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  1. Still looking for drivers for Linksys WUSB54G wireless adapter used for Time Warner Roadrunner cable for Mandrake 9.2.... Jim
  2. I removed the win536ep card from the machine and removed it from XP when it showed not connected on "my computer". Then tried Drakconnect again. It Still cannot find the USB linksys wireless connection. By the way, do you know what CICS is ? It's been around longer than Linux and Unix - and I still make a living with it. And they haven't outsourced it to India yet... Browsed around the Phoenix Bios menus but saw no references to a modem. I did notice that the onboard parallel port was disabled. Is this it ? Thanks
  3. How do I use the "bios" to turn it off ? That is, what is "bios." XP has been working since day 1 (Nov). Linux has yet to work. jsh
  4. Did uninstall and disable in XP. Made no difference for Linux. Checked disable and uninstall in 'man' in Linux. No relevance. Loaded drivers for nVidia but got several error messages...Used both tar and rpm. Same errors. Linux still sees the onboard winmodem. Should I tell drakconnect wizard Lan or cable ? Neither seems to help.
  5. Are there any instructions how to set up linux 9.2 for the wireless cable ? XP is on the same machine (different partition) and works fine with it. XP wasn't an easy install but I eventually got through the menus. No such luck with the drakconnect menus in KDE. It seems to think I have a modem and I cannot get the type to change from "modem." I do have a winmodem but gave up on that after a few months. I uninstalled the winmodem in XP. Is there such a thing as uninstall or disable in linux ? I am using one of my 2 USB interfaces with the Linksys WUSB54G wireless adapter. My machine is: AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 512 RAM Nvidia nforce MCP networking adapter Other Nvidia controllers Linksys wireless G USB networking adapter Intel 536 EP V.92 modem (uninstalled and disabled in XP) MAC Bridge miniport COM1, COM2, LPT1 (ECP) ports 2 Samsumg CD's, one R-W Nvidia geforce 2 integrated gpu Standard floppy disk Linux works fine except that I have never been able to connect to the internet. I have installed the matching versions of the kernel. I have the 7 CD version of 9.2 and was forced into reinstalling it from them during my exercises with the winmodem. I also have zonealarm and Pestpatrol as well as Norton antivirus running in XP. Are there similar products for linux ? I am writing this via the XP partition... Thanks, jsh
  6. comment: I have concluded that winmodems cannot be used with Linux - so says US Robotics and several Network administrators. Thus, for this and other reasons, I had Roadrunner cable installed and am now using a Linksys (CISCO) wireless network (router with remote for my second pc). Everything is installed and running fine with W98 on the router attached machine and XP on the remote. I am sharing files and programs as well as the internet connection over the wireless. Now I am back to the same old issue: I cannot get the linux partition to use this configuration. The Linux partition is on the XP pc. Any suggestions ? jsh
  7. Time Warner Roadrunner installed their cable modem on my "master" pc under W98. Then I installed a Linksys "G" wireless router to the cable modem to network my second pc which contains XP in one partition and Mandrake 9.2 in another. I am in the XP partition now writing this message. Thus everything is set up properly over the wireless. The interface for the wireless receiver on the XP/Linux machine is USB. Also I am set up to share the printer and specific folders on the "master" pc. How do I set up Mandrake to use the wireless network ? Thanks, Jim
  8. BVC, Did all that you suggested, including init 1 and 5. By the way it is kdenetwork kppp now runs but does not dial sucessfully. Went through it's setup and put what I thought was correct, but ng. Even comes back and says modem is ready. Switch to konqueror and can't get out. Noticed during kppp setup: "couldn't find interface ppp0: no such device" Eventually I get modem does not respond. logged out and then it forced me back into an install from cd's of Mandrake 9.2, which I did. Did not do updates since need a modem... Got back to where I was before - modem does not dial (do not hear the dial, ping, etc). Tried the kppp wizard and then did it manually. Off to see a movie - enough for this afternoon. Thanks for the help. Jim
  9. I started up the konsole, switched to su: kppp <enter> "command not found" I got to the directory where 4.62 was. The only 4.60 driver on the Intel download site is for a "Thai" version. Is this what I should use ? I went ahead and tried the commands again anyway since I've never been able to do all of them: I was able to do a make clean, make 536ep, make install as suggested. but rm -f /dev/536ep resulted in "operation not permitted". What else should I try ? Jim ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The 4.60 driver seems to be for the "Thai" version of Linux. Is this what I need to download and use ? Jim
