dude67

Well, yes, life would be much, much simpler (I'm a simple man), but who likes it easy...? :P (wife showing me the prenup...)

Thanks Yves, I managed to find the setting in the BIOS. It was in some part where it said something about motherboard settings and I didn't realize that that's where the USB setting was... :D

I'm impatient as well, and have been anxiously waiting for this release since it was originally posted to be released (end of Sep). But I will wait for the official release to get it installed on my PC as ready (flawless) as possible. I would suggest you wait for the official release of 2008, which could be out for downloading already tomorrow (Tuesday) or in the next couple of days. That way you avoid any cooker problems (unless you specifically want to dl the cooker version). https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=43666

That's a perfect gift for geek-friend who already has everything (except this...). I would love to have a shirt like this... :unsure:

I works for me... NB! Link to a device, not an application. Like this: and

Thanks Greg, I did that and will let you know if it works.

OK, I've got strace already installed, but I get this: [root@localhost dude67]# strace -o /home/dude67/wicddebug "python /opt/wicd/tray.py" strace: python /opt/wicd/tray.py: command not found Is there something wrong with the /opt/wicd/tray.py file as it states something like "dapper" and "edgy". They suggest to have something to do with ubuntu. Anyway, this is how the file looks: #!/usr/bin/python import os,sys if __name__ == '__main__': os.chdir(os.path.dirname(os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(),sys.argv[0])))) import gtk if gtk.gtk_version[0] >= 2 and gtk.gtk_version[1] >= 10: import edgy else: import dapper I've gone through the (bloody long) system logs but haven't really figured out what the problem was. I did some hw changes and disabled the WLAN AP in the combined ADSL modem/WLAN AP and connected an extra Linksys WLAN AP into the modem by eth cable. It has been working for a week or so and has not dropped my connection once (knock on wood). I started to use wicd again today, so we'll soon know if these problems will be over or if they continue. I've therefore got a few questions: 1) I still don't get wicd to start automatically, or it doesn't start properly as I always need to (re)start the service as I mentioned earlier # service wicd start Stopping any running daemons... Starting wicd daemon... /opt/wicd wicd daemon: pid 20101 # What's with that; perhaps I should add the /opt/wicd/gui.py to the Autostart also as I did with the tray.py? 2) And this autostart of tray.py does not work either. If I type it (/opt/wicd/tray.py) in Konsole as root it works, but that leaves the Konsole open with root privileges. If I exit it, it will also exit the tray. Any ideas how to fix it? Maybe it would autostart OK if the gui.py would start first (in autostart), eh? I also took Greg's advice and use "wext" as my WPA Supplicant driver. Works so far...

OK, I've ran into a problem with this one (Scorpius: http://www.ione.com.tw/2005/products/media/htm/sc-p20.htm). Does anyone know how to make Grub respond to this USB/wireless KB/mouse thingy? I have (on my family room PC) a dual boot system with MDV Spring and WinXP Home. I've got Grub and there Mandriva Spring as a first choice. But I cannot choose Windows from Grub as it doesn't respond to the keybord at all. The initial boot (BIOS) does not respond to this thing (IOne Scorpius), but when I press DEL on my other KB and enter the BIOS settings I can make BIOS choises with Scorpius without any problems. I tried to find a setting which would allow the USB kb (or anything even sligthly resembling that choice), but couldn't. Currently I have two choices: 1) to keep another kb always onsight (I hate that option) 2) to always first boot to Linux and there reboot (from KDE) to windows (takes time to do that). I'm not particulary keen on either of the choices, so I'm asking the good folks here in MUB: does anyone know any remedy? - Edit - This is the HW setup: System # 2 Display card: Club 3D radeon X700 Pro 256 MB PCI-e (ATI) Processor: Intel P4 HT 3.0 GHz Motherboard: ABIT AG8V 3rd eye Memory: 1024 Mb 400MHz DDR System: Dual boot with WinXP Home & Madriva 2007.0 Free

Well, here's my contribution... As you can see, I've been studying quite a few gimp-tuts :P - EDIT - Thumbnail

Yep, that would do it... Now you know why my eyes are shattered [my avatar]

I'm getting the logs from MCC and exporting them into kwrite for editing and easier search. Can I also get the wicd log from MCC?

I'll see what I can find in the messages. It's just that I'm not really sure what I'm looking for, but I will have a look and post back. I guess I could be looking for the parts where the system has restarted and trace back from there...

When the system crashes it's not responding to anything! It does not respond to any keystroke nor to the mouse. My only option was to reboot with the reboot button in my PC (or pressing the power button for several seconds). I have done what you instructed here earlier - no other symlinks or anything else.

