Carolina: Vanguard Edition Release 2 December 2014

[Gobbi]

Another request, the VLC included in Lina doesnt load subtitles (i think is 2.0.0 by Billtoo)

It does load subtitles but they are tiny, tiny,tiny ...
I partially solved this problem changing fonts and font size under : Tools/Preferences/Subtitles/ . Note that you should fix this both in Simple and All interfaces ( there should be a bug here if it is not done automatically ) .
I said partially because it is not persistent , but since I don't use savefile - in the remastered ISO - the first instances of VLC play subtitles well .
@Biltoo's VLC is the only one that plays my favorite webcam in wallpaper mode - instead of background ... I couldn't do it with no other VLC in puppyland .

@battleshooter - the patch and link you provided some months ago were helpful to install the latest AMD Proprietary on Vanguard Lina R2 . Thank you again !

[TTW]

After using Saluki since its inception I thought I would finally give Carolina a spin.

Booted up beautifully and I love the look and feel. One major problem though is no wifi.

Booting Saluki my wifi network is found straightaway. On Carolina no such luck. Seems it can't see my Broadcom card. Disappointed.

TTW

[mikeslr]

Hi TTW,

See Billtoo's post: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 077#814620

because I'm not sure this helps? http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 281#626281

Note the instructions for Carolina 03. I think, but am not sure, if peebee was referring to Carolina 1.3, not Vanguard.

mikesLr

[battleshooter]

After using Saluki since its inception I thought I would finally give Carolina a spin.

Booted up beautifully and I love the look and feel. One major problem though is no wifi.

Booting Saluki my wifi network is found straightaway. On Carolina no such luck. Seems it can't see my Broadcom card. Disappointed.

TTW

Odd, I thought the Broadcom issue was resolved awhile ago. As Mike pointed out in the old post did a reboot resolve anything? Though I'm not sure why that would make a difference.

What's the model number for the Broadcom device?

[TTW]

Odd, I thought the Broadcom issue was resolved awhile ago. As Mike pointed out in the old post did a reboot resolve anything? Though I'm not sure why that would make a difference.

What's the model number for the Broadcom device?

Yes I thought I had read that the Broadcom issues were resolved. I had high hopes particularly as I never had a single problem using Saluki and I just assumed that as this was a fork from Saluki then it would be easy too.

I didn't reboot - it was late last night but will do so tonight.

I will post my Broadcom stats later when I get home.

I will also do an MD5 on the ISO just in case.

TTW

[TTW]

Didn't get a chance until now.
Reboot had no effect although I didn't create a savefile so not sure if that was necessary.

Output of lspci -knn when using Saluki - where my broadcom was always found by Frisbee:

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:0510]
Kernel driver in use: brcmsmac

Any ideas gratefully received.

TTW

[TTW]

Update:
MD5 Checksum is good

Rebooted a number of times including with a save file - still fails to find my wifi network

Loaded and unloaded all the Broadcom drivers found under the network manager - none of them found my wifi connection

Frisbee and network manager both still say no Wifi controller or connection available.

I checked out the post linked to by Mike but to be honest got confused as to which pets I should download for Vanguard Caroline.

Any help gratefully received

TTW

[battleshooter]

Update:
MD5 Checksum is good

Rebooted a number of times including with a save file - still fails to find my wifi network

Loaded and unloaded all the Broadcom drivers found under the network manager - none of them found my wifi connection

Frisbee and network manager both still say no Wifi controller or connection available.

I checked out the post linked to by Mike but to be honest got confused as to which pets I should download for Vanguard Caroline.

Any help gratefully received

TTW

Ugh, well that's a bummer. For diagnosis, can you please post the results of System -> Lighthouse sys-info?

[peebee]

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:0510]
Kernel driver in use: brcmsmac

See: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drive ... ed_devices

14e4:4727 is not supported by b43 driver and the warning is given "BCM4313 is not fully supported" for the brcm80211 driver.

So you probably do need the proprietary wl driver - which is kernel specific and I don't think has been compiled for the 3.18.1 kernel..... I can provide sources if somebody wants to try.

LxPup15.06 has the wl driver available as an option - so it would be interesting to know if your wifi worked there.

[TTW]

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14e4:4727 is not supported by b43 driver and the warning is given "BCM4313 is not fully supported" for the brcm80211 driver.

So you probably do need the proprietary wl driver - which is kernel specific and I don't think has been compiled for the 3.18.1 kernel..... I can provide sources if somebody wants to try.

I would be willing to try and compile it however I have never compiled anything before so will need an idiots set of step by step instructions and list of what I need to make it work.

TTW

[peebee]

I would be willing to try and compile it however I have never compiled anything before so will need an idiots set of step by step instructions and list of what I need to make it work.

