theoldun

Thank you for your help and patience, I am just sorry that we could not find a solution.

Hello, Sorry for the delay in replying this time but once again Linux refused to boot ,hung at the same place. So I have done a clean install- zero-filled the complete hard drive, re-partitioned and re-formatted before re-installing from the CD's. I opened a root terminal, navigated to the file and doubleclicked. Immediately I got the warning message 'unable to register the RPM file' followed by the box 'this package is already installed'.This time I have been able to reboot but I am beginning to think that maybe I should call it a day and try another distro, it is a bit disheartening to have to reinstall so many times, this is the eighth time. So far my first impressions of Linux are not good!

I did as you suggested but when konqueror opened it displayed the Welcome message which is on the home page with the RPM file, I could not find a way to close it down and select the other file. Eventually I found the floppy drive page so I inserted the disc and doubleclicked the file. All seemed to go OK until I saw a box at the top right corner of the screen which said ' this package is already installed' followed by the usual one 'unable to register the RPM file'. I closed the root terminal and looked for the package using Mandrake Control Center under Installed Packages- it was not found! The only difference this time is that I can still boot in to Linux. Just in case I tried to set up an internet connection but the modem was not found.

I have copied the file from the floppy to my home page. I opened a terminal but have not so far been able to navigate to the file location, there have been various messages such as unable to locate the file or once I saw unable to register local files. As I said previously I have no experience of using command lines, once I leave the GUI I might as well be in a foreign land.The only way I am able to get anywhere with installing the file is to double click the it and I am then asked if I want to install the package. If I 'ok' that, it appears to do it but I then get the error message 'unable to register the RPM file'.

On the HCF modem page under Mandriva 2005LE - hcfpcimodem-1.08full_k2.6.11-6mdk-1mdk.i586.rpm.zip

Yes thank you very much, I already have the correct Linuxant driver file . My problem is that I am unable to install it, you will see from previous that I get an error message 'unable to register RPM file'. So we are back to sqare one!

Supra Express 56i Pro CW manufactured by Diamond Multimedia I think.

Yes it is.

Machine spec: AMD Duron 850Mhz on ECS/K7S5A motherboard 394Mb SDRAM Two 40Gb hard drives - 1st has two equal partitions containing Windows XP SP2 Home edition 2nd has two equal partitions of which one is formatted NTFS, the second was free space into which Mandriva is installed. The partitions created by the install programme are; 5.85 Gb,1.07 Gb and 12.38GB. Linux/Mandriva is version 2005LE/10.2, kernel 2.6.11-6mdk. The three installation CD's were created by burning from an ISO file found on a magazine cover DVD. It normally boots with a graphical interface but whenever I have problems I switch to verbose mode at the initial screen so that I can follow the train of events. Each time it fails to boot it hangs at the same place, the last line reads ' Activating swap partitions.....[OK]' the curser moves to the next line, blinks for 8-10 seconds and then sometimes stops blinking or otherwise disappears altogether. When running, the programme appears to be OK, it has recognised all the hardware with the exception of the modem and boots first time with no problems. I do not use the command line mode because as I said I am a complete beginner to Linux and it seems to me that you all talk a foreign language loosely based on English. I hope this information is of some help. I am the only user and am not booting into 'root'

the full modem string which is-PCI\VEN_14F1&DEV_1033&SUBSYS_OBOE1092&REV_08- was not listed but sufficient to confirm that it is indeed an HCF type.my under standing from the linuxant website is that all the drivers for HCF modems are the same needing only a match to the particulkar kernel in use. i cannot give you the output of uname -a as once again linuxwill not boot. this time i had satisfactorily installed further packages from the installation CD's. is there a way i can recover without reinstalling once again. anyway i previously recorded the kernel no - 2.6.11-6mdk

Hi I identified the modem using the programme 'list modems for windows' and the modem string obtained by querying the modem in windows. The linuxant file download page is only accessed after you agree the terms and conditions. I am pretty sure that I have the correct driver file for my modem.

Hi I am new to linux and have just installed mandriva 2005 le on my windows pc to learn. no problems with the installation but i am now trying to get the modem working, it was not found during the install. it is a connexant based hcf/pci modem so i downloaded the correct rpm file from the linuxant website, making sure that i had the correct one for my kernel, and put it on to a floppy. after booting linux i double clicked the file on the floppy drive and ok'd the installation procedure. i then got an error message-unable to register the rpm file. when i next tried to boot into linux it hung at 'activating swap partitions'. i tried using the rescue procedure on the installation cd but nothing i did allowed me to boot. i had to reinstall. i presume that i am doing something wrong but in the absence of any installation instructions i am stuck. any help will be greatly appreciated. [moved from Software by spinynorman]