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Yeah i know dma decreases performance, and i know somethings up cause even my xp partition wont load xp with dma enabled, even tho bios clearly says ultra dma is enabled when it boots, ive upgraded sis drivers etc but still no go in xp, obviously the problems also afecting linux, so it has to be hardware or bios.

Ok ive been goin thru all my options and i just found that in the mandrake control panel > hardware section, it detects my dlink network card as uknown/other and it gives me no options to configure the device. Anyway to fix this prob?

Hi guys, Im using linux mandrake comunity 10.1. Im having problems detecting my wireless card. Im using a DLINK Airplus G= DWL -G250+ Wireless PCI adapter card, Im also using a USB, Netgear Wg111v2 54Mbps Wireless adapater (i have 2 routers and 2 internet connections) (I dont mind which network i connect to as long as i can connect to 1) Mandrake picks up 1 of the adapters, im guessing the PCI one cause the usb one doesnt seem to activate in linux atm, but it picks it up as ETHO something or rather. Ive tried various settings to try and get it to work with no luck, is there a driver I can install or anything to make this a easier process? Thanks

Hi guys, thanks for the quick replies, much appreciated. Arctic, i used the installation cd's t setup my partitons, hda = ntfs which remained untouched, and hdb became my linux partition. Ianw1974, your a legend, that worked and linux booted up in like a 20 seconds, is there anyway i can configure my boot up to run that command automatically for me? AussieJohn, ill check that out now. thanks guys!

Hi Guys, Up until 6 months ago I was using Linux Mandrake Community 10.1, linux ran fine no problems that time. I desperately needed extra drive space so I reverted my linux drive back to NTFS for a short while for my XP partition. So anyway after of not having used linux for about 6 months or so (i was to lazy to install it sooner) I decided to throw it bakc on as I missed it, but before I did i decided to look and see what other new linux distros were available, so i downloaded, suse 10, gentoo and linspire. So to cut a long story short, those 3 distros above DID NOT install. I have no idea why gentoo and linspire didnt, with suse i kept getting this error about dma not being assigned and some kind of error reading hda hdb. So i decided to reinstall mandrake 10.1, ok abit outdated but i didnt really care about that and i couldnt b bothered redownloading another distro. Mandrake 10.1 fully installed, however, now it refuses also to boot up, it takes a loooooong time to moiunt the first drive like 5 minutes and seems forever to mount the second, during that initial boot up before mounting the drives it seems to take 5 minutes to reach that point, mandrake gives me errors about DMA and something about failing to get a assigned address. Im thinking something has changed on my system, and in a way i know it has with certain hardware, but the drives and mainboard/ide controller are the same. Since my last use of linux, i had upgraded to 1gig ddr ram from 512mb sdram, i also upgraded to wireless network cards, and from a 64mb nvidia card to a 256mb riva card. My mainboard is a ASUS socket 487 or 478??, p4 2500mhz. Also, BIOS boot up shows my drives as UDMA active etc etc, even windows xp refuses to run them in dma mode even though I have updaded sis drivers etc. Drives are in fine condition no bad sectors etc. Anyone have any idea whats going on? thanks for any assistance.

I try that, i try to use the install feature from 10.1 and it stil trys to download it off the net and not ask for the cd... Anything i can do to fix that?

I have been trying to install this kernel source code through the RPM manager and througha root session via FTP. However I keep getting errors, how the signatures are bad and missing, and installation fails. I need the source code to install my nvidia drivers. Any idea whats wrong or any other was I can find this source code? Ive looked at a a couple of different sites that offer RPM files but i cant seem to find this specific version. Thanks for any help Moved from software by anon

Ok ive managed to fix it. Now sure if it was from my manual configuration doin it over n over again and trying different settings, or downloading patches or what not, but its going well now. Thanks for all the help once again, appreciate it.

Current firmware installed on the modem is the most recent with no resolve. Im starting to think its actually mandrake, guess i may have to wait for a patch. The way i see it everythings configured fine, because even when my DNS names get over written, the net still works (especially local aussie sites r fine) but most of it doesnt. So it has to be the o/s...

Argh im in love with mandrake to much to switch distros atm. Im thinking maybe i can use kron to set it up for me every hour or so if thats possible? Anyone have any idea if this issues been patched, if so how can i get the patch or even other patches for mandrake, if im not subscribed to their service.

Unfortunately the issue continues. I read the article and tried the fix and other users suggestions and its still happening. :(

actually it worked fine for a while and its reverted back again... Argh the frustration huh. Knoppix however doesnt do this to me? Any idea why or if i can use anything from knoppix in mandrake?

Thanks for the help guys I appreciate it alot. i tried all the methods and the one that worked for me was anon's sugestion of using: search localhost nameserver 10.1.1.1 Its amazing the solution was so simple and right under my nose. Thanks very much :)

Im using linux mandrake 10.1 community, with KDE and my internet connection is ADSL permanently connected via a D-LInK DSL-G604T DSL ROUTER. Problem im experiencing is, i notice alot of sites dont work, like google yahoo altavista and tons more. I cant log into aim/icq/yahoo either but msn works on gaim. Ive checked my firewall settings and disabled it and it stil does it, browser says it times out on port 80. So i check my internet settings and my primary DNS server is set to my dlinks modem page which is 10.1.1.1, now this setting does give me a connection to the net, but as i said alot of sites are slow and most time out. So I enter my isp's DNS server in the secondary field, and viola the net runs fine, everything works and is very fast indeed. I check my modems configuration page and the DNS server is set correctly to my ISP's. Now after a while, be 1 minute, 10 minutes or evern a hour or more, the settings will change back to just 10.1.1.1 and my secondary DNS i entered disappears and the net stuffs up again. When the net works fine i check my resolv.conf file when the nets working fine and it shows: search net.au nameserver 203.0.178.191 nameserver 10.1.1.1 # ppp temp entry everytime it reverts back to not working the file shows, nameserver 10.1.1.1 with no extra text. So when the settings are fine I try and do in root a: chmod guo-w /etc/resolv.conf &/or a #chmod -w /etc/resolv.conf This should set the file as not allowed to be written and read only, but again after a while it still changes the file and my settings again revert back to 10.1.1.1 I have tried setting my ISP's DNS IP addy as primary and using 10.1.1.1 as secondary and I experience the same problem. I have disabled the firewall from my system and from my modems page. Im totally stumped as how to fix this, id appreciated any help you guys can offer. Thanks in advance.