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haven't tested debian etch yet, but they all use network-manager ?, at least on my notebook I have the impression it is not the driver but network-manager that for some strange reason does not want to connect

but I still don't understand the different behaviour of different distributions with the same card, so far only mandriva and to some extent winxp worked reliably with it :huh: ??? behaviour on fedora 7 is the same as on ubuntu 7.10 different firmware ??? just guessing

yep that was your problem, the keys just did not match. as I already mentioned with ssh-keygen you can create your own key-pairs, which might make administration easier (you don't have to bother with mismatching keys after an upgrade)

sorry that I can't help you, but I haven't used kmyfirewall on Mandriva, i just use the built-in mandriva firewall, which worked very well for me so far. Maybe kmyfirewall conflicts with it ? Don't know how much (if at all) mandriva tweaked iptables/shorewall.

I hope you have luck and it works. I had such a problem the other way round, Mandriva one just didn't like my onboard sata and refused to boot (kernel-panic and all), while the normal CD-install worked fine, sata was detected and worked, even the raid function could be used.

sorry was just editing my post, there are maybe some additional answers now in there

Normally when you connect to another computer through ssh for the first time the key for this computer will be stored in ~/.ssh/known_hosts, now if you did an upgrade this computer will provide another key that does not mach your stored key, maybe you could try to delete the offending key from known_hosts and then try connecting again. this should be the same with sftp (it is part of ssh and uses the same keys) you can create your own keys with ssh-keygen

so far the fedora 7 live CD wasn't that painfull for me, it has just the same limitations as every live-system.

I think the quake II will install only the engine, you might need an original quake II cd from where you get the data files (while the Quake engine is opensourced, the game artwork is still protected by copyrights, and therefore I doubt that these will be included), you might start quake from a terminal and see what it shows (terminal messages). the problem with d2x might be the same as with quake (just the engine), isn't this descent ??? for editing the menu you can use alacarte in gnome or kmenuedit in kde, maybe you need to install them. Windows on your desktop can normally be killed by klicking the x in the upper right corner, maybe you have to try more than once, you will then be asked if you want to shutdown the application. xkill mght be still in the contrib-repository, but it is not always the best idea, to use it, it kills the window, but the application may still run in the background. yes you can remove beagle in exactly that way. don't know about cedega and wine, I just don't use win-applications within linux ;) the usb-feature is part of kde, it is not mandriva-specific, in gnome your usb-stick will be mounted and automatically opened in nautilus. the screen-lock works without problems for me, maybe you have deactivated your screensaver ? don't know about the resolution issue, have you tried to edit xorg.conf manually and insert the needed resolutions ? what graphics-card and type of display do you use ? saw your other questions already :D seems that KDE tries to make live easier for users switching from windows ;) best way to stop misbehaving applications is through gnome-system-monitor or its kde equivalent (don't know the exact english name, might be ksysguard ?), there you should search for the proccess and stop it, on the command line you can use top to find the process and then kill it

Maybe you could try the Fedora Live CD, there seems to be a version for Fedora 8 too, I have only 7 at the moment, would be interesting how it behaves. Have just installed Fedora 7 from LiveCD, seems to work ok, dvd-drive works, but as already mentioned I have a different chipset

sorry that I could not help so far but seems I have to install fedora now (I'm courious :D ), haven't used it lately since I was just to happy with mandriva, ubuntu and debian

is acpi working ? you can check this by looking if you have a directory named /proc/acpi. for your modem: it propably is a softmodem (most notebook-modems are of this type), which needs a driver, you should find out what the exact type of your modem is (manufacturer would help), maybe there is a driver for it (not all softmodems do have linux drivers, the situation is nat as bad as it was 2 or 3 years ago, but it is still far from perfect) what type is your wireless card ? did you mean touchscreen or touchpad ? if it's the touchpad it might be synaptics, which should work, maybe you have to install the driver, it is called synaptics without further information about your hardware specs it is somewhat difficult to help. ok searched a bit: your modem seems to be a conexant, there should be a driver for it, I am not sure but it should be hcfpcimodem or something like this WLAN seems to be Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG, there should be a driver too, search for ipw2200, maybe you can try ndiswrapper instead one note: I checked the drivers for Mandriva 2008, therefore I am not entirely sure if they are all there for Mandriva 2007

menudrake is not there anymore, you could try editing your menus with either alacarte (for gnome) or kmenuedit (for kde)

maybe it uses a generic ide-driver to boot and fails trying to load the ide-driver for your chipset (just a wild guess), your hardware is definitely not that exotic, maybe I should try installing Fedora on my box, the basic hardware seems to be similar ah, sorry just looked at my box, it uses an ich7, so I'm not sure if the results would be comparable have you already looked on tuxmobil.org or other notebook-specific sites ?

