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OK I have looked at http://192.168.1.1. It is the connection I used to use when the USB connection was in trouble. There is no problem there. BUT "then you will simply tune the modem dialer". Don't understand! What, where, how?

It is now an Ethernet connection. The modem appears to be Hitachi AH4021 version MGCP There is a manual on the installation disk and good diagrams. You would need to explain to me how I can post these to the forum. I used 'Photobucket' for a different forum and they imported from there. There are four connections at the back of the modem: from left to right (looking over it from the front) power, telephone, ethernet connection to PC, ADSL connection to incoming telephone box. Don't forget that this is the same modem that Linux automatically picked up at the first installation when it was using a USB connection

– I am sorry if I am not fluent in computer jargon. I can not explain things in the correct technical language, nor can I understand much of it. - If I say the broadband connection is on XP, I mean, as I have explained, that I used XP for the installation of the modem which gives me the broadband (you may call it ADSL) connection. The software for installation was only for Windows and the files and regedit info are all on XP. If Linux can bypass that and pickup the internet connection, so be it. I have already accepted this. I do not understand, but on this occasion I do not need to understand. - I do not crash around the computer files like a bull in a china shop. I learnt a long time ago not to do that. Any files, like modprobe, ipconfig, sysconfig, that I have looked at, I have either copied (to post in a forum) or changed in accordance with advice on a forum and changed back when it had no effect. The connection failure, in any case, is evident immediately after installation of Linux. - “the most likely case is that you've somehow botched it up………if there's anyway you can return your settings to where they were before you started editing config filesâ€. I have hardly touched anything since the last, necessary, re-installation. - OK. The problem here seems simple. When I first installed Linux (One then Powerpack 2008) it automatically, as it should, picked up Internet even though it was a USB connection. Now it will not pick up the connection, which is now on an Ethernet connection. Yes, I know that †Mandriva should be able to detect your internet connection†but it does not. I have left it to automatic configuration so far. I will take John's advice and have a look at it manually. - I really am not trying to complicate things. I know perfectly well that the answer to the problem is something simple. But finding the simple solution is not necessarily a simple matter. None of the suggestions offered in the past two weeks has worked. So I post a lot of burble in the hope that it sparks off a click in someone’s memory. - The enquiry about VIA RhineII results from a suggestion that “The problem is that mandriva isn't automatically configuring your vt6102 settings and I'm not familiar with Linux startup configurations enough to figure it out….†referring me to the “Linux gurus†for assistance, and suggesting that I could try installing a second Ethernet adapter (and explaining patiently what an ethernet adapter is). - The internet connection is: Ethernet socket to modem to telephone socket on wall. I installed it with the aid of the club-internet disk – in French. Routers I know nothing about. - John and Mitchell, I can post details of the installation which is basically AMD64/Geforce7300 (I hope that means something) if you think it might help. I can dig up details of the modem if necessary. It all works very well on Windows. - Sorry. I have had a bad weekend, a bad Monday, and a lousy morning. Believe it or not I appreciate your help. Please accept that while I am ignorant of computer technology and jargon, I am not an idiot (in my time senior architect, senior planner, univ. lecturer and I have taught computer literacy – believe it!). Problem-solving is my scene, and I am damned if I’ll be beat by this thing, but I need technical help. I want so much to give Linux a good work out and this internet thing is …er…shall we say frustrating. There is a list of about 80 files waiting to be loaded/updated, according to the update button (I didn’t ask it – it told me), plus the cedega engine. (me) (you)

Thanks both. Any settings I have tentatively changed I have always reversed when I found they did not work. I will check thro the Mandriva internet configuration settings (yet again) using John's advice. I didn't have to do anything the first time, Linux just picked up the connection automatically which is what is so puzzling this time. But I have remembered a change that may be relevant. I recall that when Linux was first installed the modem was on a USB connection on Windows ME** and that was what Linux picked up. (I had retained ME alongside XP for a music scripting program that XP did not support, and had kept the modem installation there as I had so many problems with the initial installation.) When, of necessity, I reinstalled Linux the modem had been connected on an ethernet connection and installed thro XP**. I had used the old ME space to enlarge the main Linux partition. After this Linux no longer picked up the internet connection. May be of no relevance. I will check John's point about ADSL. **Yes I understand what you say about two separate systems, all I mean is that I was in ME or XP when I connected the modem and relevant software (club-internet etc) is installed there. Linux no doubt has its own ways of connecting.

I have an internet connection problem because mandriva isn't automatically configuring my vt6102 settings. Can anyone tell me how to manually configure the VIA VT6102? Perhaps that should be VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter NB..Greg. I found the entry was already as you noted it and played about with it (tried eth1 for instance), but no joy. Thanks all the same.

I mean that the internet connection is on Windows XPPro. Yes I know that Linux will normally pick this up automatically, as it did the first time that I installed Powerpack2008 after first installing LinuxOne. But for various reasons I had to reinstall Windows (twice) and Powerpack (finally a supposedly complete reinstallation). And from that point, and over the last ten days or so I cannot get Linux reconnected. The Internet button down right of the screen claims to be connected and shows the correct data. But the connection still does not work. I have had a long discussion over on Computing.Net I have now edited modprobe.preload by adding via-rhine, as suggested in one of your forums. But still no joy. I begin to wonder if something in Windows is blocking the link from Linux. But I am no expert (you had noticed?) :)

In connection with trying to solve an internet access problem.... How do I get write (and edit) rights for root files? I have one PC AMD64, with Windows XpPro-SP2 and Mandriva powerpack2008 on separate files on the same HD. Mandriva shows me as owner and the sole user. If I try to log on as ‘root’ I get ‘root logins are not allowed’. There is a password that opens the Control Centre. I can open Konsole and open files but cannot edit. ‘check that you have write access to this file…..’ How?

Ah! I'll put my specs on this time. And via-rhine is sufficient without being more specific. Thanks. I may have an access problem but that is a different matter. Like the bike.

I was directed to your topic https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=41331 by "my.computing net". as this may well have a relation to my own problem. I see the topic is listed as solved/closed. So may I ask another question. The advice in the above thread concerns linux 2007. I have Powerpack 2008, and Windows XPPro-SP2, both on the same hard disk. My Internet connection, broadband, is on Windows. The relevant advice, which solved the problem, concerns adding an entry in /etc/modprobe.preload. In pp2008 this reads modprobe.preload.d and contains two text files "cpufreq" and "floppy". "Floppy" just says "floppy"; "cpufreq" lists mainly cpufreq items. My question is simply one of how and in what terms do I add VIA-rhine II to this preload list (presumably in "cpufreq"? ).