tamathumper

Thank you again for responding!

As this is an old laptop with only a 6GB drive in it, I don't know that 2006 is an option, I read that it requires 12GB at least? Maybe if I could somehow minimize the installation.

So I basically need to reinstall and include the development packages, that makes sense thank you! I will try that.

I am using an rpm package of wpa_supplicant, but the latest I could find was 0.2.4 (or close thereto.) I don't seem to get any messages in wpa_cli, which is odd...

Thanks for your replies, all. I've read FAQs until I'm cross-eyed... Still very, very new to Linux and this WPA thing, after several *weeks* of reading and battling with it - is about to make me give up on the whole Linux idea... I could install Win 98 onto this thing in half an hour and it would be working fine.

I don't think Mandriva One has the make utility - at least it doesn't make yum-yum noises when I type in make...

<vent> $%%#@! Has anyone gotten wpa_supplicant to work with Mandriva One? @@#$!! </vent>

Now that I feel better, allow me to say I've got a working Wi-Fi connection w/no security, but that I cannot get connected to my AP with wpa_supplicant (0.2.4 or something like that).

I downloaded the 0.4.x version but it needs to be compiled and I don't know how to to that... I don't know if Mandriva One has the facilities to do so anyway... It's getting old shutting off the AP security all the time!

My copy of ndiswrapper is configured correctly and working great, and I can see the AP with an 'iwlist wlan0 scan',...

What is the contents of your wpa_supplicant.conf file? I've had it working perfectly fine under Mandriva 2006.

I've tried a lot of different contents based on different threads I've Googled... Currently the contents are:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

ctrl_interface_group=0

eapol_version=1

ap_scan=1

network={

ssid="linksys"

key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

proto=WPA

pairwise=TKIP

group=TKIP

psk="my really secret passphrase"

}

I can see my access point from the Mandriva One laptop, and it has a new Linksys wireless card and I have a new Linksys WAP54G access point and a new Linksys WRT54G router, but it will not connect to either of them using WPA.

I have exactly this setup, a Linksys (V3) card going against a Linksys WAP54G access point.

All is well with no encryption, and now I am trying to make WPA work. I have installed Mandriva One on my laptop and also downloaded and installed wpa_supplicant. I have read every available post on all forums I could find with Google and still no joy.

I followed this thread and have configured everything similarly, and when I do a scan my laptop finds the access point, but for some reason it will not connect to it...

Is anyone still monitoring this post, and if so, could you give me a little direction? At this point I've spent many hours researching and still have no joy :(

Tried it - no joy :( I can connect with no security, and my XP machines all connect with WPA, but something is wrong with wpa_supplicant

Well, I turned off all security on my AP and downloaded the wpa_supplicant package and installed it, so now I can at least configure the adapter without errors, but I cannot connect to the AP at all with WPA, only with no security enabled

"Could not install the wpa_supplicant package"... I am getting this message too - FRUSTRATING!

The "Virtual PC" does not use your graphics card, it emulates an S3 Trio 64+ with 4MB RAM if I remember correctly...

Earlier version of Linux Mandrake would be best, either 8 or 9, since the amount of RAM and processor will be a problem.

 

KDE/Gnome in 10.x and higher use a lot of resources, and will run really slow.  Use IceWM or Fluxbox, Blackbox or another Window Manager so that it'd run better.

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Each box now has 1GB of RAM, so I should be OK resource-wise.

I've been using the same Sony's for years, never a problem. I installed WS2003 to both these boxes to test them out, from the same brand burned by the same burner...

Certainly Linux can't be affected by something with the burning process that Windows would be able to overcome...?

It was a website problem - it's back up and I don't see my hardware in there anywhere, but then again, I don't see many other Intel mobos or HP Servers listed either.

Aha! Thanks! I wondered if such a list existed...

UPDATE - No matter what I type/select there, I get a Kernel Error (20) page that says...

Module not found

The requested module hardware could not be found.

Possible reasons for this are:

The module name was misspelled, try changing the URL.

The module does not exist on this site.

This site uses siteaccess matching in the URL and you didn't supply one, try inserting a siteaccess name before the module in the URL .

Reading another post seemed to intimate that only 9.x's kernel will run on Pentium II's...

I'm a bit confused - will 2005 LE (and 2006) run on my Pentium II dual-processor box? Surely it must run on my Pentium III dual processor box?

If you are using the same cd's as in your other post, you have corrupt disks. Redownlaod and/or reburn.

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This installation is using the images direct from the hard disk. I downloaded the images separately from the ones on my CDs over the network, mounted them as virtual CDs, and copied all the files on them into the root of my partition.

The ISOs checksummed OK. I think there is a problem with megaraid support?

I would guess that one of your installation CD's has been corrupted? Can you burn some new ones?

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I will do that today, after checksumming them, and I will burn them at the slowest speed possible based on advice from other postings.

They had all checked out OK, and they all copied to the hard disk when I selected that during setup, but I guess that doesn't mean much.

Thank you for your response!

In addition to the NetServer I posted about earlier, I'm trying to install 2005 LE on a server built around an Intel 440GX+ mobo, two Pentium II 450's, and 512MB of RAM.

The installation boot screen comes up, and generally no matter what I type it flicks to black and never comes back, but trial and error got me to "linux noscsi" and that seems to work past that point. Typing "text" did get me to an immediate "CRC error" and "System Halted" message, so I didn't try that more than once (OK maybe twice.)

So the "noscsi" gets me going for a ways. Then I have to choose the server roles and the installation tries to install many packages, including the SMP kernel, gimp, coreutils, etc. etc. etc. But the vast majority (if not all) of the packages come back with a "There was an error installing the package. Proceed anyway?" message, and the installation is basically junk.

I checked one of the consoles and there were a ton of what looked like invalid checksum errors, like MD5's or something like that.

I'm trying to install 2005 LE on an HP NetServer 6000r U3, with dual Pentium III Xeon processors and 1GB RAM. The RAID array has been decoupled and is just acting as two separate 36GB drives at this point, HD(0,0) and HD(1,0).

I copied all three CD's to a hard drive as plain files instead of ISO images, and modifed the hd.img boot file so that it boots from them.

The installation proceeds for a while and then chokes and stops, telling me to see the error message at Alt+F3, which is basically a series of insmods that ultimately complain about not being able to find something for the Intel Megaraid at /modules/modules.mar.

What the dickens do I do at this point? I can't even find /modules/... and I can't find any megaraid drivers, so I'm hoping someone out there can help a pseudo-noob install 2005 LE.