johnh123

Have you been able to install wvdial? I tried to install it with Mandriva 2007, but it says it is unable to install one of the dependencies.

Ok. I used kppp. It worked! Once...then when I tried a second and subsequent times, it won't work. Then I had to do a reinstall for other reasons, and sure enough, it worked- once. Now, when I try to dial in, it says this in the terminal window: kppp: ERROR: write() in modem::writeline failed Is there any fix for this?

I've got a samsung a900 with Sprint that I use as a modem to connect my xp laptop to the internet. Now i've installed mandriva 2007, and can't figure out how to do the same. The phone is recognized as a cdma modem, but I can't see anywhere to create a 'dial-up' connection. Any ideas?

Does the mm kernel suspend work with ati cards, anyone know?

I thought the noapic/nolapic options make it is so suspend won't work at all?

OK, so it appears that if you want 3d acceleration with your ati card, you can't have suspend to ram/suspend to disk. For me, on a laptop, the suspend(s) are more important than the 3d. Will the suspend(s) work with an ati card without 3d? Which driver should I use to make this happen? So far, using 2006, without 3d accel, when I try to suspend I get a kernel panic. My solution so far has been to reinstall. Maybe it just isn't possible with 2006+ati. If anybody has succeeded getting the suspend(s) to work with an ati card I would appreciate some help.

There appear to be new drivers on the ATI website. Has anyone given them a try yet?

Of course, he may not have set up a root password (I didn't)- so he should then leave it blank?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Does this workaround still leave kded running? It is needed for Kat.

Even if you already have gnome installed as an alternate gui?

If I want to try out a different distribution, do I have to start all over with my partition? Currently I have /home on its own partition- can I leave it alone, or will it screw up the new distribution somehow?

OK, last night I updated my 2006 rc2 install to cooker. So far, so good. But i'm not sure that it is a good idea to keep updating that way. When the public 2006 is released, will I be able to go 'back' to 2006, or am I stuck because I am already 'past' it? [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

I would, but it seemed quicker just to reinstall. I'm ok for now- thanks much.

I had installed 2006 rc2 without problems on my laptop. After fooling around with power management for a bit (I enabled hibernation and cpu throttling), I crashed out and now I can't boot up. I think it may have tried to hibernate; and now when it boots it tries to come out from hibernation (maybe). In any case, it starts to go through the bootup routine, and then kicks me out. Is there a possible solution to this problem short of reinstallation? [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)]