BionicDog (updated: 2018-06-04)
For who is interested, here's a fork of BionicDog: "MBPUP" by mbinnun:
https://github.com/mbinnun/MBPUP#mbpup- ... buntu-1804
(mbinnun informed me kindly about it through e-mail)
It includes a full LXDE Desktop (like Lubuntu) and more applications, so resulting in a larger ISO size.
Fred
https://github.com/mbinnun/MBPUP#mbpup- ... buntu-1804
(mbinnun informed me kindly about it through e-mail)
It includes a full LXDE Desktop (like Lubuntu) and more applications, so resulting in a larger ISO size.
Fred
MBPUP mirrored here:
http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_MBPUP
could somebody post a screen shot, I've borrowed a Lubuntu one for now
http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_MBPUP
could somebody post a screen shot, I've borrowed a Lubuntu one for now
Hi ally, attached pically wrote:MBPUP mirrored here:
http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_MBPUP
could somebody post a screen shot, I've borrowed a Lubuntu one for now
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Hello watchdog, thanks for the feedback !watchdog wrote:Thanks Fred! Tested StretchDog and BionicDog with satisfaction for all my basic needs. I was not able to set levels of the audio mixer in Bionic via alsamixer: how to set mic source? I installed retrovol to do this and it somehow worked.
Good you solved by installing retrovol, anyway, how to do with alsamixer:
- Press F4 for "Capture"
- Select "Mic" with arrow buttons (< >)
- Enable by pressing SPACE key
See pic below.
Fred
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Downloaded BionicDog and made a manual frugal install. Booted fine and played a while with it.
- won't recognize my usb gprs modem (appears as sr1 in file manager)
- after saving and doing a reboot, the sound was gone
- couldn't find a program to setup sound card (choose sound card in alsa mixer didn't change anything)
- won't recognize my usb gprs modem (appears as sr1 in file manager)
- after saving and doing a reboot, the sound was gone
- couldn't find a program to setup sound card (choose sound card in alsa mixer didn't change anything)
Hi ITSYOURSH , welcome back RSH !
Install with Synaptic or from terminal using apt-get:
Fred
I don't have knowledge about that, hopefully someone else can answer maybe ?- won't recognize my usb gprs modem (appears as sr1 in file manager)
That's strange that the sound was gone, there's program from rcrsn51 in repo: sound-card-selector, it might help solving the problem (run after install from Menu > System)- after saving and doing a reboot, the sound was gone
- couldn't find a program to setup sound card (choose sound card in alsa mixer didn't change anything)
Install with Synaptic or from terminal using apt-get:
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apt-get update # might be required
apt-get install sound-card-selector
Hi RSH,ITSMERSH wrote: - won't recognize my usb gprs modem (appears as sr1 in file manager)
I had a Huawei usb gprs modem (I think it was E1550, I am not sure though.
It would show as sr1.
Had to install usb-modeswitch from fatdog's package manager.
It changed it back to /dev/ttyUSB0.
Here's description of usb-modeswitch in Fatdog's package manager
usb-modeswitch 2.4.0 (GPRS/3D USB modem switcher)
USB ModeSwitch is a mode switching tool for controlling
multi-mode USB devices. Many USB devices (especially GPRS/3G
modems have their MS Windows drivers onboard. These devices,
when plugged in for the first time, will present a USB flash
storage contaniing Windows drivers. After installation these
Windows drivers will switch the mode and activate a new device
(the real modem interface). USB modeswitch enable similar mode
switch for Linux users.
http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch
Thanks drunkjedi,
To add..., usb-modeswitch package is also available from Debian/Ubuntu, description:
To add..., usb-modeswitch package is also available from Debian/Ubuntu, description:
Fredmode switching tool for controlling "flip flop" USB devices
Several new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard,
especially WAN dongles. When plugged in for the first time, they act
like a flash storage and start installing the driver from there. If
the driver is already installed, the storage device vanishes and
a new device, such as an USB modem, shows up. This is called the
"ZeroCD" feature.
On Debian, this is not needed, since the driver is included as a
Linux kernel module, such as "usbserial". However, the device still
shows up as "usb-storage" by default. usb-modeswitch solves that
issue by sending the command which actually performs the switching
of the device from "usb-storage" to "usbserial".
This package contains the binaries and the brother scripts.
Thanks drunkjedi & fredx181.
I'd downloaded usb-modeswitch-2.5.2+repack0-2ubuntu1-beaver from bionic beaver repository using my tahr based puppy. Since this comes with different libs compared to bionic I downloaded all dependencies which resulted in these files:
libpipeline1_1.5.0-1_i386.deb
usb-modeswitch_2.5.2+repack0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
usb-modeswitch-data_20170806-2_all.deb
gcc-8-base_8-20180414-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
libc6_2.27-3ubuntu1_i386.deb
libgcc1_8-20180414-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
libudev1_237-3ubuntu10_i386.deb
libusb-1.0-0_1.0.21-2_i386.deb
Made a first test using upupbb 18.05 which was successful.
After installing these files:
libpipeline1_1.5.0-1_i386.deb
usb-modeswitch_2.5.2+repack0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
usb-modeswitch-data_20170806-2_all.deb
the gprs usb modem didn't appear anymore as sr1 on the desktop. Instead it appears as /dev/ttyUSB0 in rerwin's gprs-connect (luckily it was installed) and made me able to connect to the web immediately (after setting up the APN and choose phone number).
After installing above listed files into BionicDog I couldn't find anything to setup APN and phone number etc.
What would I need to do to connect to the web then?
