Slacko Puppy 5.3.1 Released

[Jasper]

Hi arcanis,

I'm using Slacko 5.3 main and I installed "wbar" , without any problems, using the method I suggested.

Here a screenshot of some of my installed packages, including wbar.

If installed you should get a similar view and you should also see it under the Desktop section of the Menu.

Please say which Slacko version you are using and whether a full, frugal etc, installation.

I'm around for the next half hour, but not for some days ahead, but someone will surely help you if I can't.

My regards

ADDENDUM:

I apologise that apparently I may have installed wbar from a different source (though I have no such memory) since the version in my screenshot is later than the version shown using the Slacko Package Manager search box.

[Lobster]

In Slacko Release Candidate I did use the Lucid pet successfully
but that is not ideal . . . so I used the 'jasper method'
and have a wbar config but no wbar (missing dependency see below)
There may also be missing fonts

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# wbar
wbar: error while loading shared libraries: libImlib2.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# 

Wot no bar?

[DaveS]

Arcanis, to restore JWM, try exit to prompt (ctrl+alt+backspace), and type at the prompt

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xwin jwm

[smthers]

@tasmod many thanks for the script. However it doesn't update the time on boot, but it will if I restart x server. Any ideas?

[tasmod]

smthers,

I'll dig out my old laptop which has wireless and take a look see what I can do.

[smthers]

smthers,

I'll dig out my old laptop which has wireless and take a look see what I can do.

Wow, cheers bud.

[tasmod]

All,

Ok, only being familiar with basic wireless setup I need some help from knowledgeable wifi users.

To test whether connection was up I was checking for ip_tables as the guide.

Is there some straightforward way to check the wi-fi connection is active and working as well?

I lsmod my own wi-fi and could only find ath5 as a pointer, obviously this would be different for each user, so no real use. i need to check for active wi-fi so Psync can then run in autostart.

[jim3630]

All,

Ok, only being familiar with basic wireless setup I need some help from knowledgeable wifi users.

To test whether connection was up I was checking for ip_tables as the guide.

Is there some straightforward way to check the wi-fi connection is active and working as well?

I lsmod my own wi-fi and could only find ath5 as a pointer, obviously this would be different for each user, so no real use. i need to check for active wi-fi so Psync can then run in autostart.

tasmod,

ifconfig -a will show active interfaces.

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from ppm ettercap will show nice graphics of active interface, actually a quantifiable graphics of active interfaces.

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from ppm iftop is another nice one.

console:
iftop -i <interface> in my case wlan0

then toggle with "h"

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may not be in slacko repo but this one should work. works in racy just remove phony gz.
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removed iftop as does not work in slacko-pae

[tasmod]

jim,

Thanks for tip. I only need a simple one liner type, I don't want to install anything else.

I had been using ifconfig this morning to determine the active interfaces.

I started up my old laptop and used Frisbee to get wifi working. That's when I discovered a glitch with this method. ifconfig shows active interfaces but not necessarily connected ones.

Using Frisbee I can turn wifi on and off but this doesn't affect ifconfig.

iwconfig does however show the wifi ESSID when connected and removes it when not, so I'm working on that at the moment in between html etc etc. Too many calls on my time just now.

[tasmod]

smthers,

Try this one, I've tested it on my wired and wireless 'puters. It should distinguish between either.

In the case of wifi, although it tests out OK I added an extra 10 second sleep just to be sure it's up before running Psync autostart.

As before rename by removing .tar.gz and place in /root/Startup

Oh and don't forget to check permissions are set, right click, then properties and ticks should be on exec.

[jim3630]

jim,

Thanks for tip. I only need a simple one liner type, I don't want to install anything else.

I had been using ifconfig this morning to determine the active interfaces.

I started up my old laptop and used Frisbee to get wifi working. That's when I discovered a glitch with this method. ifconfig shows active interfaces but not necessarily connected ones.

Using Frisbee I can turn wifi on and off but this doesn't affect ifconfig.

iwconfig does however show the wifi ESSID when connected and removes it when not, so I'm working on that at the moment in between html etc etc. Too many calls on my time just now.

Rob,

understand about too many calls. don't recall any one line types.probable some code can show tx or rx rate since that is displayed in the program it must have a source.

in slacko pae now and iftop does not work here.

[tasmod]

Hi Jim,

I went with the ESSID in iwconfig, along with a conditional check for either wired or wireless.

If it doesn't find wi-fi it just runs anyway.

If it finds wi-fi it loops until ESSID active then runs Psync autostart. Although it worked fine on my wi-fi laptop, just to be sure i added a 10 second sleep before psync ran.

[jim3630]

Hi Jim,

I went with the ESSID in iwconfig, along with a conditional check for either wired or wireless.

If it doesn't find wi-fi it just runs anyway.

If it finds wi-fi it loops until ESSID active then runs Psync autostart. Although it worked fine on my wi-fi laptop, just to be sure i added a 10 second sleep before psync ran.

Hi Rob,
both are handy. ESSID indicator in iwconfig is built-in and that's good to know. noticed have to reset clock in slacko couple of times so far will try out your script. thanks

[8-bit]

I do not know if this would help, but a utility I had made called "system information" has a button for Wireless Interfaces that seems to give a lot of information on what it finds for the WIFI interface.
If you do not have it, it can be found here.

It also will list all kernel modules loaded. but it does not give as much detailed information as HardInfo.

[tasmod]

Well 4 people downloaded so far.

Is that to look at my crappy code or is it working for you ?

[jim3630]

Well 4 people downloaded so far.

Is that to look at my crappy code or is it working for you ?

so far works for me.

[smthers]

Well 4 people downloaded so far.

Is that to look at my crappy code or is it working for you ?

Appreciate the effort you went to but it's still not working for me - sorry!

As before, if I restart X it works its magic, but not on a cold boot.

[tasmod]

Don't understand that.

When you first boot, X is started then Startup contents are run.

I'll mod the code to write to a file so we can see what's happening.

How are you checking what happens, Psync autostart is silent?

Try this one. After you have installed it, reboot, wait till desktop then about another minute. There should be a text file called robs as /tmp/robs.
See what is in it, beware do not post contents unless you don't mind your ESSID name being shown.

EDIT:
Just run it on both my machines, wired and wireless. Works faultless, I reset clocks 3 minutes slow in each case and at boot it adjusted them.
When it's run there should be a 'settertime' file as well in /tmp. This shows it has run.
After all checks above, run it manually and check the version. Should be 2.7

[smthers]

@tasmod that did the trick. Many thanks!

[tasmod]

Erm, that doesn't compute. All I did was add lines sending text to a file for reporting purposes.

The rest of the code was same as previous, so in effect nothing altered.

Odd!

OK, well I'll add this to Psync v2.8 as it doesn't hurt anything, it should improve Psync autostart for slow wifi startups. For wired it makes no difference.

I'll remove the code lines for file write.