation is an operating system that aims to be, as far as possible, all in one (non-English) language.

Puppy has many localisations already. Here is just a sample.

Chinese Puppy: http://puppylinux.asia/downloads/ChinesePuppy/
Japanese Puppy: http://openlab.jp/puppylinux/index.html.en
Vietnamese Puppy: http://hacao.com/
Greek Puppy: http://hamster.tuxhost.gr/
Russian Puppy: http://www.puppyrus.org
French Puppy: http://www.moulinier.net/
Muppy (German): http://minisys-linux.de/index.html

Add your localisation to this list!

Psip Public User Directory

smokey01 — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:41:20 -0500

Note the "" at each end of the address. Without these it is possible to send emails to bogus addresses.

Name Address

Smokey - "wombat01@realsip.com"
Lobster - "crusty_lobster@proxy01.sipphone.com"
Caneri - "caneri@proxy01.sipphone.com"
gazb - "gazb689@proxy01.sipphone.com"

CrustyLobster

oldwiki — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:46:23 -0500

Puppy Skills

Developer (programs in Puppy):
PSIP VOIP 'softphone' protoype written in Freebasic and then Bashscript + GTK
Pwget - software front end to wget for downloading software

Puplet Developer

Linux Tmxxine

Project Support

Podcasts, News, Testing Puplets, Alpha and beta version testing, community editions, first multisession tester, created first Puppy IRC channel, developed first and second Puppy wikis created first Puppy manuals etc

Some Lobster Puppy sites

download the 1MB mp3 file∞

- A Better Vista∞ Linux without the hype, including 'How I became a penguin' from Lobster

Presentations and Intros

Puppy Sings∞ NEW
Intro to Puppy 2∞
Short intro∞
Puppy Web based presentation∞ This was my first one . . .

Puppy is expanding. More people are learning how easy it is to use.
As usual a greater diversity of interests are arising; many non-english languages are now supported

It is this diversity that is part of the fun. You learn from everyone, trying to understand and appreciate their unique perspective. Puppy is always usable and innovative. The idea of working from a Barebones Puppy; installing and uninstalling and having that available in a variety of menuing systems - wonderful.

More people are now starting to use this CMS, which is great.

Links

Puppy into other Dimensions∞
Puppy at wikipedia∞

Site Suggestions

hairywill — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:49:07 -0500

Categories of Applications

The Applications wiki page should categorize applications by function, instead of by technical jargon like Pets/Pups/SFS. A new user wants to find an application that does something useful to him, not wade through more tech details. Categories should be things like: Office, Internet, Games, Utilities, Programming, Graphics, Music & Sound, Video

list of all wiki pages

I can't find a page to list all of the wiki pages. This would be very useful. Can we have one please? Or is it too tricky?

disciple

It would be really nice if the wiki changes showed the last editor instead of the page creator

how about a page template including {{last author}} and {{edit time}}

Wll

HOWTO pppoe (Roaring Penguin),TESTED on TigerPup 1.6, MacPup and TinyMe

Tervel — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:02:24 -0500

HOWTO pppoe with Puppy (Roaring Penguin)
=========================================

TESTED on TigerPup 1.6, MacPup and TinyMe;

I recommend to use the terminal over the RoadPenguin-GUI.

1. Start the Puppy "Network wizard" and configure your LAN-Card (eth0 or eth1)
2.Then click on "auto dhcp" in the "Network wizard"

Now your network is configured.

3. Type in the terminal

"pppoe-setup"

4.You'll be greeted by:

> Welcome to the Roaring Penguin PPPoE client setup. First, I will run
> some checks on your system to make sure the PPPoE client is installed
> properly...
>
> Looks good! Now, please enter some information:

5.Type your account name

> USER NAME
>
> >>> Enter your PPPoE user name (default bxxxnxnx@sympatico.ca): YOURACCOUNT

6.Choose the ETH you activated in the "Network wizard"

> INTERFACE
>
> >>> Enter the Ethernet interface connected to the DSL modem
> For Solaris, this is likely to be something like /dev/hme0.
> For Linux, it will be ethn, where 'n' is a number.
> (default eth1): eth0
>
> Do you want the link to come up on demand, or stay up continuously?
> If you want it to come up on demand, enter the idle time in seconds
> after which the link should be dropped. If you want the link to
> stay up permanently, enter 'no' (two letters, lower-case.)
> NOTE: Demand-activated links do not interact well with dynamic IP
> addresses. You may have some problems with demand-activated links.

7. I chose "NO".

> >>> Enter the demand value (default no): no
>

8. !!!IMPORTANT!!! You HAVE to write in your DNS! The other option didn't work for me.

