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Have tried all of the suggestions made, with little, or at least unreliable, success, so have decided to wait until 10.2 becomes 'Official' before doing anything else. Thanks for all inputs :-)

I used your first solution - modifying lilo.conf - and that enabled me to recover from enabling acpi; thanks. We're clearly progressing ;-) Strangely, the portion 'acpi=on' was missing from the default entry in lilo.conf following enabling of acpi (although 'acpi=ht' was also gone), so I inserted it manually. Nevertheless, the system still freezes on boot, so something still seems to be wrong/missing. I checked in rc5.d, which I understand is involved in defining the boot-sequence, and it contained the following entries: S01hotplug, S01udev, S03iptables, S04acpi, S04pcmcia. The system freezes after displaying 'starting pcmcia'. Will have to keep plugging away at this problem, but at least I can recover from the dreaded 'boot-freeze';

aRTee, tried your latest tip, which worked. Will see how it reacts the next time that I boot. Thanks

devries, thanks for the tip, went there and found drakxtools-10.1-26mdk.i586.rpm, hope this is the correct one. Now the tricky bit: I'm a newby and have not yet had the pleasure (??) of installing a downloaded package. How do I go about this? Presume it's easy, but wouldn't want to ruin the last week's work and have to re-install. Grateful for another tip. 8.3.2005: installed 'drakxtools-10.1-26mdk.i586.rpm' using MCC -> Software Management -> Install, which resulted in 'drakxtools_http' being started at boot (according to MCC -> System -> Services). What on Earth does this mean; would also like to know how these drakxtools are supposed to be used ? Can't find any mention of them elsewhere!

I seem to be missing a small but vital piece of info here. Can't find drakroam (or, from another topic, diskdrake) on my installation. Where does one start to find these things? Nothing in 'help', anyway

Thanks adam, but unfortunately haven't been able to find drakroam, could you help me out?

Is it possible (in 10.1 Official) to save the current installation-state PRIOR to introducing a change/mod, so that, if the new system fails to boot, the old one can be easily reinstated - via failsafe, perhaps. My reason for asking this is that I have twice tried to install acpi on my Tosh Satellite Pro, each time resulting in a freeze-up on reboot and the necessity, since I don't know of any other way of solving the problem, of a re-installation. Or perhaps some other kind of recovery process would do. Thanks.

Adamw I did as you suggested and, lo and behold, I found the stick listed in KDiskFree. Wasn't able access it though, because outside of the terminal-shell I was not 'root' . This (general lack of access) has happened before, don't know how to solve that one. Darkelve I also did as you suggested, but it had no effect. Thanks anyway to you both.

I did as you suggested and, lo and behold, I found the stick listed in KDiskFree. Wasn't able access it though, because was not 'root' . This has happened before, don't know how to solve that one. Thanks anyway

I am running MDK 10.1 Official on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600, and decided to attempt to get the acpi function working. I installed the acpi packages (acpi and acpid) and enabled acpi (System Config tool -> Boot -> Bootloader -> Enablle ACPI), closed all running tools and terminals and rebooted. Halfway through the reboot (just after 'starting pcmcia') the system FROZE. Perhaps I need some additional Toshiba-specific software, or just something else; don't know. This has happened twice, each time requiring a complete re-installation (don't know of any other way of recovering from this situation). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I was browsing through the topics and came across the one by 'crazyspongebob' on Dec 14 2004, concerning the problem of 10.1 Official in mounting a memory drive. I have a similar problem, I also tried to use harddrake to mount it, but was unable to achieve anything (at least, harddrake tells me that it knows the drive is there but I have no way of addressing it, i.e. no icon, etc). 'hotplug' has been activated. I followed the instructions contained in the reply from 'aRTee' and the results follow below . If anyone can interpret them and give me a hint on what I have to do to be able to use the memory-stick, I'll be extremely grateful. The stick IS formatted, in FAT32, and Windows can read it OK. Cheers Lawrence [LP] ****************************** aRTee wrote: open a konsole before connecting the drive, then login as root su [ + root password ] then monitor the system logs with: tail -f /var/log/messages (you can stop the monitoring by hitting ctrl-c) then connect the device. Post any output here, if necessary including /etc/fstab [LP] -> here I did as instructed by aRTee, which resulted in: [lawrence@localhost lawrence]$ su - Password: [root@localhost root]# tail -f /var/log/messages Mar 1 17:44:56 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.194.197.98 DST=80.4.132.65 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=6077 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2032 DPT=7358 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Mar 1 17:44:56 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=194.249.24.221 DST=80.4.132.65 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=63724 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3086 DPT=7358 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Mar 1 17:44:59 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.194.197.98 DST=80.4.132.65 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=6082 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2032 DPT=7358 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Mar 1 17:45:03 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=194.249.24.221 DST=80.4.132.65 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=64375 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3086 DPT=7358 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Mar 1 17:45:05 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.194.197.98 DST=80.4.132.65 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=6089 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2032 DPT=7358 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Mar 1 17:45:36 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=222.233.52.32 DST=80.4.132.65 LEN=451 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=50 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=51072 DPT=1026 LEN=431 Mar 1 17:45:52 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=210.91.120.51 DST=80.4.132.65 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=28575 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3951 DPT=4899 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Mar 1 17:45:54 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=210.91.120.51 DST=80.4.132.65 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=28710 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3951 DPT=4899 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Mar 1 17:46:00 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=210.91.120.51 DST=80.4.132.65 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=112 ID=28961 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3951 DPT=4899 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Mar 1 17:47:10 localhost su(pam_unix)[6558]: session opened for user root by lawrence(uid=501) Mar 1 17:47:39 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=85.72.22.171 DST=80.4.132.65 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=59845 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2460 DPT=7358 WINDOW=32768 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Mar 1 17:47:41 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=85.72.22.171 DST=80.4.132.65 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=59914 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2460 DPT=7358 WINDOW=32768 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Mar 1 17:47:47 localhost kernel: Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=85.72.22.171 DST=80.4.132.65 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=60021 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2460 DPT=7358 WINDOW=32768 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 [root@localhost root]# [root@localhost root]# [root@localhost root]# [root@localhost root]# [root@localhost root]# [LP] -> here I plugged in the Sony USB memory-stick, then repeated 'tail' (as below): [root@localhost root]# tail -f /var/log/messages Mar 1 17:48:28 localhost kernel: Vendor: Sony Model: Storage Media Rev: 1.00 Mar 1 17:48:28 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Mar 1 17:48:28 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Mar 1 17:48:28 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Mar 1 17:48:28 localhost scsi.agent[6729]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/usb1/1-2/1-2.1/1-2.1:1.0/host0/0:0:0:0 Mar 1 17:48:28 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 64000 512-byte hdwr sectors (33 MB) Mar 1 17:48:28 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Mar 1 17:48:28 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Mar 1 17:48:28 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: unknown partition table Mar 1 17:48:28 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 [root@localhost root]# [LP] -> /etc/fstab (after plugging in memory-stick) contains: /dev/hda12 / ext3 noatime 1 1 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_f vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda10 /mnt/win_g ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 /dev/hda11 /mnt/win_h ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda9 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda13 swap swap defaults 0 0

I am using Mandrake 10.1 (on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600), which gives me good internet access. However, if I try to set up two internet connections (through System configuration tool -> Network & Internet -> New connection) using the same device (pcmcia-card) the CURRENT one is overwritten. Is there a restriction of a single connection per device, in which case I'll have to keep changing it whenever I'm away from home, or is there some clever way of getting around this problem. Help would be appreciated Lawrence