Use easyurpmi (link at the top of this page) to set up the repositories for your computer.
Once you have done that you can navigate to install the software in MCC (configure your computer), just search for ipw2200.
ripperx is in mandriva 2007's repositories, no need to compile it yourself if it's not nessecary.
Just do a
urpmi ripperx
as root to install it (if you're using mdv2007).
try turn of cache in konqueror by going to KDE ControlCenter (kcontrol) -> Internet &network -> web browser -> cache or by just running
kcmshell cache
and uncheck "use cache".
He said it wasn't in kcontrol where it should have been.Once I had a problem with the big "icon mouseover effects", the controls should have been in kcontrol, but they wasn't. I had to solve it by adding some lines to a file.
In the file
.kde/share/config/ktaskbarrc
add a a line
ShowAllWindows=false
under [General]
If there is no [General] then simply make one line with that first.
You may have to logout/login before the changes take effect.
Hope it helps!
open a terminal and write
mkdir /mnt/old
mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/old
cd /mnt/old/boot/
mv <path/to/your/backup> initrd-2.6.17-5mdv.img
cd
umount /mnt/old
where you replace hdaX with the right partition.
You probably have to be root to do this if you do this from a livecd, I havent tried so I don't know...