> Please enter the IP address of your ISP's primary DNS server.

sh-3.00# >>> Enter the DNS information here:(PUT YOUR DNS HERE!)
sh: syntax error near unexpected token `>'
sh-3.00# Please enter the IP address of your ISP's secondary DNS server.
> If you just press enter, I will assume there is only one DNS server.
> >>> Enter the secondary DNS server address here:(PUT YOUR DNS HERE!)

9.Type in your account password.

> PASSWORD
>
> >>> Please enter your PPPoE password:
> >>> Please re-enter your PPPoE password:
>

10. IMPORTANT - I choose always option "1" !!!

> FIREWALLING
>
> Please choose the firewall rules to use. Note that these rules are
> very basic. You are strongly encouraged to use a more sophisticated
> firewall setup; however, these will provide basic security. If you
> are running any servers on your machine, you must choose 'NONE' and
> set up firewalling yourself. Otherwise, the firewall rules will deny
> access to all standard servers like Web, e-mail, ftp, etc. If you
> are using SSH, the rules will block outgoing SSH connections which
> allocate a privileged source port.
>
> The firewall choices are:
> 0 - NONE: This script will not set any firewall rules. You are responsible
> for ensuring the security of your machine. You are STRONGLY
> recommended to use some kind of firewall rules.
> 1 - STANDALONE: Appropriate for a basic stand-alone web-surfing workstation
> 2 - MASQUERADE: Appropriate for a machine acting as an Internet gateway
> for a LAN
> >>> Choose a type of firewall (0-2): 1
>
> ** Summary of what you entered **
>
> Ethernet Interface: eth0
> User name: xxxxxxxx
> Activate-on-demand: No
> Primary DNS: xxx.xx.x.x
> Secondary DNS: xxx.xx.x.x
> Firewalling: STANDALONE
>
> >>> Accept these settings and adjust configuration files (y/n)? y
> Adjusting /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf
> Adjusting /etc/resolv.conf
> Adjusting /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
> (But first backing it up to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets-bak)
> (But first backing it up to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets-bak)
>
>
>
> Congratulations, it should be all set up!
>
> Type 'pppoe-start' to bring up your PPPoE link and 'pppoe-stop' to bring
> it down. Type 'pppoe-status' to see the link status.

10. Now type "pppoe-start"

> sh-3.00# pppoe-start
> ... Connected!

> sh-3.00# pppoe-status
> pppoe-status: Link is up and running on interface ppp0
> ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> inet addr:xxxxxxxxxxx P-t-P:10.0.0.3 Mask:255.255.255.255
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
> RX packets:2872 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:2789 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
> RX bytes:2549478 (2.4 MiB) TX bytes:361971 (353.4 KiB)
>

12. NOW you are CONNECTED but nothing happens!The solution:

Type: " route del default"
Then: " route add default ppp0"

NOW it should be working!

Getting Scim working after it's installed

Irihapeti — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:00:40 -0500

Getting Scim Working

You've just installed the Scim and scim-bridge .pet files. You've installed a set of tables from another file. You've found and installed suitable fonts. You've restarted the X server. What now? How to get it actually working?
This article goes through the procedure step by step. I use Simplified Chinese as my example, but very similar things will apply to any language.

When you've restarted the X server and done nothing else yet, this is what you'll see in the system tray area. Of course, you may have other things there in addition to those shown in the screenshot.
Open an application that will work with Scim, such as Geany, and the Scim icon (arrowed) appears.
Press control-space and the Scim panel appears at the right-hand end of the system tray area.
Click on the keyboard icon (not the "SCIM" logo) and a list of language options appears. Exactly what you see depends on which tables you have installed. In this installation, scim-m17n and scim-pinyin are installed. Only a part of the list is shown (to keep the image to a reasonable size). Some languages have more than one option, as is the case with Simplified Chinese, shown here.
I select smart-pinyin (from the scim-pinyin .pet file), the last entry on the list. Now the system tray looks like this: Some of the symbols shown in the panel are sub-menus for setting different options. These will vary from language to language.
At this stage, it should be possible to enter text. Begin typing in your chosen language. Some languages do most of their work behind the scenes, so to speak, and you'll just see characters appearing on the page. In the case of Chinese, shown here, a dialogue box appears. You can use the up and down arrows to move along the list of choices,and then press tab, spacebar or return to select it to the document. Or just hit the number of the choice you want.

Note: if these images are hard to see, use the "view image" function in your browser for better definition.

This covers the basics of using Scim. If you want more detail, especially with using a particular language, you'll need to consult someone who knows that language.