When I said I got wicd to work, well, perhaps I spoke too soon. It seems to crash easily; I've now crashed the system three times and had to make hard boot (turn off the power) to recover from the crash. I'm trying to get some info about the crash, if anyone's interested. Where would be the best place to see what happened here?

One more thing: I don't think wicd is reporting the link quality (or level) right. This is what I see even though netapplet says the link level is over 50%. And the network is up at the moment.

Well, I'm still new to this, but as far as I can tell, it's working. The only thing is that I'm having trouble either with my PCI cards or with the WLAN AP (it's a combination of ADSL modem and a wireless AP). The connection has started to act up again lately and I'm not sure what's causing the problems. It worked for a long time w/o any problems, but now it keeps dropping me all the time. I need to configure the network over and over again to get it to come up again. I'm hoping that with wicd I can get more controls over the connection. But how can I tell if wicd is running? There's no icon in my system tray. If I say (as root) 'service wicd start', it doesn't give me any info. Just a new line in Konsole. [root@localhost dude67]# [root@localhost dude67]# service wicd status [root@localhost dude67]# But when I want to make sure it's running I do this: [root@localhost dude67]# service wicd start Stopping any running daemons... Starting wicd daemon... /opt/wicd wicd daemon: pid 14320 [root@localhost dude67]# But, as I said, when it gets really bad, nothing else works than reconfiguring the network again (by RMB clicking the netapplet icon on my system tray) with the exact same parameters I'm running it always... I tried also ndiswrapper with Win drivers, but the same thing happened. By default I'm using madwifi. I hava a Planet wireless PCI card which uses Atheros chipset and should work with madwifi or ndiswrapper. I'm getting sick of this system when it keeps dropping me, but at the moment I don't have a choice but to work with WLAN. This may be a little off-topic, but instead of wifi/wlan I may look into LAN that operates through regular electrical wiring. Something like this: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=533&sec=0 Does anyone have any experience with these gadgets in Mandriva (or any other linux system)?

Hey, thanks Greg2. I got it working! I was having hard time getting it running, but as root I had to do this to get it operating. [root@localhost dude67]# service wicd start Stopping any running daemons... Starting wicd daemon... /opt/wicd wicd daemon: pid 7407 [root@localhost dude67]# /opt/wicd/gui.py attempting to connect daemon... success starting... I'm still not certain how to make sure it restarts when I reboot, but I'll know soon enough.

Ooooops...! :woops: I'll do as you suggested and let you know how it went.

I dl'ed the archive and extracted it to my home folder. But what then; There's nothing to make or anything. How have folks installed it?

Thanks Adam. I was googling around to find any info about the release date, but there was none available (at least couldn't find any updated). I realize the fact dexter11 commented and was merely asking if anyone has more info (Adam of course has inside info). I know how things go when you are working on a deadline. I work in a project environment myself and was not trying to add to the pressure. :unsure: I'm checking in regularly to Mdv download site for the 2008 release - I can hardly wait... B) Keep up the good work, guys.

On the subject of 2008: Does anyone have any idea, when the official release of 2008 is going to come out? I read in the wiki, that it should have been out yesterday, but nothing appeared. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandr...8.0/Development

I'm also using Atheros chipset and have experienced some problems with it. Have you installed the madwifi module or the windows drivers with ndiswrapper? I'm currently using madwifi with my atheros chipsets and it's operating quite well. I too am sometimes faced with the problems you have described here and frankly I don't know the definite answer to your question. What I suggest is that you check that you have all the appropriate repos set up and see if there are any updates (in the non-free repos) for the madwifi module. I have many times just reconfigured my wireless connection to enable the wireless card in my PC. I most often just right-click the connection icon on the panel when it goes off-line and choose "configure network" (or something like that...). I go through the wireless settings and the system goes on-line again... I don't know what the reason for that is, but it usually does the trick for me. If there is a cure for this, I would also like to hear about it!

Just make sure you have contrib repos configured. It's in there. [root@localhost dude67]# urpmi gtkpod ftp://mandrake.cict.fr/Mandrakelinux/official/2007.1/i586/media/contrib/release/gtkpod-0.99.9-0.20070207.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm installing gtkpod-0.99.9-0.20070207.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Preparing... ############################################# 1/1: gtkpod ############################################# [root@localhost dude67]# Have you set up your repos with easy-urpmi? (top of page here)

"Oh, my God! They killed Kenny! You bastards!" :P

That is not true... I'm running KDE and DeVeDe runs nicely on my system.