TTW

Sources: http://www.filepup.net/files/9OaEYt1437814184.html

On a Linux formatted partition or savefile (not ntfs or fat):

Download and extract source (will be in folder wl223.248-patched-k4)
Install both devx and kernel-sources for Carolina: Vanguard Edition Release 2 December 2014 (download from bottom of post #1 of this thread)
In a terminal, navigate to the above folder
type: make
move wl.ko when created to /lib/modules/3.18.1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
in a terminal type: depmod -a
then: modprobe wl
then: lsmod
and check wl has loaded successfully
reboot
if wl is not loaded (check with lsmod) you may need to manually load it and reboot again

Cheers
peebee

[TTW]

Sources: http://www.filepup.net/files/9OaEYt1437814184.html

On a Linux formatted partition or savefile (not ntfs or fat):

Download and extract source (will be in folder wl223.248-patched-k4)
Install both devx and kernel-sources for Carolina: Vanguard Edition Release 2 December 2014 (download from bottom of post #1 of this thread)
In a terminal, navigate to the above folder
type: make
move wl.ko when created to /lib/modules/3.18.1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
in a terminal type: depmod -a
then: modprobe wl
then: lsmod
and check wl has loaded successfully
reboot
if wl is not loaded (check with lsmod) you may need to manually load it and reboot again

Cheers
peebee

Thanks Peebee - I hope you have lots of patience I'm IT literate but have never done anything like this before.

Progress so far:
I now have folder wl223.248-patched-k4
I have downloaded devx and kernel-sources for Carolina: Vanguard Edition and know where to find them

Assumption:
I put the two devx and kernel-sources sfs in my Carolina folder where the puppy_vlina_1.3.sfs is so they will load on booting Carolina Vanguard.

"In a terminal, navigate to the above folder " - can you explain how this is done please. The path is sda7/Broadcom/wl223.248-patched-k4

Thanks again

TTW

[TTW]

Update:

I worked out how to use the sfs manager to load the dev and kernal sfs files

I then worked out how to open the terminal in the right directors.

so far so good.

Now I used the make command and got the following output:

# make
KBUILD_NOPEDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/3.18.1/build M=`pwd`
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux'
CFG80211 API is prefered for this kernel version
Using CFG80211 API
Kernel architecture is X86_32
LD /mnt/sda7/Broadcom/wl223.248-patched-k4/built-in.o
CC [M] /mnt/sda7/Broadcom/wl223.248-patched-k4/src/shared/linux_osl.o
CC [M] /mnt/sda7/Broadcom/wl223.248-patched-k4/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.o
CC [M] /mnt/sda7/Broadcom/wl223.248-patched-k4/src/wl/sys/wl_iw.o
CC [M] /mnt/sda7/Broadcom/wl223.248-patched-k4/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211_hybrid.o
LD [M] /mnt/sda7/Broadcom/wl223.248-patched-k4/wl.o
Building modules, stage 2.
CFG80211 API is prefered for this kernel version
Using CFG80211 API
Kernel architecture is X86_32
MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: modpost: Found 1 section mismatch(es).
To see full details build your kernel with:
'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y'
CC /mnt/sda7/Broadcom/wl223.248-patched-k4/wl.mod.o
LD [M] /mnt/sda7/Broadcom/wl223.248-patched-k4/wl.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux'

I ignored the WARNING and checked modprobe:
# modprobe wl
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
wl 6071857 0
cpufreq_powersave 602 4
cpufreq_ondemand 5685 0
fan 2802 0
arc4 1428 2
brcmsmac 417528 0
mac80211 218703 1 brcmsmac
brcmutil 3233 1 brcmsmac
cfg80211 151619 3 wl,brcmsmac,mac80211
cordic 772 1 brcmsmac
mmc_block 19558 0
btusb 16260 0
bluetooth 200357 2 btusb
bcma 27130 2 brcmsmac
uvcvideo 53680 0
videobuf2_core 23619 1 uvcvideo
v4l2_common 3187 1 videobuf2_core
videodev 79305 3 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core,v4l2_common
media 7914 2 uvcvideo,videodev
videobuf2_vmalloc 1860 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 1163 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
snd_hda_codec_realtek 43807 1
snd_hda_codec_generic 34990 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek
serio_raw 3097 0
pcspkr 1351 0
rtsx_pci_sdmmc 7589 0
mmc_core 65628 2 mmc_block,rtsx_pci_sdmmc
rtsx_pci_ms 3894 0
memstick 4464 1 rtsx_pci_ms
snd_hda_intel 15743 4
snd_hda_controller 12771 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec 63015 4 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_hwdep 4003 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 27441 0
snd_mixer_oss 9846 3 snd_pcm_oss
r8169 50096 0
rtsx_pci 20339 2 rtsx_pci_sdmmc,rtsx_pci_ms
snd_pcm 54657 4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 959 0
snd_seq_oss 19857 0
snd_seq_midi 3336 0
snd_rawmidi 12393 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 3800 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 33025 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
i2c_i801 11161 0
lpc_ich 12220 0
i915 643217 2
snd_timer 12021 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 3668 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 35830 17 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
joydev 6371 0
drm_kms_helper 50326 1 i915
soundcore 3299 4 snd_hda_codec,snd
drm 169851 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
shpchp 17830 0
i2c_algo_bit 3704 1 i915
acer_wmi 9421 0
sparse_keymap 2062 1 acer_wmi
rfkill 10430 3 cfg80211,bluetooth,acer_wmi
intel_agp 8164 0
intel_gtt 8710 3 i915,intel_agp
agpgart 18150 3 drm,intel_agp,intel_gtt
wmi 5779 1 acer_wmi
battery 10642 0
evdev 6916 10
video 10238 2 i915,acer_wmi
thermal 6703 0
acpi_cpufreq 5250 1
processor 20161 1 acpi_cpufreq
thermal_sys 14590 4 fan,video,thermal,processor
hwmon 1926 1 thermal_sys
ac 3481 0
button 3457 1 i915
fuse 57309 3
aufs 139288 1979
squashfs 19234 5
#