  10. I'm back now - was on vacation. I installed 2 out of 3 of the available kdnetwork packages using the the rpm in the gui console. The one that would not install was: kdnetwork-3.1.3-37mdk with the message: "...due to unsatisfied kdnetwork-ktalk[==3.1.3-37mdk]" I then installed wvdial. I have no icon yet for either of these packages. The ones that installed no longer display in the gui. What's next ? Thanks, Jim
  11. :unsure: Getting closer... I downloaded the matching kernel-source and successfully did the rpm Uvh on the rpm file. I tried the make-dist-clean but it didn't do anything. Then went to the driectory created by the rpm and executed make 536ep make install They finished with "done" Then I went to the configuration wizard: autodetect normal modem (windmodem resulted in: "you don't have any winmodem.") /dev/modem came back with "connected" Having put the phone number, id and password of the server in during the wizard process, I told it to dial. I could hear it dial and get the pings back. When I tried to go to mandrakeclub, hal-pc.or or yahoo, I got: "the system doesn't seem to be connected to the internet. Try to reconfigure your connection." After a while, it said: Problems occurred during configuration. Test your connection via net monitor or mcc. If your connection doesn't work, you might want to relaunch the configuration." I did relaunch it several times, eventually getting so the modem was locked up and would not dial at all... I then restarted Linux and eventually got back to the above same status where it thinks it is connected but cannot reach the internet. ???? Incidentally, the wizard created no icon. The only way I could dial is to go through the wizard ... Jim
  12. I think it is time to regroup. Here is the history of how I got where I am: 1. I purchased the computer from EPO the beginning of Nov. with XP, including the Us Robotics modem (winmodem I now know). 2. I went to hal-pc where one of the members installed Mandrake 9.2 - which was a copy from the hal-pc.org network computer that he had on cd rom's. I assume that this is what I see on my system 2.4.22.10 He also split my system into 2 partitions, XP and Linux. 3. After US Robotics told me they do NOT support Linux and did not have drivers, I got EPO to swap out the modem for a generic Intel536ep device which they said was supported by Linux.. 4. I went back to hal-pc and was again assisted with what I thought were the drivers. We got up to an error message which he had seen before (I don't remember what it was). 5. I went down to hal-pc one more time but concluded it was time I purchased my own Mandrake license. 6. I purchased PowerPack 9.2 with the 7 CD's and manual. They air shipped it to me within a week. 7. I got off the web - with the 536ep drivers - a readme file that got me to the "missing autoconf.h" message. I searched the cd's but concluded this file was not on the cd's. 8. I downloaded the kernel source 2.4.22-22.10 from a web mirror site and burned the 40 mb onto a CD so I could go from XP to Linux. The KDE installer did something and said "already installed". 9. I have just looked at my purchased cd's from mandrake. The version I see on the source cd 1 is: kernel-doc-pdf-2.4.22-1mdk.i586.rpm Perhaps a total reinstall of Linux with my cd's is in order ? ??? Jim
  13. On the real question, I installed kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm - the entire thing I assume. Again I used the software install from the kde menu on the cd where I had burned this 40.2 mb file from the web. It came back and said "already installed". I get confused since I am not familiar with Unix commands and architecture yet. In the last 37 years I have made a living programming on every platform except Unix: IBM 360 OS,DOS, 370 OS, 3090 MVS, NCR 100-200, PDP 11, Vax VMS, PC DOS, Varian (octal), DOS telephone answering systems. The languages were: ALC, Neat/3/RPG,COBOL, Fortran and various pc scripts. I have designed and programmed databases and maintained tp monitors. Linux reminds me of NCR in the 60's when their SE's told us: "when you find out, let us know." Of course they are Unix now, having gone the way of all the 7 "dwarfs". In the early 80's I had to return to big blue to make a living. I owned an Altos Xenix machine for a few months then - intending to help a friend with a large contract. But when the large contract vanished, I couldn't figure out how to make money with it. So I considered myself lucky to sell it for 75 % of what I had paid for it. I only spent a few months looking at the friend's C/Informix manufacturing system. I am trying to move over to Linux/Unix so that I can contract when I retire. I will be 61 in January. I have a lot more time now ... Jim
  14. I used the "software install" under the "file" menu within the kde window. I highlighted "Intel536ep-462-M91-smp.tgz" on the floppy and executed the install. I do not know which files were installed but the reply said "already installed". Jim
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