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  1. Finally knows why HP Pavilion dv9000 never worked with Mandriva (y)

  2. Many thanks. The only thing I hate on Linux is the bootloader (haha) Many thanks for that. I will have a play around once my HDD gets here.
  3. I have alot of experiencing and I don't mind wasting hours to get it to work, I was just wondering what the best way would be to re-install the bootloader so I can do so. However, I will take your advice and wait until I get both HDD in. Thanks
  4. It has been something I have been wondering lately. I am getting another HDD into my laptop and I plan to duel boot Mandriva & Windows. Now, I know how to install however and get them both to boot however, I haven't done it how I am about to explain. Right now, I only have one HDD in the laptop which has Windows installed. What I plan to do is remove the HDD and place a new one in which I will then install & setup Mandriva. However, I am then planning to remove Mandriva HDD from the laptop. In a week or so, I plan to get another HDD caddy for my laptop which will allow me to have both HDD at once. However, what do I do about the bootloader ? Will I ned to re-install Grub and re-set them up. If so, is there a very easy way to do this like using a LiveCD etc ? Many thanks and ya, I know I ask alot
  5. Okay, some good news for people that is reading this. Update your BIOS first and then try it and you will see you get further :) I will keep you updated. UPDATE Okay, good news at last. Right, when I tried in Windows XP, Vista and 7, it worked when I first installed it however it stopped. This was the same with Ubuntu after a while playing however, it stopped. However, I have noticed something in common. That once I run it on battery and when it goes to stand by etc, when I boot it back up with the plug it stopped working. So, after some playing around, I learnt that Windows stopped the wireless from working as a part of it power saving and that my laptop didn't know once it was back on plug (known issue according to HP). So I ask this final question about my wireless. Is there a hidden power saving in Mandriva, that I do not know off ?
  6. I am using Mandriva 2009.1. I will try again with the other driver you linked me too. I will try "dkms-broadcom-w" afterwards. It is in the standard repo ? I have tried the driver and it came up with Okay, I installed dkms-broadcom-w via urpmi, do I need to do anything else ?
  7. I have looked into this a bit more, but sadly it seems that it might be possible that my wireless card isn't detected at all. I say this as when I ran the same command that someone else did on Ubuntuforums, I couldn't see any of my wireless on there. [root@localhost snat]# lspci 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2) 00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2) 00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2) 00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2) 00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2) 00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) 00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3) 00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3) 00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3) 00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3) 00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1) 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1) 00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2) 00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce Go 7600] (rev a1) 07:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller 07:05.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) 07:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 0a) 07:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 05) 07:05.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff) Sorry if I have bumped this too early, I am just adding what I have found out as I go along incase anyone was about to do the same. The other person post can be seen here - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=598...amp;postcount=3
  8. Edit: Sat 5th of Dec, 2009 Well, I have finally found my answer at the end. Mandriva Linux was working all this time (only tested in Mandriva 2009.1 but I am guessing Mandriva 2010 will work as well but if you see no questions from me on here after this, then you know it does ;)), there wasn't actually anything wrong with it. The drivers was installed (which is why it worked when I tried it first time). I found out why it wasn't working after I was using Windows 7 after some time. Windows 7 suddenly stopped working with the wireless and only worked randomly when it was heated up (this was also the case with running it with Mandriva). I learnt that the actual motherboard of the HP Pavilion dv9000 had very major problem in which the graphic card would stop working after a certain amount of use. This also caused the wireless/bluetooth module to "disconnect" from the motherboard. If you wireless isn't picked up and your bluetooth don't connect <- You are affected by this issue. This motherboard issue is actually an easy fix and I ain't sure if I can post it on here, so PM me if you would like to know how to do it (involves soldering). I can confirm that Mandriva DOES work with HP Pavilion dv9000 and it works very well. The other webcam issue I had was also an easy fix and once I find that topic again, I will post on how I did it. For those people whom has this model, if you bug HP CEO enough times, he will actually give in (well some people had success) but I will post a guide somewhere on how to fix the motherboard issue. Sadly, this fix won't be to helpful for long without installing another fan inside (this will cause less battery life and be a bit louder) as the issue could happen again. -- Original post below Well, I have another problem but sadly this problem isn't one I can just ignore :( I have a HP Pavilion dv9000 (dv9206eu) that I used to connect to the internet with by using a external USB. That USB sadly broke this morning and I am out of luck with connecting to the internet wirelessly. I am currently connected via an connecting to the router via cable but sadly I am unable to run this all the way upstairs where I wish to use the laptop. I have tried using ndiswrapper with the Window version of the driver (XP, Vista both 32 & 64) which I downloaded from HP site. The command I used was. (For notice, I couldn't add it using MCC as it said it wasn't supported). ndiswrapper -i '/home/snat/.wine/drive_c/SWSetup/Vista Drivers/bcmwl6.inf' I then got it said it has installed it and it has been added. I then did the following: [root@localhost snat]# ndiswrapper -l bcmwl6 : driver installed Then, I done the following [root@localhost snat]# ndiswrapper -ma module configuration information is stored in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper After that, I ran the following command modprobe ndiswrapper Naturally, it didn't work (not sure if it should do at this point) so I decided to check to see if it was picking it up. So I ran the following command, [root@localhost snat]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. pan0 no wireless extensions. So, it found nothing and after this, I have no clue what to do. I have "tried" to install the "bcmxx" or whatever they are called drivers but sadly no luck. If anyone has a hint on what to do next, please do let me know (and please do not let that answer be get a new wireless card etc as I don't want to get one if I can use it internally first). Many thanks for reading.
  9. Snat

