seveneleven

Hi I need to install build-essential on Mandriva 2008 64 bit. All of my searches return the suggestion of using apt-get from the synaptic package. I have also read that it isnt recommended for Mandriva, and I can see why. All I get is errors. I am more comfortable with urpmi, but I dont know what the package is called that I need to download. I have tried urpmi build-essentials, naturally that didnt work. Can anyone help? Thanks for reading. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

That worked! thanks so much. Was getting really frustrated. I have been doing lots of searching but I dont think I ever actually searched for 5007eg. Thanks again!

Under Device Manager in Vista it has it listed as Atheros AR5007EG, and it is working. For some reason I guess it is a different NIC then the site lists. The AR5007 is the newest series, could it be that the madwifi driver isnt new enough? From what I can tell Mandriva isnt allowing ath_pci to install, or load.

Hmm I hadnt looked into that. Mandriva is recognizing it as an Atheros, so I assumed it was.

Ahhhh that worked. However I still am getting the same error. "Unable to find network interface for selected device (using ath_pci driver)" Would the wired NIC be causing problems?

Thank you again Dark, great info. I am new to Linux like I said and I LOVE the way you can update your system like this! I added Easy Urpmi and installed the urpmi --auto-select. Then I added kernel-laptop-latest kernel-source-latest kernel-laptop-devel-latest. However when it came to dkms-madwifi it said no package named dkms-madwifi? Do I need to add other mirrors maybe?

Hi thanks for the great reply. You are right it is a laptop. I ran the command you suggested in Konsole as root. This is the return: No package named kernel-laptop-latest No package named kernel-source-latest ... same for the others.

Hi just installed Mandriva 2008 on my LG E500, dual boot with windows vista. Mandriva is finding both of my Network cards just fine, however the wireless Atheros card isnt working correctly. When i go into network manager it doesnt give me any SSID's to log into. When I know that one is available. When I try to use the setup wizard I get an error, from my memory something along the lines of "unable to find network device using (ath_pci)" I am very new to Linux, any recommendations are appreciated!