Seemed that I had wl right at the top so did a reboot.

An voila - OMG - I now have visible wifi network.
Easy to use frisbee to connect and start firefox

I am now using Carolina Vanguard to post this update


Peebee thank you so much for your patience and clear instructions. If I can feed this back to the community then I will. Is it possible to make a PET for other users? I never did that either but I'm so spurred on with today's success that I am willing to try and share my success for the benefit of others.

Thanks again - Puppy is the best Linux distro

Cheers
TTW

[TTW]

Just want to thank everyone for their help and apologise for the length of my last post.

TTW

[peebee]

An voila - OMG - I now have visible wifi network.
Is it possible to make a PET for other users? I never did that either but I'm so spurred on with today's success that I am willing to try and share my success for the benefit of others.

Thanks again - Puppy is the best Linux distro

Cheers
TTW

Congrats! Well done.
Yes - you can now make a pet...........make a folder with a suitable name and put into it the full directory tree starting at /lib and down to wl.ko in /lib/modules/3.18.1/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

then use dir2pet on the folder to make a pet.

Cheers
peebee

[Geoffrey]

Updates and fixes for Carolina Vanguard R2
vlina_xfce_4.12_updates_and_fixes-08082015.pet
This should be ok to upgrade an existing save file, the changes can not be uninstalled, backup your save file first.

• Upgrade to XFCE 4.12
• Added box_splash, updated gtkdialog-splash, now uses notify-send for notifications.
• Fixed a resulting problem of notification looping in PPM when checking for dependencies.
• Updated Whisker Menu, now has a user image, clicking image shows gui to change image and change computer name.
• Updated "bash" to version 4.3.39
• Updated "ln" to ln (GNU coreutils) 8.23
• Added create-sym, create Relative and Absolute links in the Thunar right-click menu
• Updated Simple File Sharing
• Added xclip version 0.12
• Added Copy Path to Thunar right-click menu
• Updated gvfs mounts, now thunar can be used as a ftp client eg. ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux
• Removed thunar wallpaper plugin, doesn't work with xfce 4.12 .

Might pay to try this with a new save first to be sure that it's working as advertised

It seems to be working fine for me, to check that the thunar ftp is working try this address in the thunar path entry, ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux

[p310don]

I installed the update Geoffrey and now my cairo dock causes an issue wherever it is on the screen, with a box on the left ( my cairo dock auto hides on the left).

Is there an easy fix for this, or should I restore my save file to fix?

[Geoffrey]

I installed the update Geoffrey and now my cairo dock causes an issue wherever it is on the screen, with a box on the left ( my cairo dock auto hides on the left).

Is there an easy fix for this, or should I restore my save file to fix?

In the control panel > Windows Manager Tweaks > Compositor, turn off " Show shadows under dock windows" that will fix it.

[Terry H]

Applied update.pet, all working well. Only minor issue was 2 launchers in Panel wouldn't execute (Control Panel and Terminal). Easily fixed and working now.

Great work Geoffrey. Thank you.

[p310don]

In the control panel > Windows Manager Tweaks > Compositor, turn off " Show shadows under dock windows" that will fix it.

Thanks Geoff. That sorted it out perfectly.

Next problem. I installed something (can't remember which, but might have been xfce task manager) that screwed up my menu. A couple of the menu entries are now in the wrong order. See attached.

How do I fix this?