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I'd actually prefer something between the two (cartoony, but as ridiculous as the last one). This is certainly going to appeal to more corporate people than the last one...

I haven't tried this myself (I don't have the same wireless card), but this guide may help you.

I've been using abiword mostly because I'm currently using gentoo and I can't face the Open Office compile times (I know I should install the binary, but I haven't yet). Notch one up for being lazy.

Is it possible to configure the modem via a web browser in windows? If so, how do you do it?

It's not uncommon for things like this to happen, people want to protect their IP and possibly make money (in general). YAST in SuSE was closed source for a very long time, it was something that made the distro unique and I had no problems with it being closed.

I've got the old version of the router/modem that you linked to - and it's great, real value for money. If you get one of those, just connect via ethernet - follow John's instructions and connect via lan. You should then be able to point your browser at 10.0.0.1, configure the modem with your username and password for your adsl service, and thats it!

I can't see anything obviously wrong. Can you post the output of the route command (you'll need to be root)? Have you checked that firewalls on either the linux or win ends are not blocking access. Whats your security setting in mcc?

What happens when you try to insert the module manually with modprobe?

It's possible to reduce the dhcp client timeout in the network script, but I can't remember the syntax for it in Mandriva. Sorry if thats not much help, but it gives you something to search for.

what module is the card using? Is it being autoloaded?

Have you installed the webdav filesystem driver?

Congratulations, I knew you'd get it going. It might be worth starting a new thread about internet connection sharing.

Perhaps the syntax is different in your version of cups to mine, but it works here. The printer name is the name of the share (SamsungM). It may be that you need to obtain some different drivers for the printer, you should be able to download a ppd file from linux printing - a quick google suggests that you should use the ML-1510 driver. This file is then placed in /usr/share/cups/model

You should also check the firewall in Linux, you can do that in mcc (Mandriva Control Centre)

start a terminal emulator, then: ping ip-address where ip-address is that of the windows machine. If you don't know the windows IP you can find with ipconfig ran from the cmd box.

You probably need some extra parameters in your mount command, something like: mount foo://path/to/share /mnt/TUDelft where foo is the remote server and /path/to/share is where your files are on that server. Note. I have zero experience with webDAV, this is just from NFS experience.

Arch might be for you, in some respects it's gentoo without all the compiling. You could also try FreeBSD, but last time I tried to install it on my laptop it hung at hardware detection.

Is this a standard dial-up modem that connects via ethernet, or an adsl modem?

After you've been asked for the root password you'll be asked for Name: Location: and Description: - you should add something sensible for these but they can be anything you want. Click continue When you are asked for the device, select windows printer via samba (last option for me). You'll then be asked for the device URI, this is where you add the smb://username:pass@workgroup/host/printer part. The workgroup and host are the windows networking names that you've given to the print server.

Can you ping your DNS servers?

This sounds like an ideal candidate for using CSS to style your web pages. You'd only need simple tags around each section - which are then styled however you like by a seperate stylesheet. You can even have multiple stykesheets to change the look and feel of the entire site very quickly.

Although not always the case many of these cards have drivers via ndiswrapper. If you check out the homepage and the accompanying wiki you should find lists of cards and chipsets. HTH

I think actually adding the username@host part is important in configuring cups to use samba, if you're just using the guest account then simply: guest:@HOME/host/SamsungM should suffice. If you have a password on the windows account, the syntax changes to: smb://username:pass@workgroup/host/printer The username and password you need to configure cups is for your root account on the linux machine (hence the username is root).

OK, you can try and configure the printer directly from the CUPS config page. Point a web browser at localhost:631 , go to "manage printers" (you'll probably be asked for your root password), "Add printer", you can then add some information about the printer, when you're asked about the printer connection, choose "Windows printer via samba" at which point you're asked for the location. I believe the syntax is: smb://username:@workgroup/host/printer Sorry if these details aren't quite correct, it's quite some time since I did this on a Mandrake machine.

You can configure both of these in mcc - generally, you need to use cups and samba to get your printer going.