Ki Kees,

I am very humbled by the amount of effort you have put in to solve my problem, many thanks. Will give it a try ASAP and report back.

Regards,

MarkyD

wow that is a detailed reply thanks!

Previous versions of Slacko did not even have the wired NIC on the Dell E5420 working making it pretty hard to do anything, hence the move to Precise.

I am guessing I need to load up a driver module for theDW1530 card, guessing this is "Dell Wireless" before I ...

Been a big fan of Puppy Linux for many years, having a bootable USB stick in your pocket in the IT game is a very handy thing. When I got a new work laptop (ooooooh!) my Puppy stick broke due to drivers and time for an upgrade. Oh work laptop is a Dell E5420, nothing special but not bad either ...

have to say this has been a most useful thread, just to add to the mix none of the usual Puppies worked on my new work laptop (Dell E5420) which is ok but the WiFi and Wired Ethernet were not playing the game at all and then stumbled across "Precise Puppy" ..... hey ... works fab and if you don't ...

Afternoon all,

I have an Asus motherboard which consists of a Dual Atom & ION chipset. Getting any form of Linux to work properly with it has been a complete nightmare!

Most 'Buntu based stuff freezes up after a while and it has spent most of its life with a Puppy disk in its CD drive (a ecco ...

oh wow, just built an Up-Pup Precise 5.3.3.3 USB boot stick and it works oh so sweet. Wireless and LAN regcognised and that's how I am writing this, never herd of that pup before but definitely going to be a keeper.

I would have assumed Racey would have had the latest kernel as thats it job i.e ...

OK will check that out, just tested Racey 5.2.2 and no wireless found in there

I thought I had better test my Rescue USB stick out on my new corporate laptop ... Slacko did not even recognise the Broadcom NetXtreme 57XX LAN card let alone the DW1530 Wireless-N card. Its Dell Latitude 5420.

In the process of taking Racey for a spin to see if that helps, but does anyone know of ...

After my hard disk failed on a business trip and all I had to had was a Linux Mag and a USB stick ... worked all week with my Slacko USB stick, Pidgin & SIPE got me into corporate OCS land and Skype kept me touch with my loved ones ... for that, I thank you.

There were a couple of issure, 1, the ...

I did of course mean Slacko 5.3.2.7

OK Big Pup was correct the upgrade process was slick and sweet, just copied the three main files from the new ISO and rebooted! One issue wireless no longer works :-( better head off to the 5.3.7 testing thread.

As for shutting down, still just reboots and does not shut down, I built a Slacko 5.3.7 ...

Just been informed my delivery date is in may long time to wait for some PuPi fun!

Not only is Ziggy the default but it is being very stubborn and no attempt at clicking on classic made any difference at all ... classic option is ignored, does not activate, fails to work etc

Hello there BigPup ... thanks for taking the time to help,

You have a frugal install on a USB flash drive.
Basically, you replace all the old files, with new ones from the newer version, keeping the old save file.
When you boot, with the new version, it will update the save file.

Yes its a ...

Yes I did update the repository info, very pretty yellow box thing going on there did not work

MarkyD68a

Thanks for the contunued input, I am slowly getting there ... I have a Racy build as a VM which I use a lot in my work machine to do stuff and for a giggle loaded in XBMC to test prior to converting my HTPC at home which is struggling with XBMCbuntu (keeps locking up .. another story) ... so thought ...

Thanks for the replies I appreciate the time you take to spread the word.

If Slacko replaces Racy .... am I right that Racy has a more modern Kernel than Slacko?

MarkyD68a

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PARM

this looks like a place for PuPi fans to hang out

Been totally immersed in Puppies for a little while now and been to all the sites and read all I can but there are still a couple of things where i am confused.

Does Slacko relace Lucid? Is it for a different purpose? I get Racy is for newer hardware and is still "buntu" under the hood and Slacko ...

This will be the most "hardcore" Linux thing I have ever done, dont get me wrong been dabling for quite a while and due to dam HD failure Slacko is my day to day OS until I get home and get it sorted (Slacko, 3G MiFi and any piece of junk I can stick my USB drive into ha ha)

Now in X86 world you ...