I'd downloaded usb-modeswitch-2.5.2+repack0-2ubuntu1-beaver from bionic beaver repository using my tahr based puppy. Since this comes with different libs compared to bionic I downloaded all dependencies which resulted in these files:
libpipeline1_1.5.0-1_i386.deb
usb-modeswitch_2.5.2+repack0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
usb-modeswitch-data_20170806-2_all.deb
gcc-8-base_8-20180414-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
libc6_2.27-3ubuntu1_i386.deb
libgcc1_8-20180414-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
libudev1_237-3ubuntu10_i386.deb
libusb-1.0-0_1.0.21-2_i386.deb
Made a first test using upupbb 18.05 which was successful.
After installing these files:
libpipeline1_1.5.0-1_i386.deb
usb-modeswitch_2.5.2+repack0-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
usb-modeswitch-data_20170806-2_all.deb
the gprs usb modem didn't appear anymore as sr1 on the desktop. Instead it appears as /dev/ttyUSB0 in rerwin's gprs-connect (luckily it was installed) and made me able to connect to the web immediately (after setting up the APN and choose phone number).
After installing above listed files into BionicDog I couldn't find anything to setup APN and phone number etc.
What would I need to do to connect to the web then?
Getting Sound on a Toshiba Satellite L775d
Hi fred & All,
Much to my pleasant surprise I was able to boot a USB-Key installed BionicDog 64-bit to a workable desktop on my wife's Toshiba Satellite L775d Laptop. With two exceptions everything worked OOTB.
The first exception was WIFI. My network was seen (which tells me that the proper firmware and drivers are present) but it uses WEP encryption. If someone can assure me –from actual experience-- that peasywifi will accept and use a WEP password, I'll make another stab at following its instructions.
My work-around was to install frisbee_1.2-20170928dd64_mod_amd64.deb which had either been built for StretchDog64, or I had stored it in a folder of debs useful to StretchDog64.
Other than wondering whether there was a specific version of frisbee for BionicDog64, that left only the absence of sound. I am certain that there must be drivers and firmware for BionicDog64*, as sound worked OOTB on the 32-bit upup BionicBeaver.
Could someone kindly provide instructions for determining what sound related devices are on the Toshiba, what drivers and firmware are need for them, and how to install those.
I could provide a report from PupSysInfo under BionicBeaver, but think it would be better if in the future I could find out this information in the absence of PupSysInfo.
Thanks in advance,
mikesLr
*Sound also fails on StretchDog64, but as I didn't try dpup-stretch on the Toshiba, I don't know whether there are debian drivers and firmware. Probably, but less certainly.
Much to my pleasant surprise I was able to boot a USB-Key installed BionicDog 64-bit to a workable desktop on my wife's Toshiba Satellite L775d Laptop. With two exceptions everything worked OOTB.
The first exception was WIFI. My network was seen (which tells me that the proper firmware and drivers are present) but it uses WEP encryption. If someone can assure me –from actual experience-- that peasywifi will accept and use a WEP password, I'll make another stab at following its instructions.
My work-around was to install frisbee_1.2-20170928dd64_mod_amd64.deb which had either been built for StretchDog64, or I had stored it in a folder of debs useful to StretchDog64.
Other than wondering whether there was a specific version of frisbee for BionicDog64, that left only the absence of sound. I am certain that there must be drivers and firmware for BionicDog64*, as sound worked OOTB on the 32-bit upup BionicBeaver.
Could someone kindly provide instructions for determining what sound related devices are on the Toshiba, what drivers and firmware are need for them, and how to install those.
I could provide a report from PupSysInfo under BionicBeaver, but think it would be better if in the future I could find out this information in the absence of PupSysInfo.
Thanks in advance,
mikesLr
*Sound also fails on StretchDog64, but as I didn't try dpup-stretch on the Toshiba, I don't know whether there are debian drivers and firmware. Probably, but less certainly.
Re: Getting Sound on a Toshiba Satellite L775d
Yes it does.mikeslr wrote:If someone can assure me –from actual experience-- that peasywifi will accept and use a WEP password,
As you know, there are variations of the WEP key. For example, 5 alpha-numeric characters WITH quotes or 10 hex digits WITHOUT quotes.
Click the Check button and verify your profile.
Last edited by rcrsn51 on Fri 04 May 2018, 16:22, edited 1 time in total.
I would try to use the installed wvdial. Here an example of wvdial.conf:ITSMERSH wrote: After installing above listed files into BionicDog I couldn't find anything to setup APN and phone number etc.
What would I need to do to connect to the web then?
Code: Select all
[Dialer Defaults]
Init1 = ATZ
Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
Init3 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet.wind"
Carrier Check = yes
Modem Type = Analog Modem
Baud = 460800
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
ISDN = 0
Phone = *99***1#
Password = ''
Username = ''
Stupid Mode = 0
No reply?fredx181 wrote:That's strange that the sound was gone, there's program from rcrsn51 in repo: sound-card-selector, it might help solving the problem (run after install from Menu > System)- after saving and doing a reboot, the sound was gone
- couldn't find a program to setup sound card (choose sound card in alsa mixer didn't change anything)
Install with Synaptic or from terminal using apt-get:Code: Select all
apt-get update # might be required apt-get install sound-card-selector
Re: Getting Sound on a Toshiba Satellite L775d
No reply?rcrsn51 wrote:Yes it does.mikeslr wrote:If someone can assure me –from actual experience-- that peasywifi will accept and use a WEP password,
As you know, there are variations of the WEP key. For example, 5 alpha-numeric characters WITH quotes or 10 hex digits WITHOUT quotes.
Click the Check button and verify your profile.