barry thomas-brown

hi guys, sorry i never got back to you sooner. It seems the issue has resolved itself for the time being. I havent had a problem with the last couple of shutdowns. However I will keep the post open for now incase it re-appears. If it does i will give your advice a go. :)

Hi, I have noticed that when I log out of Mandriva, and then end Current session, my monitor enters sleep mode and my base unit stays switched on. I try coming out of sleep mode by moving mouse, touching keyboard, even pressing power button to kick it back to life, but nothing, i have to hold down the power button on the unit to turn my machine off. Any ideas what could be causing this? This has only happened since i did a clean install of Mandriva last week. Mandriva One is the only OS on my system. any help would be appreciated. baz

Hi greg, thanks for your response, but i have now resolved this issue. I basically just needed to tweak some settings in IWCONFIG, which appeared to work. thanks for your help. I am posting this from Mandriva, woot:)

hi guys, just letting you know i resolved the issue by getting rid of windows :) thanks for your help, i might try again sometime, but for now i will jump straight into learning how to use mandriva :)

hi, thanks, tried that but still no joy. I think it has something to do with not having a boot flag set on teh first partition? here is a link of the progress i have made with this : http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/mandriva-...-need-help.html we are stuck so any further help would be great :)

OK i can edit and save the menu.lst now. any suggestions on what i should change it to? thanks.

Hi, I am new to linux having installed mandriva One the other night on my machine. I have managed to set up a wireless connection however it is showing as 0% signal strength and does not allow me to access the internet (firefox shows as server not found). I am unsure if i have configured everything correctly. Here is some information I have obtained: i) I am connecting using: Ralink RT2500 802.11G cardbus/mini-pci ii) DHCP was not allowing me to connect, so i entered my IP, subnet, gateway etc manually. iii) Iwconfig shows as: lo no wireless extension ra0 RT2500 wireless ESSID "" Nickname"loclahost" mode:managed frequency=2.412ghz bitrate=11mb/s tx-power: -1dbm RTS thr:off fragment thr:off encryption key:off link quality: 0/100 signal level: -120dbm noise level: -79dbm RX invalid nwid:0 RX invalid crypt: 0 RX invlaid frag:0 TX extreme retries: 0 invaild misc:0 missed beacon: 0 iv) I never imported a driver it seemed to detect its own. anyone have any ideas? if its a driver issue, can anyone point me in the right direction of the correct one i need? I am using ASUS 802.11b/g wireless LAN card, but i couldnt see any linux drivers on their site. also, i have changed secruity status to standard, and allowed all apps access in firewall, but still no change. thanks.

I managed to install Mandriva One nice and easily enough the other night. However I am stuck on how to set up dual booting. I have Windows XP on one partition with M1 on the other. On start up i am presented with the options to boot with either linux or windows. when i attempt to boot up using windows i get: root (hd0,0) filesysyem type unknown partition type ox7 make active chainloader +1 _ that last flashing dash just stays flashing and nothing happens. I think i probably need to configure something somewhere in GRUB? However when i try accessing menu.lst i can edit but wont allow me to save. I have no idea what to change it to anyway can anyone guide me through setting this up? I am a complete linux noob, only using it for the last mmmm 10hours or so I am using the GRUB menu on start up. this is my partition set up: -------------------------------------- Disk/dev/hda: 163.9 GB 255 heads, 63 sectors/track 19929 cylinders units=cylinders of 16865 * 512=8225288 bytes Disk identifier = ox86828682 Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/hda1 7649 19928 98639868+ 7 HPFS/NFTS /dev/hda2 1 7648 61432528 5 Extension /dev/hda5 1 1819 8185854+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1828 1528 4888511 82 Linux Swap/solaris /dev/hda7 1529 7648 49158868+ 83 Linux partition table entries are not in disk order ----------------------------------------- this is what menu.lst shows: -------------------------------------- timeout 10 color; balck/cyan/yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxman default 3 title linux kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz Boot_Image=linux root= /dev/hda5 resume=/dev/hda6 spash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz Boot_Image=linux-nonfb root= /dev/hda5 resume=/dev/hda6 initrd (hd0,4)/boot initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz Boot_Image=failsafe root= /dev/hda5 failsafe initrd (hd0,4)/boot initrd.img title windows root (hd0,0) make active chainloader +1 ----------------------------------------- another curious thing, is that i cant save the above menu.lst if i try to edit it, it says make sure u have write access. I am logged in as root user though, or at least i think i am cos i get asked to authenticate 'root' with a password whenever i enter control console. any ideas or help would be appreciated, thanks!!! [moved from Hardware by Greg2 – Welcome aboard. :)]