In Puppy 4.3beta1, the Network Wizard fails to connect to a WPA-encrypted network using PSK (Pre-Shared Key). It seems to assume the older TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol).

Tested on a recent Acer Aspire 5315, Celeron 560 2.13GHz, 2Gb Ram, Atheros AR5007EG wireless adapter.

This is not a new ...

Puppy 4.11 seems to have the old rt61 driver, not the newer rt61pci. I understand there are some issues with rt61pci, but there's a worse problem with rt61: it doesn't support PCMCIA cards.

Not mine, at least (D-Link DWA-610).

I have to stick to Puppy 4.1, as a result (it has rt61pci). If anyone ...

Puppy has improved. All my concerns of 3 years ago have been addressed.

I'm writing from a PC with no hard drive at all. It boots from CD, then Puppy looks for his files and finds them on the flash drive. From then on, there is an eerie silence. Everything that happens, happens in silence. No ...

My mistake, I didn't check the MD5...

Thanks Béèm. My mistake - I neglected to check the MD5. The file size was only 4 bytes different from version 4.1... so I thought it was OK. Not so!

The ibiblio servers seem to be rather busy, lots of dropouts. Everyone and his brother wants the new Puppy...

I've copied this to the 'Improved Network Wizard (and rc.network)' thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31522

Prehistoric, you might want to do the same.

I've just done a frugal install of Puppy 4.1.1 on an old Thinkpad 1200 with a D-Link wireless G card (RaLink RT61 chipset, rt61pci driver). Files saved in /sda1/puppy411.

The Wizard scans for my network successfully, then after I supply the passphrase, it fails to connect. Looks like the passphrase ...

I've just done a frugal install of Puppy 4.1.1 on an old Thinkpad 1200 with a D-Link wireless G card (RaLink RT61 chipset, rt61pci driver). Files saved in /sda1/puppy411.

The Wizard scans for my network successfully, then after I supply the passphrase, it fails to connect. Looks like the passphrase ...

Thanks, Pizzasgood. I confess I didn't try just doing it, since the instructions said I couldn't. Just recently I did try and it works fine. Maybe it always has...

Anyway, as of Puppy 2.02, all my machines are happy and so am I. Very soon I'll be confident enough to do a proper HD install!

I'd like to make a small change to my /sbin/init file, but it's on a file system mounted read-only. Is there a way to edit this file?

(I'm thinking unmount and remount, or perhaps save to another layer and let unionfs merge it in at shutdown).

The great thing about working from a Live CD is that ...

I've opened a thread in the Bug Report forum:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=10430

Sorry about the delay in replying, nasty little bit of 'flu! I didn't touch my PC for a week...

Thanks for your help BlackAdder - I was not concerned about any one application, but just the 34.1M free ...

The script /initrd/sbin/init has a function called loadpupsfsfunc(). It checks for flash drives with a
[ "$PMEDIA" = "ideflash" ] && SIZETESTK=$SIZEFILLK

- however lots of people have PMEDIA of "usbflash", so the init script should test for that too.

The impact of this is that users who have ...

from /intird/sbin/init

#if enough room in ramdisk, copy it...
SIZEPUPSFSK=`du ${1}/$PUPSFS | cut -f 1`
SIZEPUPSFSK=`expr $SIZEPUPSFSK + 1000` #some slack.
SIZETESTK=`expr $SIZEPUPSFSK + 1000` #more slack.
[ "$PMEDIA" = "ideflash" ] && SIZETESTK=$SIZEFILLK #do not want pup_xxx.sfs in ram.
if ...

This looks like a similar problem. I just fired up Puppy 2.01 and it looks really good. However...

Puppy copies pup_201 to RAM and runs from there. That leaves not very much memory for applications.

I got pup_201 onto the flash drive along with pup_save (method: empty the flash drive first; boot ...

Barry,

I've thought about it for a couple of days and I think you're wrong. NTFS support should not be a priority. Flash drive support should.

I'm trying to boot a Puppy 2.00 CD and hoping to use the image of pup_200 on my USB flash drive sda1. That would free up the CD much the way putting usr_cram on the hard drive did in Puppy 1, and still does in Puppy 2 if you have a FAT32 PC (only now it's pup_200).

My 128M USB flash drive is ...

I'm giving up on Puppy. Cute idea, but I can't make it work.

Specifically, on one legacy machine the boot sequence froze. On a Thinkpad Puppy came up, but was unable to use the modem or network card, and couldn't be updated.

My earlier post referred to a boot-sequence problem on a legacy machine ...

New to Linux. Puppy Looks great on my laptop. Trying to boot on an old machine with 1996 AMIBIOS, 200Mhz pentium 2, 64 Mb RAM, 6 Gb disk (old server). Booting without any parameters, we get to

Unmounting /dev/ram0... Done
Freeing /dev/ram0 memory... Done
Puppy is now running in tmpfs ramdisk ...