Fatdog64-700/701 [April 22 2015] [CLOSED]

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SFR · #181 Post by **SFR** » Thu 12 Mar 2015, 10:50

Aung wrote: Everything is OK at shieldup, the ping 's not going to worry me, not doing any Wolves of Wall St. boiler room stuff, AISIO or NSA wont find much.

I'm using this to disable ping response:

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echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all

I have it placed in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
___________

rox-encfs

This package has two groups of right-click entries (in .inode_directory and .inode_mount-point) and when I install an app that also uses /etc/xdg/rox.sourceforge.net/SendTo/ location, these groups may become broken up, e.g.:
...
Add Encryption
Change Password
Open Encrypted Folder
PackIt
Remove Encryption
...
what doesn't look good...

What about prepending, for instance, an INVISIBLE SEPARATOR char to all those entries, what will group them together and place at the bottom of the list, e.g.:

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I=`echo -e '\xe2\x81\xa3'`
cd /etc/xdg/rox.sourceforge.net/SendTo/.inode_directory/
mv "Add Encryption" "${I}Add Encryption"
mv "Change Password" "${I}Change Password"
(and so on...)

Or something similar in principle..?

Greetings!

Semme · #182 Post by **Semme** » Thu 12 Mar 2015, 12:53

Nope. It appears 700 sports the limited driver:

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# iwconfig wlan0 | grep "Tx-Power"
          Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
# iw reg set BO
# iwconfig wlan0 txpower 33
# iwconfig wlan0 | grep "Tx-Power"
          Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm

From FreedomBen, GitHub..

It has been modified to allow you to transmit at up to 33 dBm instead of the stock driver hard limit of 20 dBm, regardless of your CRDA regulatory domain. This is a substantial increase in capability because every 3 dB increase is equivalent to a doubling of the power. IOTW, you can pump out 4x more Tx power than before.

Any help JB?

rcrsn51 · #183 Post by **rcrsn51** » Thu 12 Mar 2015, 13:30

@Semme: There was much discussion in the Tahrpup thread (pg 35) about this group of Realtek PCI drivers in recent kernels.

Phil eventually rebuilt them using the driver from here. These worked better.

Semme · #184 Post by **Semme** » Thu 12 Mar 2015, 14:01

Hey, thanks.. You're a good man rcrsn51.

Now I take if I have the devx, kernel src and git installed I can clone this directory and build the driver?

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git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.git

Does this mean I'd have to unload and possibly blacklist the existing rtl* modules?

I'll try to inform myself in the meantime..

rcrsn51 · #185 Post by **rcrsn51** » Thu 12 Mar 2015, 14:31

Semme wrote:Now I take if I have the devx, kernel src and git installed I can clone this directory and build the driver?

At the bottom of the page, there is a Download ZIP button that gets you the source package.

Does this mean I'd have to unload and possibly blacklist the existing rtl* modules?

IIRC, the new files just over-write the old versions.

Semme · #186 Post by **Semme** » Thu 12 Mar 2015, 16:55

I booted live, loaded my build tools, ran make, then:

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# make install
make -C /lib/modules/3.18.7/build M=/tmp/rtlwifi_new-master modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-3.18.7'
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 14 modules
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-3.18.7'
Making backups
Install rtlwifi SUCCESS!

Good. For: /lib/modules/3.18.7/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192ce/rtl8192ce.ko, props show change, mod and access times as NOW.

Assuming my connection now uses this rtlwifi driver, I hit the wpa_gui, loaded the passwd and got a connection.

While it seems to have held for a while, its signal strength doesn't appear to have improved.

Is there something I left out or need to do in order to bump the speed or strength?

As my first foray into the wonderful world of wireless, I welcome your advice.

rcrsn51 · #187 Post by **rcrsn51** » Thu 12 Mar 2015, 17:30

In the Tahrpup thread, the main problem was drop-outs. Now that you have a build system in place, try the FreedomBen driver instead.

kirk · #188 Post by **kirk** » Thu 12 Mar 2015, 17:42

Semme,

I made a package of the drivers that rcrsn51 linked to. It's here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/packag ... 6_64-1.txz

Can't test it my self.

Semme · #189 Post by **Semme** » Thu 12 Mar 2015, 20:13

Thank you gentlemen.

I couldn't get FreedomBen's driver to compile and haven't yet tried your pkg Kirk.

IPv6 interference? Whadda you guys make'a dis?

/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/wlan0/disable_ipv6 contains the enabled "0" value.

FD has /sbin/sysctl. How could FD boot a disabled value of "one?"

I'll have a play in the meantime..

