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ssh is basically allowing remote shell access to your machine, to add extra accounts you need to create them a new account on the server. You can do that via mcc.

If you're using ext2 or ext3 as your filesytem you could lock the file: chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

Which mail server are you trying to configure, and what do you want it to do?

Have you checked to make sure your network/modem connection is configured? You obviously won't be able to use web sources without it.

Have you tried removing the mandriva ndiswrapper and replacing it with the latest source version? There seems to have been quite a few problems with the mandriva version.

For some people (myself included), the fact that Linux allows you to get your hands dirty by manually editing and compiling code, using a text editor to configure the OS and hardware and the multitude of advanced options is a major attraction. Of course where the problem comes in is that this creates a steep learning curve that some people just do not want to contend with (they want things to just work) - and that's all well and good. BUT, a large percentage of the people writing the applications etc for Linux are those that like to get their hands dirty and edit things by hand - they'll probably never want to use a GUI for xyz so why should they bother to write one, especially when they may not be recieving monetary compensation for it (the same is true, to some extent, for adding other features people request that the developer doesn't see as interesting). IMO this is where the distro manufacturers should be stepping in (and they do try, if you look at YaST and MCC) and providing a user-friendly way of configuring the software, this is an area which could do with vast improvement but when a company has to balance the books and decide who to hire it may not come out as top priority. Putting a bit more spin on it - with seemingly few people actually buying their linux distros who is going to pay for this GUI development??

Silly suggestion time (why is it always me that comes up with these). Have you checked that cron is actually running. Also check the crontab (or distro equivalent) to ensure it's running scripts from that dir.

It's a bit of a long shot, but make sure that both the key on your computer and in the router/AP are in the same format i.e. make sure one of the keys isn't in hex rather than ascii.

Obviously that's very subjective, and so is my own opinion :P I feel I'm more productive in OS X than any other OS I've tried, perhaps it's just the combinations of work that I do? Maybe becuase I can easily have a fully functional terminal and illustrator at the same time. Maybe it's expose. Maybe it's because all my music is already on there. Maybe my brain is just wired up all wrong. I do know this though, I see no need to install Linux on my iMac at all.

The best advice I can give is to read the pinned ndiswrapper (and the linked articles) at the top of this forum and work through the suggestions. You can then post back with any problems.

It sounds like touch-to-click is enabled on the trackpad - knoba's suggestion should fix that. I always use a small USB mouse with my laptop - I can't stand trackpads.

You'd need to set a private range IP that is in the range that your router will support. The IP provided by your ISP is your external IP and is the IP address of the modem/router.

With most hard discs having multiple read/write heads you can probably benefit from having some fragmentation. With most modern unix filesystems I tend to think that it's better you let the OS sort your data out rather then you align some blocks so the colours match :D This is probably true for NTFS too.

I had to use IRIX for a computational chemistry course at university and basically decided that UNIX was for me. Chatted to a comp sci friend who suggested Linux and pointed me to a copy of red hat 7.1 The rest, as they say, is history. B)

It's more helpful to see the PCI ID of the card, do a lspci -n and look for the lines that start with 06:02.0 (paste the lines here if you'd like us to check which is the PCI ID) - you can then check for this PCI ID in the ndiwrapper database.

You could try running chkrootkit to see if they left anything nasty behind. I agree with the others, reinstall unless there's a very good reason not to.

I think using the keychain script may help here if you want the security of having passphrases (I would advise it).

If WPA supplicant won't work from the CLI, it's not going to work by adding those commands to start up.

If you do "su -" rather than "su" modprobe should then be in your path and you should be able to use it.

It could be worth turning off all protection on the wireless network and making sure that you can then connect. Then gradually add the various security settings back in to see where things stop working.

You may also find something pertinent at the bottom of dmesg just after you try the modprobe.

[pedantic]MAC is either cosmetics or the MAC address of a computer, Mac is an Apple Mac computer[/pedantic] Yellow dog is for PPC machines, which includes most of the computers made by Apple in the last few years (but not the new Intel based ones) along with a few others.

I don't see how loading the module at boot is going to help if you can't do it manually. What's the error message you get when you try to load the module? Have you tried identifying your card via lspci and checking the ndiswrapper database?

You can adjust the runlevel services in MCC.

Have you tried reporting it to the easy-urpmi gang? I guess they will be aware of it, but you never know.