montymintypie

Ok, I'll investigate when I next boot into Mandriva. When I'm in Windows I have to use manual IP addresses/DNS servers. Is it good or bad that I'm copying these setting onto the Mandriva install?

Hey, if this is answered elsewhere, PLEASE TELL ME. Thanks :D

I'm trying to use my NETGEAR WG311T with Mandriva 2008.0, and it wasn't recognized by the system (seen, but not controllable). I then got the .inf driver off the install cd for the card, and used it with ndiswrapper. Now I can see and control the card. HOWEVER, I can't connect to my network (seen by the card). I think it is encryption problems. I have tried the network password and equivalent network password (AEBS) on all of the encryption options, and still can't connect. Any ideas???

Will

Ok, thanks again for the advice and quick response times. I'm glad Mandriva works now! :D :D :D

BTW, sorry for triple post, but thanks for the quick and helpful replies!

Just another update, I extracted the .inf off the install disk that came with the card. Now I can see the network, but can't connect (Airport Extreme Base Station). Have tried password in all three options (WEP open, WEP restricted and WPA) and also tried equivalent network password. Any tips?

Yes!!!! It worked!!! I now have a working install of Mandriva Linux :D :D :D :D :D Now my second problem, which is too small for another topic. I need a driver for my network card to connect to my wireless network. I have one off my Windows install (which is what it wants) but the extension is .sys instead of .inf. Any ideas on how to convert?

I've now determined the problem. When I configured what I though were the right settings in mcc, I clicked test monitor. It then showed the black, totally unresponsive screen. Any ideas? Generic drivers? My card is a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440

Will

Just about to reboot and try. Hope it works! For the moment, here is syslog, which seems to be what has the most data (I was directed to there from kdm.log)

http://pastebin.com/m3255119f

Ok, before I start, I'm a total Linux n00b. I do however have minor experience with the Terminal in Mac OS X.

I have just finished installing Mandriva onto a second hard drive, along with Windows on the first. Everything works fine (eg, the bootloader) but whenever I boot into Mandriva it doesn't work. It seems that it can't initialize the display manager (I'm using KDM). It used to not boot because of ntpd not working, but I disabled it. From what I've gleaned from using verbose startup mode, everything loads fine, then it tried to load kdm. When this happens, I either get two screens depending on what method I use (more info on that in a bit): I either get a black screen that doesn't do anything, or a screen that looks like an input, with an underscore that doesn't respond to anything. I don't want to give up on Linux yet!!! I can provide more info, and I've already tried other methods in safe startup mode (startx, startkdm, xfdrake etc)

Will

P.S. If this is posted elsewhere, sorry! Just send me a link to the appropriate post.