==

FreedomBen, (inexperienced?) user comment >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 6#p1444976

Hmm, kernel 3.16.1? >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 9#p1447839

I realize we're dealing with a *TOTAL* POS and wouldn't expect any dev to backpedal.

Not quite the same situation, but, unusual to say the least.

What I haven't come across is a ndiswrapper solution.

Give it a go? Hey, I can run with it..

olinm · #190 Post by **olinm** » Thu 12 Mar 2015, 23:54

Everyone needs to update their flash again as load of bad vulnerabilities have been found and patched.

quote:

" Adobe is listing the patch as a top deployment priority for Windows, OS X and Linux systems. "

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/12 ... urity_fix/

Semme · #191 Post by **Semme** » Fri 13 Mar 2015, 00:18

Please..

Everyone..

Place your head between your knees and kiss your... *..

Goodbye!

This is where

we're headed..

rcrsn51 · #192 Post by **rcrsn51** » Fri 13 Mar 2015, 13:16

@Semme: For the benefit of other users, could you report the results of your tests with the new Realtek PCI WiFi driver. Something more than "it seems better" would be helpful.

Semme · #193 Post by **Semme** » Fri 13 Mar 2015, 16:57

Easy big guy, I'm still testing. Kirk, thanks for the build.

What I can comment on is that I think I needed the save environment to reboot after installing Kirks pkg. Seems to have went well as the wireless icon in the tray started spitting out connection notices upon reaching the desktop. I can also say that after covering plenty of threads involving this driver that folks mentioned soso performance unless they were in the same room as their connection box. Living across the way from me I noticed poor reception when there was a wall between us and an instant jump when the only restrictions were windows.

All in all pretty good. So far I haven't undergone any dropouts and their ISP, Optimum, has shown reasonable speeds of 12.68mbp's down, 5.33mbp's up.

@ the moment I'm rather enjoying the experience. An overly twitchy touchpad is the only thing left before handing this baby over..

kirk · #194 Post by **kirk** » Sat 14 Mar 2015, 01:04

An overly twitchy touchpad is the only thing left before handing this baby over..

If "Adjust Touch Pad" on the Desktop tab in the Fatdog64 control panel doesn't help you can try libinput. See:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/faqs/touchpad.html

Ted Dog · #195 Post by **Ted Dog** » Sat 14 Mar 2015, 03:11

lid close problem may be related to X, I found putting killall X early in script suspend.sh allows my laptop to come out of deep sleep (mem) and back to the prompt (for me to type xwin) not the best solution. Changing mem to standby also works (without killall X) but really does not save much energy fan keeps running etc.

Ted Dog · #196 Post by **Ted Dog** » Sat 14 Mar 2015, 03:32

Is removing packages supported before a remaster now?

jamesbond · #197 Post by **jamesbond** » Sat 14 Mar 2015, 16:04

Ted Dog wrote:Is removing packages supported before a remaster now?

It does. When the Rox filer window appears, you're supposed to be able to open a terminal to that folder and do "ROOT=`pwd` removepkg whatever" and that should remove the package, but there is a bug that prevents it from working.

For the time being, you can remove the package normally, and then do the remaster.

@SFR: thanks for pointing that one out. Instead of invisible separator, perhaps I will prefix them with something more visible (but since they're given the same prefix they should remain grouped together).

@olinm: good thing we have that flash updater. Time to use it

@L18L: is there anything I need to do on my side for the serbian locale thing you've been playing with?

L18L · #198 Post by **L18L** » Sat 14 Mar 2015, 18:12

jamesbond wrote:@L18L: is there anything I need to do on my side for the serbian locale thing you've been playing with?

Just for all variants, without colon and with options as you were saying,
Nothing especially for Serbian.

Maybe a "quick keymap switcher" or toggler (if you like it) would be appreciated by GUI-freaks.

The Serbian translator, who needs both, cyr and lat, can use setxkmap in console.

mekalu2k4 · #199 Post by **mekalu2k4** » Sat 14 Mar 2015, 20:48

Hello all,

I am a noob here, for long waited for touch based puppy. Now that Fatdog64 is now touch based, I finally could install this onto my Dell XPS 18inch tablet; working very nicely.

I want to a few packages to this distro [like libre-office, compiz; etc]. However, I have several questions:

1. pets and sfs from puppy linux will work on this? Can I download them and install?

2. i have seen a few packages here http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/sfs/700/
is it the case that only these packages will work on this distro?

3. How to install sfs on fatdog?

4. how to install pet on fatdog?

Thanks in advance!

Aung · #200 Post by **Aung** » Sat 14 Mar 2015, 20:50

SFR I still receive pings, It doesnt worry me much, 007 reckons thats not a problem, maybe something to do with his new config of 'tables. As long as I am not using doze, thats all that matters, but thanks.

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