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Hi, thanks for the info. I tried running nspluginwrapper but still no joy. [root@none plugins]# pwd /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins [root@none plugins]# ls -l total 8624 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7040080 May 26 05:53 libflashplayer.so* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3251 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4504 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2235 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 279168 Feb 19 13:34 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Feb 19 13:34 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt* [root@none plugins]# nspluginwrapper -i libflashplayer.so *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libflashplayer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for libflashplayer.so [root@none plugins]# Looks like I'm still missing something. ? DC

Hi samantha, first are you sure you can not afford broadband? If you have cable internet available in you area you might want to see if they offer cable lite. That's what I have at home. I'm on Bright House - Road Runner Lite. It offers 128K up and about 500K down. The upload speed is just fast enough to support VOIP. I use SunRocket VOIP to replace my over taxed POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) If you consider the cost of the POTS line and dialup together and then compare the cost of cable lite and VOIP together the cable lite comes in just below the cost I was paying for dialup. Yes you read that correct! I now pay LESS for broad band then dialup! I also get free long distance to the USA and Canada. Then to add to the deal I can receive calls while online (could not do this with dialup) I do have to cancel any large uploads to give the VOIP all the bandwidth but it really don't mind as it does not happen too often. If you do not have cable internet available you should be able to configure the external modem to work well under Linux. I believe all external serial modems are what is known as hardware modems. If it is a USB modem then you may have trouble. I have a like new Supra Max external serial modem that worked great under Linux. It was as fast as they come on the speed tests that I ran. If you want it I can sell it to you for half price. I could run it through ebay if you would like and give you first dibs on it. Just drop me a note. Hope this helps, DC

Hi Darryl, thanks for the info. I was afraid it might be something like that. I will try a few more things and if I ever get it to work I will post a follow up. Take care, DC

Hi all, I'm having trouble getting flash to work on my Mandriva Spring 2007. It's a fresh install on an AMD 64 and I have GNOME with Firefox 2.0.0.3. First I tried downloading the Adobe Flash player from: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/do...=ShockwaveFlash And tried to install it using: rpm -Uvh flash-plug in-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm There were no errors shown in the terminal. I tried to use Firefox but flash was not working so I ran some searches and found some postings on the need to copy the libflashplayer.so* to /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins I did that but still no Flash. After some more searches I found mention of libflashplayer.so* being the wrong version in: flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm Comparing the download from Adobe against one I found in the post I do get a different file size and date: [root@none dc]# rpm -qplv *.rpm | fgrep .so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7029784 Mar 7 14:47 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7040080 Dec 8 18:12 /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so So I tried to install the newer one but still no flash. after running rpm -ivh flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm I had these two files located in: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 856 Dec 15 16:51 flashplayer.xpt* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7029784 Mar 7 14:47 libflashplayer.so* (Note - the flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm did not install the .xpt file, it was there only after the second try on flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm) Then I tried to copy them to: /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 856 May 20 11:32 flashplayer.xpt* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7029784 May 20 11:32 libflashplayer.so* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3251 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4504 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2235 Mar 24 19:41 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 279168 Feb 19 13:34 mplayerplug-in-dvx.so* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1021 Feb 19 13:34 mplayerplug-in-dvx.xpt* Must be the right place as there are other plugins there that are working. Still no flash. So I tried to erase the newer plug in and was hoping to try re-installing the one I got from Adobe. [root@none dc]# rpm -e flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm error: package flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm is not installed [root@none dc]# rpm -ivh flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] package flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1.el5.rf (which is newer than flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release) is already installed package flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release is already installed There seems to be a bit of confusion here ;-) [root@none dc]# rpm -q *.rpm package flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm is not installed package flash-plugin-9.0.31.0-release.i386.rpm is not installed [root@none dc]# How do I un-install these two plug ins? Thanks for any help, DC [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Update - it woked! The computer boots now with the network coming up quickly and no errors. Looks like that is all it needed. Thanks, DC

