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I noticed as I read all of that opening post - When first getting my feet wet back in '00 with Linux I get pissed off and any given install would last for maybe four days and I would be back on windows, then I started grasping things on my own, I was also spending an hour at a time in it, not much at all. - I am still trying to crack my brothers closed mind open on the matter. He still demands that all packages must be self contained and not need any dependancies, updating it is slow, and it does not look pretty or act like windows. Hello, welcome to an operating system that is NOT windows? - When I started using linux full time, it was on my laptop, and everything works flawlessly. - I left windows becuase I got fed up with the stability issues, and constantly having to fork over money for software that was not worth the money I bust my ass for, especialy becuase at the time my main source of income was loading an industrial washer all night - on that note when I come home after loading that washer for eight hours, I wanted to use my computer, not settle in to defragment the hard drive, update drivers, scan for viruses, scan for spyware, update this and that, tune up the registry. Pretty much I note this was how I felt when I first started exploring outside the "happy" comfort zone I had known for a long while in windows. Yet when i want to use my computer, I use it. A half hour if that is spent every two weeks to maintain it.

Glad you got it fixed and your queit welcome!

Beta 1 is the same from when it was posted there, through you can download and install it, then add cooker repos and come to the latest version of everything. That's how my laptop is run, I install 2008.0 and then just add the cooker repos and update.

Looking into that further, I did find the card AR5007EG and it states that it works with the latest snapshot of madwifi and a patch...I can look into it more in a couple hours, but heres what a simple search turned up. http://www.ubuntugeek.com/atheros-5007eg-w...6-platform.html

I don't understand why it is reconizing it as an Atheros if it is an intel, if that is the case...my laptop was supposed to have a Atheros Card in it and instead it has a broadcom, not to mention a x800 instead of a x600 graphics card. so... if it does use an intel then the package would be iwlwifi-3945-ucode not sure if there is a dkms package or if it even needs one. What does Vista say for a wireless card?

I doubt it would be the wired NIC, but being unable to find the interface is odd. That being said, are you sure it's an Atheros card? I just looked the laptop up from LG's site, and the card listed for the e500 is the Intel® Pro/Wireless 3945ABG(802.11a/b/g) or 802.11b/g As far as I know they use their own chipset and not Atheros. http://www.lge.com/products/model/detail/e500_1_6.jhtml

dkms-madwifi is in the non-free repository. non-free does not mean you have to pay for it, it means that the packages contained their in contain propreitary code, such as the nvidia and ati drivers as well as madwifi. Not purely free and open source at least as far as I remember, I'm still sick lol Make sure you have the non free repository enabled on your system and then try again.

You do not have online repositories set up then. A good resource on the topic is here > https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...yurpmi.zarb.org I personaly use http://easyurpmi.zarb.org select your mirrors that are closest to you and follow the commands given. When you have the mirrors added, then go ahead and try the package installation and you should be able to install them.

I have a belkin wireless pci network card, it it also uses the atheros chipset. I use dkms-madwifi for that card, and pretty sure it will work for you as well. Will need to make sure your kernel sources are installed, pretty much the most simple is if you have a laptop, which I assume you do, make sure have kernel-laptop-latest kernel-source-latest kernel-laptop-devel-latest or to install all of this in one shot, type as root, urpmi kernel-laptop-latest kernel-source-latest kernel-laptop-devel-latest dkms-madwifi and then configure your atheros card as normal.

A work around I use for when kde-window-decorator crashes is to type as root kde-window-decorator --replace

I noticed the in-laws windoze computer had silverlight available to install earlier today from it's update center, which brought to mind there was an OSS version, Moonlight, I beleive. Are their any Mandriva Packages for this plugin? Any Ideas?

Um, I beleive kernel 2.6.22.9-1 is the stock kernel of the 2008 install. If you installed the latest meta packages then you should have kernel 2.6.22.12-1 and kernel source as 2.6.22.12-1 as those are the latest versions when I look at the update repo. what does uname -r return?

I just use the three "latest" files personaly. urpmi kernel-desktop-latest kernel-desktop-devel-latest kernel-source-latest and then since have nvidia... urpmi dkms-nvidia

Nevermind, I can't get to it as locales was uninstalled for some odd reason, and can't reinstall it becuase glibc is in compattible version wise.

I went to use urpmi and any command issued with urpmi returns the following before anything revelent to my commands. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en", LC_ALL = (unset), LC_PAPER = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_ADDRESS = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_MONETARY = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_SOURCED = "1", LC_NUMERIC = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_TELEPHONE = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_MESSAGES = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_COLLATE = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_IDENTIFICATION = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_MEASUREMENT = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_TIME = "en_US.UTF-8", LC_NAME = "en_US.UTF-8", LANG = "en_US.UTF-8" are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C"). error: Macro %_install_langs has empty body When I did go to set my location, I come to find out I don't even have a list of countries to choose from. Any Ideas?

http://easyurpmi.zarb.org

Hai your welcome ^_^

igtonoluck, it also depends on the video card model, I believe you had a 5500 FX? That one turned out to require the 100 version, my wifes is a 6600 and uses the 169 version. I unfortunatly forgot about that bit of info.

No, though I am aware of the compiz-decorator. The one I am looking for is Dekorator -> http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/d...l?content=35651 The rpm given for spring tends not to work right for me.

I'm looking for an RPM for Decorator, either for Mandriva 2008 or cooker. Anyone happen to have an idea?

I doubt you needed to reinstall the nvidia packages since they are DKMS modules or Dynamic Kernel Support Modules. Ment to adapt to any Kernel with out manualy installing and compiling. Though I have never encountered such an error with Nvidia and xorg so I have no idea where to go there. sorry :(

I happen to have the iso mounted as a nfs share and the source is included on the free dvd at DVD:/media/main/kernel-source-2.6.22.9-1mdv-1-1mdv2008.0.i586.rpm

Let us know what it returns and good luck

As far as I am aware, the new kernel (2.6.22.12) is booted by defualt and the prior kernel is there in the rare case the new kernel breaks the system. Though if you did reboot after installing the new kernel and uname -r returnes the version of the old kernel then yeah to verify I would select the new kernel from the list and see what it returned.

if 2.6.22.12 is instealled and uname -r is returning 2.6.22.9 then I would say should reboot your computer to let the new kernel take effect, at boot time the nvidia driver should also install as it is a dkms module.