isn't there an entry advanced options ? (sorry can't look at the moment, I have an ugly winbox in front of me, time to get home !!!) ok, looked, seems that this is not here anymore on elder Mandriva versions there was a checkbox, which of your networkcards you wanted to use as "gateway-device", checking the wrong card wielded exactly the results you described. seems all this went into "sharing your internet connection" (the entry above VPN-Configuration, sorry don't have an english system, so I do not know the exact names) another idea, have you network-hotplugging enabled, if you have maybe it helps to disable it ?

have you looked if the second card is used as gateway-device ? you can look in mandriva control center > networking, it should not be checked

my plextors have no problems with either k3b or the nautilus dvd-burning extension, the firmware-tool for linux works too (admitted it is maintained externally) the problems with the mount points are not plextor-specific, I had the same minor inconvenience on another machine with two CD/DVD-Drives (a Toshiba DVD and a TEAC burner) too, but as I already mentioned, just a quick edit in /etc/fstab (just exchanged the mount points) solved everything.

Funny thing on my thinkpad is that mandriva works best, windows worked ok (although it always showed weaker signals than mandriva) and ubuntu only works if it wants, but then it shows roughly the same signal strength and connection speed as mandriva, it just does not want to connect sometimes (couldn't persuade it to work reliably so far) still have to test debian, fedora and opensuse haven't tested the distance, but my access point is "at the other end of the house" (there are two concrete walls and one ceiling between access point and notebook)

so far I can only tell about an old omnibook XE3, a not so old omnibook 6100 and my relatively new thinkpad r60 xe3 and 6100 show cpu temperature if acpi is working, lm_sensors did not detect any additional sensors, hdd-temperatures could be obtained via hddtemp, so far I had different versions of mandriva installed on them my r60 shows all the temperatures I already mentioned if acpi is working, no extras needed, I can confirm this so far for Mandriva 2007.1/2008, Ubuntu 7.04/7.10 and Debian 4.0; forgot to mention fan speed is displayed too on my thinkpad I use gkrellm for monitoring my systems if someone wants additional features for his thinkpad, there are different packages specially tailored for thinkpads, although some models are better supported than others; interesting packages for mandriva should be: ibm-acpi, tpctl (provides the ultrabay-daemon for hot-swapping ultrabays) and tpb (provides additional key functions) the lm_sensors problem is not so critical anymore as it seems, since newer versions detect thinkpads and therefore don't screw them up anymore (earlier versions could kill your BIOS when running sensors-detect further info is given here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_lm-sensors for everyone who wants to run linux on thinkpads I can highly recommend browsing http://www.thinkwiki.org before installing linux on your baby sorry for turning this into a linux on thinkpads thread :D

just one thing I would like to mention: some notebooks even do not need lm_sensors, my thinkpad r60 shows temperatures for Battery, CPU, GPU, HDD and Mainboard without even installing hddtemp or lm_sensors. just a warning for thinkpad users: on thinkwiki some thinkpad users reported massive problems with lm_sensors, seems some thinkpads do not particularly like it

glad to hear that your hdd problem got fixed. If you have a running internet connection, you may just disable the dvd-entry in rpmdrake as package source, so it does not ask for the dvd anymore. seems that mandriva has the tendency to give burners /mnt/cdrom as mountpoint and /mnt/cdrom2 and so on to other drives, but you could edit your /etc/fstab so that your dvd-drive mounts on /mnt/cdrom (assuming that rpmdrake searches /mnt/cdrom for packages), other way would be to change the mountpoints in the Mandriva Control Center. In my case Mandriva insisted on giving my Plextor sata-DVD-burner /mnt/cdrom and my asus ide-DVD-drive /mnt/cdrom2, ironically rpmdrake searched /mnt/cdrom for packages despite the fact that I had the system installed from my dvd-drive but the problem was solved with a quick edit of my /etc/fstab :D

Many thanks, especially liked the ying and yang

maybe your sata-drive is defective too ??? or it got screwed up when windows went down ? if you go to mcc in mandriva do you see a drive called sd(x) ? btw. which sata-controller does your board use, which sata-drive do you use I have no problems with 2 maxtor drives on a uli-sata and a plextor-burner on a silicon image sata, mandriva recognizes them all, the sata-drive in my notebook was so far recognized by Mandriva 2007.1, 2008, Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 and Debian 4.0, so all in all I can say that sata-recognition is fairly good in modern linux distributions. have you tested if your drive is recognized by a live-linux distro like knoppix ?

Seems the ipw-driver has a problem if there are more than one wireless network with about the same signal strength, I once had this problem at home (there is another wireless network in my neighbourhood), but since windows had the same problems connecting that day and it never surfaced again, I did not digg any deeper into the problem. Edit: Just encountered something really weird: with Mandriva I can connect to my wireless network without problems, with Ubuntu 7.10 I get no connection at the moment :huh: there is one other network at the moment and both the Mandriva Network Tool and KKWifiManager say 45-49 % signal strength for my own network will try how other distributions behave

I used it so far only on Mandriva 2008, because it lets you deactivate the wifi antenna, a function I have not found so far in Mandrivas network-tool (which is otherwise fantastic), but maybe I am just to silly to find the switch there.