Thanks Cthisbear! I d'loaded Network Magic - it's a terrific piece of s/ware, so I bought it. Anytime I have problems with access to my network, Network Magic fixes it. :D But nothing seems to fix the SLOOOOW Vista! :evil: I'd buy some extra RAM - mine is only 502Mb - but I'm not confident that will...

Sorry - this ought to be in the non-puppy forum, but I felt I needed to reply to alienjeff. If I lived in a country not very far from a land ruled by Bush and his coterie, and if my country had socialist inclinations, and if my country had a lot of oil, and if my country did not have the wish or pow...

Here's an interesting success story about Linux - tho' it doesn't say which distro is involved.
See it here: http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2326

I teach Seniors how to use their computers - unfortunately windoze.The main problem is often not the menus, but the mouse. With arthritic hands, controlling the mouse is a nightmare.Trackballs are easier - just roll the ball.

Thanks Wombat. I tried that - it's the same as using the Network wizard. Auto DHCP doesn't work for me.
Anyone got any other suggestions?
Puppy is great - CE is great - but Oh! What about wireless?

I'm not 100% beginner - maybe 80%, but 100% when trying to set up a wireless connection. I'm using Puppy 2.15CE-final, on an Acer Aspire 1600 laptop, direct from CD. My wireless adapter is a Netcomm USB NP544 802.11g With WinXP on the laptop the connection is fine - I can connect to a desktop downst...

Thanks Denis and Whodo. I d'loaded (have to do it from Widoze :( ) wpa_supplcant-0.5.7-1 tgz, but it has to be compiled and I hope to avoid that. I d'loaded RC2, but I still have the same problem: Whereas using ndiswrapper with my XP driver works in puppy-pro, it won't work in RC2. What info should ...

RE puppy-215CE-std-RC1: I tried to connect via my wireless router, using ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper says the inf file was successfully installed, but I can't get WAG to do the connection. Rutil didn't work for me, either. I was able to use ndiswrapper etc very successfully with puppy-pro. Is it a kern...

Though I'd share this little bit of experience. I just got a new desktop - Acer - and, alas, it came with Vista Home already installed. :( After a few days, Vista is driving me crazy - it acts like a policeman and tells me I can't access this or that. The machine is wireless-networked to my laptop, ...

Sorry if anyone or any religion felt insulted. :oops: That was not my intention. I really couldn't see (and still can't) the point of Puppies that were aimed at a section of the community chosen for their beliefs rather than for computing needs. To me that means that Grafpup makes sense, Creatorpup ...

Although I'm not a Christian, I guess I have a right to comment on the proposed Christian Puppy. I really can't see the point of it. If a Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, Taoist etc wants a decent Linux, she/he will find Puppy. Then she/he can download texts of Bibles, Korans, To...

Thanks, Puppian

Is there a version for Simplified characters?
Or is there a dotpup for them - can I use the dotpup mentioned in puppian's posting of June 9?
Thanks.

I have a shutdown problem - Acer Aspire 1600 laptop. the machine shuts down to a black screen shortly after booting, sometimes after half an hour, sometimes sooner. If I reboot immediately, it shuts down again. If I wait 15 minutes and reboot, it stays on for the rest of the day, which suggests that...

I'm running Puppy 109CE on my Compaq Presario 1600 Series. 4GB H/disk, 256Mb memory. Ancient 2-button PS2 Mouse. USB flash drive detected OK. :) Installed on Hard Disk. Goes like a dream! :D I tried 2.02, but it wouldn't recognise my PS2 mouse.:( Puppy revived my dead Cmpq Pres. The Floppy drive is ...

I am currently using 1.0.9CE successfully, from a HD install.
If I install Puppy2 to HD, will it preserve my applications and data from 1.0.9?

Thanks Mark - for an incredibly quick response!

Sorry folks. I just saw another post suggesting to set chmod for executability on Java.bin, so I'll have to go home and see if I have Java.bin.

I installed the java1506.pup on my Compaq Presario laptop (which is old, like me) and, since installing Puppy, is wondeful (like me!). It creates a nice icon on the desktop :) , but when I open it it requires a download from the Internet. I don't have a net connection on the laptop :( - I d'load .pu...

MU: my comments were not meant for you: I understood what you were saying! My remarks were aimed at Sit Heel Speak. I wish he would sit, heel, and learn from the experiences recounted by Holocaust survivors and decent historians. I wonder if he has been absorbing the work of pseudo-historian and Naz...