Multi-Lingual Puppy

excellent list of wifi cards supported by Puppy

E. Thayer — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:35:36 -0500

Most of the referenced cards required some ndiswrapper manipulation. I searched hard and found at least one plug-and-play -- see previous wiki entry.

See Jason Salis' "Puppy Wifi Assistant" database here:

http://salis.sutteryuba.com/WiFi.php

Wifi plug-and-play: Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA

E. Thayer — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:18:40 -0500

I recently purchased this card for a Pentium III, 500 mHz no-hard drive laptop (a Compaq Presario from 1998.) Puppy v.3 automatically detected the presence of the card and used preloaded drivers. I did have to reboot my computer before it would detect the card. It sees my network, now all I have to do is finish entering whatever security codes my network requires. If we had an open network, I'd be surfing on my "ancient" laptop right now.

applications/dot pets/sshd

DrOwl — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:35:14 -0500

sshd

sshd is a ssh server demon. Its used so you can remotely and securely access you puppy system over a network.

Puppy does not normally have remote access, but this maybe usefull for peopel who use puppy as a perminent desktop.

Much more information about this package and ssh in general is avalible from the open ssh site http://www.openssh.com/faq.html

Install

Ok, here goes a quick guide to setting up sshd this was originally decused on the Forum

Please post in the forum if we should be doing something differentl, i know the multi user stuff is messy still.

get big_bass's package `
wget -c http://ttuuxxx.com/bigbass/openssh-5.1.pet `

Install of the pet, (clicking on it in file manager)

You then you need to generate some host keys:

# ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /usr/etc/ssh_host_rsa_key

# ssh-keygen -t dsa -f /usr/etc/ssh_host_dsa_key

# ssh-keygen -t rsa1 -f /usr/etc/ssh_host_key

Next is to modify the config '/usr/etc/sshd_config' do this in which ever editor you like

I like to stop root from logging directly in (not that im paranoid)

So add `PermitRootLogin no`

And i set up a banner, (this is displayed when people try to connect, so is a nice place for a "authorized users only message")

`Banner /etc/sshd_banner`

There are lots more options in sshd_config have a look in the openssh faq for more info

Next create a local non root user that we can use to ssh to the box with.

'mkdir /home

'adduser -h /home/[localusername] [localusername]
'

this will ask you to set a password, make it a complicated one as it gives access to your box.

it's recommended to have at least 9 charters, not a dictionary word, and at least two of, some upers and lowers [a-b|A-Z], some numbers [0-9], some cymbals [!@#$%^&*]. this will make it very difficult for some one to guess your password via bruit force.

The idea is, that once we have logged in we can then switch user 'su -' to root.

I had a problem su'ing to root so i had to add SUID
to su

'chmod 4777 /bin/su'

Then set up the firwall to limmit who can ssh to your box.

The puppy "setup a firewall" wizard is very good.

Do a custom install and select ssh as one of your Open Ports. I would also recommend limiting who can access ssh the firewall wizard will ask "Who can access SSH" chose "specify" and put in the ipaddress/network of the server you want to allow access from.

Last thing is to start up sshd, we should probably have a start script for this in rc.d ill work on that and add it here =)

'/usr/sbin/sshd '

this is what gets auto installed with the pet

/install/doinst.sh

/usr/dop1/ChangeLog

/usr/dop1/TODO

/usr/dop1/README

/usr/dop1/LICENCE

/usr/dop1/INSTALL

/usr/dop1/CREDITS

/usr/bin/ssh-keyscan

/usr/bin/ssh

/usr/bin/ssh-keygen

/usr/bin/ssh-agent

/usr/bin/scp

/usr/bin/ssh-add

/usr/bin/sftp

/usr/sbin/sshd

/usr/man/man5/moduli.5.gz

/usr/man/man5/sshd_config.5.gz

/usr/man/man5/ssh_config.5.gz

/usr/man/man8/sshd.8.gz

/usr/man/man8/sftp-server.8.gz

/usr/man/man8/ssh-keysign.8.gz

/usr/man/man1/ssh-keygen.1.gz

/usr/man/man1/ssh.1.gz

/usr/man/man1/ssh-agent.1.gz

/usr/man/man1/ssh-add.1.gz

/usr/man/man1/scp.1.gz

/usr/man/man1/sftp.1.gz

/usr/man/man1/ssh-keyscan.1.gz

/usr/etc/moduli

/usr/etc/sshd_config

/usr/etc/ssh_config

/usr/libexec/sftp-server

/usr/libexec/ssh-keysign

/usr/share/Ssh.bin

Md5

oldwiki — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:50:54 -0500

MD5

MD5 refers to the MD5 Message Digest Algorithm∞. MD5 hashes are often used to check if a file downloaded correctly. If the MD5 hashes are different, then the file is corrupted or a different version. A MD5 hash (or checksum) is typically a 32-character hexadecimal number that can result from running the md5sum program against a particular file. Since any difference between two files results in two different values, MD5 values can be used to determine that the file (e.g. puppy-release.iso) you downloaded is an exact copy of the original file. The file with the MD5 value usually has the same name as the file you downloaded, but it ends with an additional .md5 and/or .txt extension (e.g. puppy-release.iso.md5.txt).

