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Search through the frisbee code and find the line where wpa_supplicant is called. Add the option "-D wext".

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I have just two more words to say about this issue: Maslow's Hammer

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@wizard: Here is my gut instinct about this situation. Any file transfer that involves intermediate storage on a USB drive won't be much more efficient than the original procedure, especially with large files.

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I interpret the last paragraph as my original method. Would you concur? Yes, where the shared partition was your USB drive. I suspect that problems with Windows and Linux occur when files do not get cleanly copied into the NTFS partition and/or when the NTFS does not get cleanly unmounted. The pote...

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The two CUPS filters involved here - imagetoraster and rastertolabel - are doing their jobs, especially converting a colour PNG into mono so the thermal printer can handle it. There is some subtle difference with how the CUPS in Fatdog handles PDFs internally that is specific to this printer. Maybe ...

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Excellent. I guess that the maintainers of the old ipw2200 driver didn't want to bother upgrading it from the original (and now deprecated) wext wireless protocol to the modern nl80211 protocol. But as long as your wifi connection software is backwards compatible, you're OK. This is the only driver ...

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In the PWF config, can I assume that you are setting INTERFACE=eth1

Try setting DRIVER=wext

Did you reboot after installing the firmware package?

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With the caveat that, at the moment, I need a 1 2 3 step approach, also the Win XP MUST be isolated from the internet . With your online Puppy machine having an open share to the XP machine, you have already violated that requirement. Could you give a précis for the above, thanks. I did last Saturd...

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Also see here.

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It occurs to me that you could now print anything on a 4x6 thermal label by putting the content in an 800x1200 pixel mono PNG and sending it directly to the printer with CUPS-lpr.

Or you could code the content in ZPL and print it with "-o raw".

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As the author of YASSM, I'd like to make some comments. There is a difference between "file sharing" and "file transferring" and this project is clearly about the latter. File sharing apps are capable of file transfers but they may not be the best solution. Consider what happened...

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Im using BookwormpPup 64 and trying to use Document Scanner. The app can't find my wifi scanner. What file can I alter to tell it where to find my IP address? I know the IP address of my scanner I just need to be able to point the program to it. Please identify the make/model of your scanner. Have ...

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See here #9 . The idea is to put a single permanent entry in your main Debian GRUB menu that uses the "configfile" command to run another GRUB menu with multiple Puppy entries. So you can modify the Puppy menu without having to change the main menu. If your Puppies are still using the old ...

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Before going any further, I would confirm that these machines can ping each other.

From Machine A, run: ping 192.168.1.4
From Machine B, run: ping 192.168.1.1

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Chelsea80 wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 5:16 pm
I did a couple of transfer tests FROM BionicPup32 TO Win XP. All OK.

Just to be clear: you copied files from the BionicPup USB drive into the mounted XP partition?

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Are you making a run back to the shop for more labels, just to be sure that this all works?

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You can probably just use: pdftoppm -png xxx.pdf label
That would make the set of PNG files named label-1.png, label-2.png ...
Then print them with: lpr -P LABEL label*.png

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Excellent. I had forgotten that pdftoppm could also generate PNG files. Although I don't understand why you need the find command. The advantage of this method is that it bypasses the gstoraster/pdftoraster filters that handled the PDF file inside CUPS and might have been the problem. Instead, it us...

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p310don Here is a thought - convert the PDF to a PNG graphic and send that to the printer. You can do the conversion in two steps. pdftoppm aaa.pdf bbb pnmtopng bbb-1.ppm > ccc-1.png Then print the PNG from the command line through the Zebra CUPS filter with lpr -P LABEL ccc-1.png Make sure that th...

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Chelsea80 wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 2:50 am
With that in mind do you still hold the opinion that

In the end, using a USB drive may still be the simplest solution.

Yes.

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The primary market for Chromebooks has always been schools. The last thing that school boards want is a machine that can be pried open by kids and stripped of any removable parts. The more stuff you can solder down the better. What hobbyists may eventually do with the used machines is not a big conc...

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@rcrsn51 You said Then why mess with XP at all if you aren't using it for anything but secure backup of Puppy files. I didn't say that, so I guess that's a rhetorical question. That's precisely why I wanted you to answer those questions. Until you explained how this XP machine was being used, any d...

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I just tried installing ghostscript in FD, didn't make any difference to printing success for PDFs. Some other changes to the CUPS config would be necessary. I just tried LO writer with just a few words. It has the same result as a PDF through Draw. Prints, but sideways. Is that in Fatdog or Puppy?...

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Chelsea80 wrote: ↑Sat May 11, 2024 1:09 am
I understand your logic. A crisis plan is in place for such an eventuality.

Then why mess with XP at all if you aren't using it for anything but secure backup of Puppy files. Remove the XP hard drive and convert it into an external USB drive.

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That's good news. How did you perform the successful print jobs? From the command line? From a browser? From LO? IIRC, the Fatdog developers made a decision to replace Ghostscript with a different tool that does the rasterization - turns the PDF into a bitmap. Maybe that's the source of the problem....

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No answer needs to be given. With all due respect, it does. Are you simply using the XP machine as a "secure" place to backup important files? If so, I would recommend against this. If/when this old machine eventually dies, you lose everything. If XP won't boot, you have no access to the ...

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2. The menu.lst ist not on the sd - card There are two steps to doing a Linux install. 1. Copy the files onto the target drive. 2. Install a bootloader to launch them. The Puppy Installer uses the Grub4Dos bootloader. It partially worked because the SD card started to boot. But something went wrong...

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Booting from SD cards has always been unreliable.

1. Boot from the Ventoy USB again and check the SD card. Is it detected as a USB or an EMMC device?

2. Can you find the missing menu.lst file on the SD card?

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When you load a PDF label into LO, does it open in Write or Draw? I wonder if the chinese-vs-genuine issue has something to do with the amount of on-board memory in the units. A ZPL file is a set of instructions for how to create and print the label. CUPS sends the file directly to the printer whose...

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@Chelsea80: Dual booting the XP machine will introduce a new set of problems, like how will you safely insert the downloaded files into the XP filesystem without corrupting it.

You never answered my set of questions above.

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