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ah yes. Forgot about that. You'll want to add that to /etc/modules.preload as well

Try (as root) service network restart And see if that helps. What kernel are you using?

Wow. I have been wondering how to do that too. I will give this a try as soon as I get home. Thanks!

the floppy IDE cable is pretty standard. Any floppy should work for you.

afaik, there is no rpm for superkaramba. I could be wrong, though.

Looks that way

it's in /etc/urpmi/skip.list Also, the rpm options you want to install those files is -Uvh, not -ivh

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Make sure you have a floppy in the drive. See if that works. Paste any errors you get here. It might be worth buying a new floppy anyway. They're cheap.

try urpmi libqt3 -a See if that installs

Assuming you've already configured your wireless connection, run the networking wizard again from the Mandrake Control Center, this time click on both auto detect and expert mode. About 3/4 of the way through the wireless setup, you will get to a screen that has a bunch of boxes on it for data entry (IP, DNS server address, Gateway, etc.), one of them will be for the WEP key. Enter it there and you'll be all set.

If you had 2.6.6 working on your computer, there should still be a lilo entry for it. It might be towards the bottom, but it should still be there.

It depends largely on the speed of your mirror. Sometimes it takes me quite some time to update everything via urpmi, mostly due to the server I use being out of connections. Other times it just flies through.

I still think it's an issue with lilo and your partitions. lilo is looking for /boot in one place, and it's not there for some reason.

Here is your chance to help us out with new FAQs! Here's what we're looking for right now: Window Manager and Desktop Environments This is going to be a new FAQ category that I will create as soon as I get enough submissions. Here are the requirements: Must be a clear, concise HOWTO on your favorite WM/DE. Maybe it's not your favorite but it's something you want to try out. That's OK too. Walk us through as if we had never seen the WM/DE before. Tell us how to configure the desktop. How to change around the panel (if applicable), how to change the background, where to find the most common configuration settings, how to install themes and icons, anything a brand new user would need to know. Another thing that would be very good to know and great to include is how to set it up to start your new WM/DE. Both cli (through ~/.xinitrc or similar) and through a DM (KDM, GDM, MdkKDM). If you are interested in participating in this, please write up your FAQ and pm it to me. Also note that you would be interested in doing this in this thread. I would like to get as many WM/DE's covered as I can in this. From the Big ones (KDE, Gnome) to lesser known/used ones (Fluxbox, Blackbox, etc.) Multiple people doing the same one is OK, but if there's one that you've used that hasn't been "spoken" for, please try to do that one. Please note that you will get the credit for the FAQ if it is used in the FAQ Forum. If we combine multiple pm's into one FAQ, obviously the different authors will share the credit for the FAQ. As for format: Please try to stick to a clear format, but also be aware that the FAQ Team will be making changes to the formatting if it is needed. That's it! I look forward to reading your pm's and any comments you may have here in this thread. I'd like to start putting these up as soon as I can, so the more people that participate, the better.

You can also create a ~/.xinitrc file, even if it only has 2 entries. Create it something like this: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/startgnome #exec /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker Then when you want to start wmaker instead of gnome, remove the # from that line and add one before the gnome line. Then startx will start wmaker instead of gnome.

My guess here is that when you installed it on your other computer it was a second drive, correct? If you really can't boot from cd-rom, you'll need to take the hard drive back out of that computer and put it into your other machine to do some troubleshooting. If you really did install it when the hard drive was a secondary drive, it's an easy fix. I'm not sure if it will let you do this from within mandrake. That's the only thing I worry about. If you can get a livecd distro (knoppix, pclos, mandrakemove, etc) it would be better. Boot to the livecd. Once you get booted into the desktop, open up a console and su to root (just type su and hit enter in most cases, in knoppix, there is no root password). You will need to know which partition contains your Mandrake / partition (if that's all that's on the drive, and it is a secondary drive, it will be hdb1). I will assume this is the case. Type the following, those enclosed in <> are commands: mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt <enter> chroot /mnt <enter> vim /etc/fstab <enter> In that file, press the 'i' (no quotes) key for insert mode and replace all occurrences of 'hdb' with 'hda' (no quotes). Once that is done, press the Esc key, then :wq (colon w q) and hit enter. That will return you to the command prompt. Once there, type: vim /etc/lilo.conf <enter> Do the same as above. Press i and replace anything that says with hdb with hda. Once you're done, save the file as above (Esc :wq <enter> ). Almost done. Once you're back at the command line, type lilo to make sure the changes are saved in lilo. At this point, you should be able to shut down the computer and swap the drive back and have everything work. If something is different than I listed above, let us know and we can help you from there.

The fourth disk is available to club members and powerpack owners only. The RPMS on the 4th disk, however, are available to everyone. Head to http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi and add a 'main' source. Make sure when you do this that you go into your Sources manager (Menu -> System -> Configuration -> Packaging -> Software Sources Manager) and remove the entry for cd4. You can also remove the other cd's now if you want (ie. if you have a broadband connection) because all of the RPMS on those cd's are in the 'main' urpmi source. While you're at urpmi.org, you may want to add a contrib and plf source as well to help out if RPM dependencies.

as root in a console: rpm -ivh winex3...i386.rpm Doesn't get much easier ;) Also, with a paid subscription to Transgaming you can download their Point2Play software if you like. It's a graphical manager for WineX. Some like it, I personally don't but that's just my opinion.

ncurses-devel (as well as most of your other packages that you may need) is located on your 9.2 cd's. I think it's on CD1, but it might be 3 Just su to root in a console and issue the command urpmi ncurses-devel and it will install everything for you.

Yeah, the file will work. I use the same i686 version of the kernel you do, except mine is the 2.6 kernel, not the 2.4 kernel. I use Mandrake's i586 source rpm and everything works great.

You can download the kernel-source from Windows as long as you have access to your windows partitions from Mandrake. Yes, you need the exact same kernel-source as your kernel version. You can download it here: ftp://194.199.20.114/linux/Mandrake/9.2/i...-10mdk.i586.rpm Just be aware that it's about a 40MB file, so it may take some time. Once you have it downloaded and you boot back into Linux, you can install it from a console window as root by cd'ing to the folder you downloaded it to and typing rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.22-10mdk.i586.rpm To be root in your console, first open one up. Then type: su <enter> <enter your root password and press enter>

If you have an older burner, that could be it; but I'm not sure. The combination of an old burner and new media could cause problems on burned cd's. If you have the money, pick up a newer burner. They're not that expensive and it might work better for you.

On your first occasion; if you switched the boot order in the bios so it would try to boot off of a different hard drive first, that might have caused the error. Other than that, I'm really not sure. I've only had this error twice, and both times were back in the 7.0 and 7.2 days, before I knew much about anything as far as Linux was concerned. I reinstalled both times.

In Mandrake 10, ndiswrapper is included as a module in the kernel; but you have to install the tools before you can use the commands iphitus listed. In a console, su to root and type urpmi ndiswrapper That should install a file from your cd's that includes the tools needed. If not, head over to easyurpmi and add a Main source. It is there for sure.

According to the HOWTO above, that command would be run as root. Are you trying it as root? If you're not sure how: Open a terminal (Konsole, Gnome-Terminal) type su <enter> <enter your root password and press enter> Then try the loadndisdriver command