Hi, I think you may be on to something. This morning when I booted the computer the network was down. Took a look at the messages file and found: May 16 06:06:03 none mdkapplet[5606]: Checking Network: seems disabled May 16 06:06:09 none drakconnect[6699]: ### Program is exiting ### May 16 06:06:12 none drakconnect[6846]: ### Program is starting ### May 16 06:06:13 none mdkapplet[5606]: Checking Network: seems disabled May 16 06:06:23 none mdkapplet[5606]: Checking Network: seems disabled May 16 06:06:31 none drakconnect[6846]: running: /sbin/modprobe via-rhine May 16 06:06:31 none kernel: via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker May 16 06:06:31 none kernel: eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1d400, 00:14:2a:f5:19:d7, IRQ 177. May 16 06:06:31 none kernel: eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link 41e1. May 16 06:06:32 none ifplugd(eth0)[6892]: ifplugd 0.28 initializing. May 16 06:06:32 none kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 May 16 06:06:32 none ifplugd(eth0)[6892]: Using interface eth0/00:14:2A:F5:19:D7 with driver <via-rhine> (version: 1.2.0-2.6) I just put the via-rhine in the modprobe.preload file, should know if it helped the next time I boot. Thanks, DC

The computer has been on for over an hour and the jump is gone. Looks like it had something to do with the ACPI and power settings in the BIOS. I believe this computer has a faulty ACPI as it has not worked correctly with other OS. Got to run, DC

Hi, just took a look but do not see much. Just the amd64-agp 3 times. --- # /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored. # this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY # for old kernel use /etc/modules amd64-agp amd64-agp amd64-agp --- BTW - my ethernet net connection just started working and I'm not sure why. I was logged in as root and just started to try and use the GUI menu (configure your computer -> Network -> new conection) to try and double check things when I saw the network plug icon at the top right screen show connected. I'm using the computer now to post this. I will post a follow up if I can figure out what fixed the problem. It might have been nothing more then logging in as root instead of a user. (When I logged in as a user it did ask for root pass word but maybe the config did not stick until I logged in as root) Got to run, DC

Thanks for the reply, I put a stop watch on the jump and it would happen every 10 min on the dot. The messages log did show some type of ACPI error so I went into the BIOS and found that the ACPI was set to OS aware and power management was set to 10 min. Will post back if the jump goes away. DC

Thanks for the reply, I just ran lspci -v on both DSL and Mandriva and both are the same: Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78) Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine II] Embeded Ethernet Controller on VT8235 Flages: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Looks like I need to try and figure out how to compare the kernel module of the working DSL against the non working Mandriva. Come to think of it I think DSL uses an older kernel. Got to run, DC

Hi all, I have a fresh install of Mandriva Spring 2007 on a AMD 64 computer. Every 10 minutes I get a strange screen flicker/jump. I also hear a noise from the computer much like the sound you would get when a computer goes into sleep mode. Maybe a service or process that is getting called every 10 minutes but is not working correct? Any ideas? Thanks, DC

Hi all, I have a fresh install of Mandriva Spring 2007 on an AMD 64 computer. The install went well; however, I'm stuck with no Internet or network access. DHCP does not seem to be able to get the correct IP address so I tried using static. First I used the settings from a IP camera that I know is correct (un-plugged the camera to free up the IP Ect.) After doing this ifconfig shows the correct IP and I can ping it but I can't ping anything on the LAN or the WAN. I know the ethernet card is hooked up and working as I can boot Damn Small Linux (DSL) and it works fine. I have full Internet and network access with it and can ping anything. BTW - DHCP works fine with DSL. Next I tried entering the network info that I got from running ifconfig on DSL into Mandriva using the Mandriva Linux Control Center (set up a new network interface) after doing this everything looked just like it did on the working DSL but I can not ping past the IP address. Looks like I'm going to need some help and ideas to try and sort this out. Thanks, DC