studmuffin007

thanks for that ndiswrapper is there i typed ndiswrapper -i /path/to/windows/inf and it came backcouldnt copy ect so i typed in ndiswrapper -i /path/to/cd/inf and it told me inf allready installed use e to remove it the thing is its not detecting my wireless card .

Any advice

thanks in advance

I have finnally managed to install suse on my laptop only i have 1 problem i installed ndiswrapper using the suse disk how do i find it so a can at least attempt to install the windows driver for my wireless card and hope it works

thanks in advance

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thanks Ixthusdan the power off comand worked a treat i will just use that untill i know enough about mandriva to start messing about with it and trying to sort out problem i know nothing about

thanks

thanks i finally done it but they dont work only god knows why the ones i install just turn everything black

thanks

well thank 4 the help but i am still none the wiser ive DL some more themes tell me to place them here /home/user/.kde/share/applnk/.hidden (where's that) and 1 here /usr/share/apps/kicker/pics i'm totally lost unlike windows linux will not show me the root drive it shows me my windows partitions but not the one mandriva is installed on so i'm still stuck

any advice

thanks in advance

When i got to shut Mandriva down ie turn the pc off it seem to hang it leaves me with a blue screen with a black x which is the mouse icon whats wrong?

thanks in advance

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the first and only 1 i DL came with instructions but i have only been using mandriva since saturday so you can see the predicament i'm in all i need is a simple walk through as i have no clue as what to do

here is the 1 i DL http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=153

thanks in advance

KDE 3.4

thanks

Ok as i am very new to linux i was wondering how to apply themes that i have DL from certain linux dedicated theme sites all the themes come in tar.gz format i am currently using mandriva

thanks in advance

Linux is free as in speech, not necessarily free as in beer. What makes linux free is that companies choose to provide it for free because that's the spirit of open source, but it isn't required - companies are allowed to charge for it. Linux, technically, is just the kernel of the operating system - the core part. Companies take that and add Open Source software on top of it, package it, and then provide it as a distribution - that's why you have so many different companies that make a Linux OS - and they each do it differently. They often add features and programs to it. It's kind of a hard idea to grasp, coming from the Windows world.

true very true it is hard to grasp coming from a winduz enviroment (started with 98) just looked on ebay so if its any good i will buy it and remove xp of the laptop keep mandriva on the tower and install linspire on the laptop which is what i wanted in the first place a linux distro on my most used pc

thanks

ps still might look @ a new wireless card that can work with a free linux distro first (i'm not tight just got bored of windows and viruses, spyware progs hackers ect)

Ive looked a demon not some time ago and bulldog madasafish ect and there either not available in my area or there's a DL limit just think this week alone ive DL suse live/full, mandriva live/full, ubuntu live/full as i write this i am DL linspire live also linux xp the latter 2 i dont think i will use fully or keep so i need a ISP with no caps well at least untill i can figure out linux BT are doing a good offer of 40gig a month DL limit which aint bad once ive finished DL different linux distros

thanks

ps if linux is free whow come linspire choose to charge? (lets hope not all linux distros go the same way)

i will look for torrent software for linux soon and AOL i have to agree with you is the worst ISP and i am looking for another ISP but with broadband there r so many to choose from thinking of going to BT (uk)

ill post here on how i get on with the software

thanks

I'm not sure what you mean by that...can you give an example so I can understand better?

software like flash or drivers and torrent client software like bitcomet (if there is a version for linux) or wine that i was reading about

for installing software look into mandriva control center (aka "configure your computer) under software, install software. also, be sure to use easy-urpmi to configure some extra sources that have more software available.

will that help me install software that was inteded for windows but also writen for linux

ok thanks for that i think i have got it all sorted out, well i am online now just got to figuer out how to install software

thanks a lot

OK i think i have it working but on the signal strength i only have 1 bar i go to configure it and my wep key is in lower case i change it to upper and after i press ok it resets it to lower case and in order for it to connect i need the wep keys to be in upper case is ther a way of setting it so the wep keys stay uppercase

thanks in advance

Ok after a lot of searching on the net i think i may of found the right driver for my belkin F5D7000 wireless network card i installed it using ndiswrapper now i have a little window called network & internet configuration

its asking for a host name (what do i type in) DNS server 1 has (192.168.1.2) typed in by default at the bottom i have chosen wlan0: broadcom corp. |BCM94306 802.11g NIC as my wireless card

is there any one out ther who can easly walk me through this process as i have been @ it for quite a while

thanks in advance

ps i use aol as my isp

I have tried suse live mandriva live and installed ubuntu live (just waiting on delivery of full package) i have installed mandriva fully debian that failed compleatly on both PC's and they all freeze up if the wireless card is in the pc or inserted once there up and running ive tried linux xp desktop on the pc (failed probably cos its on a cdrw) about to try it on the laptop i know a lot of probs on the laptop are caused by the wireless card and as for the make of the wireless card the best i can tell you is its made by texas instruments

AboCom Systems, Inc. - Networking - 802.11g Wireless MiniPCI Card

Date last published: 3/16/2005

Texas Instruments network software update released on December 01 2004. that is what i get of MS updates about it

i will keep on trying other linux OS until i get one on the laptop and xp off

thanks

Is there any linux os that will run on my laptop every one i try seems to failthey all work on my tower but i am stuffed if i know how to configer it fo the internet

PRD60 has a good how-to on doing a first time install of Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.linuxloader.com/

 

Cheers,

Bill

thanks 4 that i finally got it on by letting it partition my D drive into 2 partitions not tried it out as my wireless card no doubt will continue to cause me no end of problems

thanks

ps whats best under mandriva wireless or external broadband modem

thanks ive done that and this is what i got

ETHERNET CARD

BCM94306 802.11g NIC

VENDER: Broadcom corp

DESCRIPTION: BCM94306 802.11g NIC

MEDIA CLASS: Network other

CONNECTION

BUS :PCI

BUS: PCI#:0

PCI DEVICE#:12

PCI FUNCTION#:0

VENDOR ID:5348

DEVICE ID: 17184

SUB VENDOR ID:6041

SUB DEVICE ID:28672

MISC

MODULE UNKNOWN.

When i run iwcongig it tells me there is no wireless card i have tried using ndiswrapper to install drivers of the insterlation disk but that don't work either

any help or hint please

thanks in advance

I have successfully installed mandriva linux on my tower but how can i tell if it has found my BELKIN F5D7000 wireless card and if it has installed a driver for it?

If it has not installed a driver does any one know where i can DL one from

thanks in advance

thank 4 that but i have to use my win xp install to access the net i have just again tried to do an install and it froze due to my wireless card (which it seems to do every time) then when i point it to the D:\ drive for the install it formats then resizes it and still informs me i only have 256mb of space to install the OS on any reason why?

thanks in advance

If it tells you you only have 256MB of space free, trying another distro won't help. Are you sure you partitioned it correctly and allowed enough space free to install?

 

Can you give us some more information on the partitions and sizes, maybe a screenshot too?

how do i attach a screen dump

i partitioned my HD with partition magic as an NTF file system i have given the correct model as i had to flash the bios in case of a problem there i will try what you have advised

thanks