A MD5 check is not necessary with a BitTorrent download as Bitttorrent automatically provides error correction.

Linux

Change to, or open a console in, the directory that contains
both the ISO file and the md5sum file and issue the command to have the
md5sum checked. If there is no exact match you will get an error
message. If the downloaded file is error-free the program ends without
a message:

$ md5sum -c puppy-version.iso.md5

DOS

Users of DOS or DOS-based versions of Windows (Windows 95, 98 & ME) one can use this MS-DOS compatible application (only 48K): md5sum.exe∞. Right-click on the file name and save it to the folder that your downloaded file is in.

Create a MD5 checksum file using the standard command line utility by typing:

md5sum puppy-puplet.iso > puppy-puplet.iso.md5

For more see the md5sum documentation∞.

MD5sums for Windows∞

CategoryHowto

Setting up Puppy for Multi-Lingual operation - beginner-friendly method

Irihapeti — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:40:46 -0500

Notes on Installing Scim and Related Packages

This article discusses installing Scim and related packages by using precompiled packages. If you want to compile your own, instruction are here: Compiling Scim-bridge and Related Packages

Whichever method you use for installing scim, you will need suitable Unicode-capable fonts. See this section for further details.

Depending on your language choice, you may also need to set up an alternative keyboard layout.

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Precompiled .pet packages

Some scim and scim-bridge files are available here:

http://www.puppylinux.ca/members/Irihapeti

These were mostly compiled on Puppy 2.17 and have been tested in Puppy 3.01 and 4.00. The scim-bridge package contains the scripts needed to set up the configuration files so that the software will work automatically. Usually, it is sufficient to restart the X server; rebooting isn't needed.

You will need:

*scim-1.4.7-i486.pet

*scim-bridge-0.4.15-i486.pet

*one or more of the tables or IMEngine packages noted below, depending on which languages you will be using.

–Where an option has more than one file, e.g. m17n, you need all of them.

Install the packages in the order given and restart the X server. Scim should be ready to use.

Notes about individual modules

*Scim-tables contains options for 19 languages. Its options show in the IMEngine global setup window with pink or red icons and English labels.

*Scim-m17n contains options for 41 languages. Its options have either blue-green coloured icons or the m17n logo, and English labels.

*Scim-pinyin, as the name suggests, is for entering Chinese characters using pinyin. It has a red icon with a Chinese label.

*Scim-anthy, an option for Japanese input, has a gold crown logo and English label.

*Scim-canna has a logo that looks like light-blue capital letter "C" in old-fashioned type. It is another option for typing in Japanese. If you are installing it in Puppy 4.00, you will also need to install gconv4dingo.pet.

All these options can be installed at the same time if you wish.

More detail about individual languages available can be found here.

Please Note:

At the moment, GTK only can be counted on to work. Work on QT3 and QT4 support is in progress.

Fortunately, most of the pre-installed Puppy applications will work with Scim-GTK.

.sfs modules with Scim support

Some .sfs modules incorporating scim will be made available. Details to follow.

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Multi-Lingual Puppy

Applications that work with SCIM

Installing fonts

Adding a new keyboard layout

Checking that Scim is working properly

Recent Wiki Activity

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How to Create a Puppy Linux LiveCD/DVD

1. Preparation

2. Burning (Writing) the ISO Image to Optical Disc

Microsoft Windows Users

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Microsoft Windows Users

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Things to do

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Setting up Scim to work with QT Applications

Using precompiled packages

QT3

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Setting up alternative keyboard layouts

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Compiling Scim-bridge and Related Packages from Source

Using the WiKi editor - some hints

﻿How do I edit the WiKi?

How does line spacing work?

How do I improve formatting?

What about adding images?

any other ideas?

Intall Puppy to a USB drive using UNetbootin (Puppy 4.0) on Windows

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Some Lobster Puppy sites

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excellent list of wifi cards supported by Puppy

Wifi plug-and-play: Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA

applications/dot pets/sshd

sshd

Install

Md5

MD5

Linux

DOS

Setting up Puppy for Multi-Lingual operation - beginner-friendly method

Notes on Installing Scim and Related Packages

Precompiled .pet packages

.sfs modules with Scim support

How do I edit the WiKi?