I have created a Ruby DotPet to install Ruby 1.8.7-p72. This is the latest official production version of Ruby with the latest security patch as of Oct 24, 2008. There is a release 1.9.0, but that release is still in development and is buggy. I was for example unable to get it to work with rails. Ru...

Hi,

I have encountered this problem. You are getting the error because gem is trying to access your developer tools, particularly the file sqlite3.h. You need to install devx_xxx.sfs for your puppy to correct the problem.

Paul

Hi,

If I create a new dotpet, how do I contribute it so that it eventually show up in the community repository like dotpup.de. There should be a sticky for this in this forum.

Paul

Some nice to have feature in the future would be: 1. The ability to get a list of scan address in the area and then selected it and let it generate a profile (automatically use open, WEP, or WPA). Right now, that feature doesn't work all that well. 2. Allow you to build a priority list, so that if a...

Flash device have a limited life cycle. You can only write to it x number of times before it bellys up. It may be as little as 10,000 times. If you use the flash key as a swap space, it will quickly burn out the flash drive.

mcgregor, Can you tell me what sort of problem you are having? 1. Did you install the 3 dotpet: the network profile, the new rt61 driver, and the patched wpa_supplicant? 2. Does the driver work on an open connection (without the WPA)? Unfortunately, my rt73 laptop has died, so diagnosing your proble...

Sorry, I have been away for a bit. tempestuous, Since you have made changes to the script, can you make the change to the DotPet and uploaded to Barry? I have no idea how to do this yet. I was planning to do this earlier, but my laptop died and I had to get another one. --- As for better scanning ut...

The trouble with Atheros is that there seemed to be a million variation of them. I recently purchased an Acer 3680. Various Linux people have recommended the machine. I failed to load the wireless using madwifi or ndiswrapper (made more difficult because the machine come with Vista so I had to downl...

Hey,

Are you sure it's Hostap? I also have a DWL-G650 PCMCIA card, and it's an Atheros. I basically loaded it by typing modprobe ath_pci.

What do you get when you type dmesg?

That was my feeling in regards to the driver selection, too. However, I am guessing that there were problems with auto-detection.

Recently, I stuck boot a laptop that was using Fedora 7 using Puppy Linux. However, Puppy was unable to look at any of the partitions except boot. I think it may be because Fedora defaults to LVM. I assume that puppy does not work with LVM?

The FAT system would have died an early death years ago if it were not for these flash drive and cards.

Not sure. One possibility is that when you plug in a drive and it is in ext mode, Puppy may not look for a pups_save file there because it assumes that you will use the USB's native file system.

tempestuous, He does have a good point, network setup is a weakness in most distribution of Linux. There could be an improvement in how the network manager works. I doubt that we'll ever be as slick as PClinux though, the distro's design is so consistent, I wondered if it was done entirely by one pe...

Can you describe what's great about it? I recall that it will allow you to select the windows driver from the windows parition?

According to this page:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=107832

The RT61 1.1.0-b2 beta was release on April 30, 2007, so it is not that old.

The RT2570 1.1.0-b2 on the other hand is from last 2006, so may be it is too old.

Paul

Those popups are probably their security system asking the user for permission to do something.

What Microsoft needs to do is to fine-tune that system. It's not a bad idea, but if you automatically click accept when it pops up, it's not going to protect you.

OK, here's compile RT61 and RT2570 as dotpets. Since I don't have either wireless, I am unable to test them. I assume that they will work similarly to rt73. Note that both driver (if they work) will only work with the patched wpa_supplicant 0.58 that's in the first post. Neither driver will work wit...

I'm sorry if I'm getting this all wrong, but I looked through all three files of the net-setup package and couldn't find any of the strings "ath" and "ipw" -- but did find "wext" and "hostap"... Or is it somewhere in the firmware packages? According to the sc...