Network Wizard bug fixes
This is great! The Network Wizard has been languishing for quite a while, with some unresolved issues. Shinobar and some guys at the Japanese Puppy Forum have been fixing some bugs and have posted a new package:http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=53354
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Hey Hey It's Saturday is returning!
My life will once more have meaning!If you are Australian, you will know about Hey Hey, and remember it either as the silliest show ever, or wonderful. It ran for 27 years until axed in 1999, and really was a defining statement on Aussie culture (ahem).
Here are Daryl and Ossie, well over 30 years ago:
Hey Hey started life as a silly kids show, but evolved into a silly adults show. Each show is two hours where you put your brain on the shelf and just relax.
Anyway, the good news is that Hey Hey is coming back in 2010. There were two pilot shows in 2009 to gauge viewer interest. The only problem is, it will screen on Wednesday -- not good enough! Sign this partition to bring it back on Saturday night where it belongs:
http://www.petitiononline.com/heyhey10/petition.html
Some links:
http://www.tv.com/hey-hey%21-its-saturday/show/2631/summary.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Hey_It's_Saturday
And here is the Hey Hey It's Saturday Facebook fan page, which has over 390,000 members:
http://www.facebook.com/heyheyitssaturday
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Simple Network Setup "version 1"
I announced yesterday that I had written a network/Internet setup tool from scratch:http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01425
I added support for WPA, and it works real nice on my hardware. So, I decided to put it out there for further testing:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=399360#399360
SNS is very small, just two scripts, 'sns' and 'rc.network', kept at /usr/local/simple_network_setup.
When connections are made, the information is stored at /etc/simple_network_setup.
If you need to connect to different networks at different times, such as a flash stick that gets plugged into different PCs, no problem. You can have multiple profiles and 'rc.network' will automatically connect to whatever network is available.
The same thing goes for different network interface cards and USB thingys. rc.network will use whatever hardware is currently plugged in.
The greatest feature I think is the simplicity. Sooo easy to use!
Anyway, give it a go, report bugs.
Oh yeah, it is designed to run in a recent Woof-built Puppy. If you are running anything older than playdayz' latest Dpup or Quirky 008, you should be able to do a partial evaluation of SNS by just installing the package without the 'rc.sysinit' and 'rc.shutdown' -- or manually patch your rc.sysinit and 'rc.shutdown'.
...so, I guess someone could create a SNS PET for Puppy 431 or whatever. I'm not sure, they may have to upgrade wpa_supplicant also.
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Chinese Puppy
Convert any Puppy (including Quirky) to Chinese:http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=53296
Great initiative, sasaqqdan!
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Simple Network Setup
A couple of days ago, I was struggling with Pwireless2, trying to get it to work properly in Quirky.Then I thought, "perhaps I should write my own network setup tool, then I would understand what is going on". It's crazy, considering all the man-hours that have gone into the Network Wizard, Pwireless and other network setup tools, for me to think about writing yet another from scratch.
Crazy, but I have been writing what I call 'Barry's Simple Network Setup'.
It is extremely simple and works nicely. SNS will connect to a wired or wireless network and remembers at next bootup. I have designed it to handle different network interfaces, as I am often changing USB network devices. It also handles multiple networks, such as if you take your laptop to different places.
However, I don't know anything about WPA, so it only handles un-encrypted or WEP-encrypted wireless networks so far. WPA is of course a big topic on it's own, but I'll look into it tomorrow.
Other limitations so far are needs a DHCP server on the network, and no support for Ndiswrapper.
One outcome of this is that as I am getting up to speed with using iwconfig, dhcpcd, etc, I will take another look at Pireless2 and have a much better chance of debugging it.
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2.6.33-git7: serious filesystem errors
Anyone else testing Quirky 008 getting any messages at bootup (or by running 'dmesg') that look like this?:EXT2-fs (loop1): error: ext2_lookup: deleted inode referenced: 12334
I've been getting lots of them. A problem with Aufs? It was ok with the 2.6.33-rc8 kernel.
There are files in /var/run that are supposed to be deleted. These are files that dhcpcd uses, which breaks dhcpcd.
This problem is occurring during normal operation, not after power failure or any other abnormal condition.
I did a fsck on the 'quirkysave' file and that fixed it. For example:
/mnt/home/quirkysave-4MAR2010.2fs: Entry 'dhcpcd.sock' in /var/run (12301) has deleted/unused inode 12334. CLEARED.
This is not good.
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GPL licences in Woof
This is probably something that I should have done years ago.In Woof I have created /usr/share/doc/licences directory, with these files in it:
gpl-2.0.txt
gpl-3.0.htm
lgpl-2.1.txt
lgpl-3.0.htm
We are supposed to have the GPL licence for a package local, within Puppy. Having just one set of them means that any PET package that you create does not need to have it's own licence file, just a link to one of the above.
Same thing in scripts. I have just started a new script, and I put this at the beginning:
#!/bin/sh
#(c) Copyright Barry Kauler 2010, bkhome.org
#2010 Lesser GPL licence v2 (/usr/share/doc/licences/lgpl-2.1.txt)
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Quirky 008 uploaded
Grab Quirky 008 from here:http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/quirky-008/
Please do read the release notes:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/quirky/quirky-008/quirky-008-readme.htm
...some very interesting new features to play with!
Forum thread to provide bug reports and any other feedback:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=53142
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Woof uploaded, March 4, 2010
Here are the commit notes since the last upload (which was Feb. 8):woof supports Pwireless2, upcoming quirky 007 has Pwireless2
partial integration of Pwireless2, Network Wiz and Network Wiz Classic via connect icon
complete integration of all network setup tools (take one)
rerwin: handle concurrency of modem detection and firmware loading
this version used to build quirky 008
Quirky 008 really-final: blacklisted kernel nouveau driver, fixed connectwizard_2nd script
Note that this Woof also has a couple of bug fixes for /usr/bin/dir2pet and /usr/bin/petspec.
Further info: http://bkhome.org/woof/
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Nouveau failure
Running the 2.6.33-git7 kernel, I compiled these:xorg-server 1.7.5
libdrm 2.4.18
xf86-video-nouveau 20100221
I built a Quirky live-CD and tested it on my PC that has an Nvidia card.
At bootup, as soon as the 'nouveau.ko' module loads, the screen goes black. The end.
The module needs firmware, that is present.
I was going to upload Quirky 007 tonight, however in the morning I'll pull out the nouveau.ko module offer it as a separate PET package. ...perhaps it will work on someone else's Nvidia hardware, but by having it as a PET package they can boot up initially and have a working system.
Not so good, after all my anticipation
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