    webcam

    Have you installed gspca as a Google search shows that is what is often used to get it working.?
  10. Okay, after some playing about, it seems that "r5u870 (http://www.palmix.org/r5u870-en.html)" seems to have an answer that I need. However, it doesn't install when I tried to install it from source. I ran urpmi kernel-devel and tried installing again however, it once again decided it wouldn't install. I tried to install it by using urpmi (just incase Mandriva already has it) urpmi r5u870 -a However, that too came back deciding not to work. I have listed the error below, however I got a feeling it might be due to my kernel so if anyone can point me which way to go next, tell me it isn't possible at this time, or give me a how too then I would be very thankful. [root@localhost r5u870_k2.6.27]# urpmi r5u870 -a Some requested packages cannot be installed: r5u870-kernel-desktop-latest-0.11.0-1.20080403.3mdv2008.1.i586 (due to unsatisfied r5u870-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb) r5u870-kernel-desktop586-latest-0.11.0-1.20080403.3mdv2008.1.i586 (due to unsatisfied r5u870-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb) r5u870-kernel-server-latest-0.11.0-1.20080403.3mdv2008.1.i586 (due to unsatisfied r5u870-kernel-2.6.24.4-server-1mnb) Continue installation anyway? (Y/n) y To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed: Package Version Release Arch (medium "Main (Official2009.1-1)") dkms 2.0.19 15mdv2009.1 noarch dkms-minimal 2.0.19 15mdv2009.1 noarch guile 1.8.6 3mdv2009.1 i586 kernel-desktop-devel-latest 2.6.29.1 4mnb2 i586 (suggested) libguile17 1.8.6 3mdv2009.1 i586 (medium "Contrib (Official2009.1-9)") dkms-r5u870 0.11.0 6mdv2009.1 noarch 3.7MB of additional disk space will be used. 1.4MB of packages will be retrieved. Proceed with the installation of the 6 packages? (Y/n) Y $MIRRORLIST: media/main/release/dkms-minimal-2.0.19-15mdv2009.1.noarch.rpm $MIRRORLIST: media/main/release/guile-1.8.6-3mdv2009.1.i586.rpm $MIRRORLIST: media/main/release/dkms-2.0.19-15mdv2009.1.noarch.rpm $MIRRORLIST: media/main/release/kernel-desktop-devel-latest-2.6.29.1-4mnb2.i586.rpm $MIRRORLIST: media/main/release/libguile17-1.8.6-3mdv2009.1.i586.rpm $MIRRORLIST: media/contrib/release/dkms-r5u870-0.11.0-6mdv2009.1.noarch.rpm installing dkms-minimal-2.0.19-15mdv2009.1.noarch.rpm dkms-2.0.19-15mdv2009.1.noarch.rpm guile-1.8.6-3mdv2009.1.i586.rpm dkms-r5u870-0.11.0-6mdv2009.1.noarch.rpm kernel-desktop-devel-latest-2.6.29.1-4mnb2.i586.rpm libguile17-1.8.6-3mdv2009.1.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Preparing... ############################################# 1/6: dkms-minimal ############################################# 2/6: dkms ############################################# 3/6: kernel-desktop-devel-latest ############################################# 4/6: libguile17 ############################################# 5/6: guile ############################################# 6/6: dkms-r5u870 ############################################# + /usr/sbin/dkms --rpm_safe_upgrade add -m r5u870 -v 0.11.0-6mdv2009.1 Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/r5u870/0.11.0-6mdv2009.1/source -> /usr/src/r5u870-0.11.0-6mdv2009.1 DKMS: add Completed. + /usr/sbin/dkms --rpm_safe_upgrade build -m r5u870 -v 0.11.0-6mdv2009.1 Preparing kernel 2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb for module build: (This is not compiling a kernel, just preparing kernel symbols) Storing current .config to be restored when complete Running Generic preparation routine make mrproper...... using /proc/config.gz make oldconfig.... make prepare.... Building module: cleaning build area.... make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb -C /lib/modules/2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb/build M=/var/lib/dkms/r5u870/0.11.0-6mdv2009.1/build.....(bad exit status: 2) Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb (i586) Consult the make.log in the build directory /var/lib/dkms/r5u870/0.11.0-6mdv2009.1/build/ for more information. + /usr/sbin/dkms --rpm_safe_upgrade install -m r5u870 -v 0.11.0-6mdv2009.1 Error! Could not locate r5u870.ko.gz for module r5u870 in the DKMS tree. You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb (i586) first. + :
  11. Okay, so my upgrade to Mandriva 2009.1 has happened successfully which is very good news. However, I am having two problems. One is bluetooth but I will leave that for another day but this time it is my webcam. I am unable to get this webcam to work. In cheese, it says it can not pick up the webcam and in a flash program on my site, it says it is in use by something else. I do not know if it is installed so any help from the community will be very thankful from me. The part in bold below is my webcam. This worked in Ubuntu after some work, but it ain't working in Mandriva :(
  12. Does anyone know if that in Mandriva 2009.1 uses the pulseaudio version that works with allowing bluetooth headsets to be used as audio and a mic ? Ya, same issue as before (only ever have problems with BT headsets )
  13. I used too but it stopped working after the pulseaudio update. Just waiting for pulseaudio sources in the repos to be added as the new version is meant to support bluetooth headsets in pulseaudio.
  14. Any eta when it will be added to the repos or if there is any RPM for Mandriva already out there ? Thanks for the information btw :)
  15. Mandriva 2009.0 To what I remember, Pulseaudio has bluetooths support in version 0.9.13 but I ain't sure if Mandriva is using that version yet.
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