It all installed OK for me - after a lengthy pause during bootup that I thought was a frozen up computer. Patience paid off!
My problem is that the soundcard does not send enough audio to the waterfall display, only barely flickering the first two "bars" in the waterfall display color setup. - The tuning scope goes crazy, indicating a station and copying signals just fine, but the waterfall stays almost completely blank unless there is a really strong signal, which will barely light up the second color bar for the waterfall, showing a faint trace... I can pull the disk, reboot the machine in Win98 and all my waterfall programs work just fine... DigiPan, MixW, AltCast, etc.. That's the problem with Linux boot disks... - You've got about a 50-50 chance that it is going to work on any particular machine. If it doesn't work, your chances of fixing the problem are like, 'slim or none'. Having said that, I recognize that my problem reflects some peculiarity about my old 400 Mhz Celeron that Puppy Linux cannot deal with. The software itself works very well, from what I can tell with almost no waterfall data. It's kind of like the slots... Keep trying different machines out, and sooner or later you are going to hit the jackpot. That's what I intend to do on this end. Looking over the NBEMS package, I am very impressed with the entire package, and I really like 'puppy linux', so much that I switched over from DSL linux, my former favorite. I think its well worth a little extra effort because it is a great system. http://www.w1hkj.com/emcpup.html 73, Charles Brabham, N5PVL USPacket
