Dustpuppy

Have you been able to login to the router before?

Do you have a windoze box handy, and can you log in to it from that?

Are you sure you got the original admin password OK? Try re-settting the router again, then turn it off and then on.

As far as OO goes, uninstalling and then re-installing it can help with speed-up times (if you installed it originally when you installed the OS).

Also, do "ps- aux" in a terminal to see if anything's hogging resources.

Physical connections: phone socket > adsl filter > netgear router > ethernet socket. (previous modem installed in rubbish bin)

First, take your Mandrake firewall down (in the Mandrake control centre).

Remove all installed connections (also in the MCC).

Log on to your router and fill in all your login info, including getting DNS servers automatically. Check that you want to router to act as a DHCP server. Logout (it'll restart). See if your lights are working properly on the router. Give it a minute to connect and send login info.

Back in the MCC, add a new connection - eth0, DHCP, you shouldn't need any other information. Check that it'll start on boot. When you finish the wizard, it should bring the connection up.

If this doesn't work, come back :)

Thanks :)

How would I go about doing that?

ctrl-alt-F5 to get to a command promt. Login as root. Then do

vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Press "i". Scroll down to Section "screen". Change "DefaultColorDepth" to 16. Press esc then type ":wq". Try "startx" or "startdm". If neither work, reboot.

If it all goes horribly wrong, go through the install again and do your monitor settings there (and test them there as well - the "test" button).

(ETA: wretched vi commands...)

Sorry, that was a really badly phrased question :slaps self around head with fish:

I'm not using the wireless bit of the router, what I want is to mask my IP address to other people on the net. Can I do that?

I'm connected via a Netgear DG824M router - does anyone know how I can stop my IP address being broadcast all over the place?

Try it with 16 colours. This sometimes works.

If your modem's going to be an Alcatel, try Let's Eat Gary's thread.

From personal experience, it works but it's not terribly stable. Getting a router made things much better.

Sorry for fuzziness (and incorrect placement of qu.) -

I've currently got a 60Gb hd with 37Gb as a NTFS partition with XP on it, the rest is a Mandrake 10.1 installation. I want to add a new 40Gb hd and tell Mandrake to use it as well as the 23 Gb on the first harddrive.

The 40Gb hd is a cast-off from my brother and currently has Suse 9.1 on it, but I want to wipe it completely.

I know the obvious thing to do would be install XP on the new hd and Mandy only on the first one, but that would mean re-installing both OS's. What I'd like to do is incorporate the new hd into the 10.1 installation without having to re-install it (cos I'm lazy ).

Is this possible?

I've been given a 40gb hard drive, which I'd like to include in my desktop setup. As I only use XP to play the Sims I don't need any more than the 37gb for it that it already has. The question is, how can I tell Mandrake that it can use the new hd (it's currently got suse on it)? I'd really like to be able to do this without re-installing Mandy!

Cheers!

[moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

Have you installed the latest firmware from the Netgear site? It sounds like what happened to me when I first tried to install my Netgear without updating.

When you log on to the router, do you have "obtain server addresses automatically" (or something like that) checked?

And check in glxinfo that you've got direct rendering on.

1) any difference running under root?

2) Which drivers are you using? Have you tried downloading from a different site and re-installing?

2) try fixing your simlinks in case they're broken: as root run

ln -fs /usr/lib/libGL.so.$NVVER /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so

ln -fs /usr/lib/libGL.so.$NVVER /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1

ln -fs libGL.so.$NVVER /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2

where $NVVER is the version of your nvidia package, e.g. 1.0.6106

What is the output of glxinfo?

Where do I find the sane packages and which version would be most appropriate?

If you've got your sources set up properly then it should be available from the "install software" bit of the MCC. Just search there for "sane".

[edited to add: I don't know if you need the plf sources or not for sane, but it's a good idea to have them anyway!]

Any idea where to get hold of Mandrake packages?

I had that happen twice when installing on the parental computers. On the first one, it turned out to be a bad burn - take the burn speed right down in Nero (to something like 4x). It'll take forever but you shouldn't get glitches.

On the second one, it just seemed to be a hardware problem. I tried installing again, got the same error, then tried again and it worked. It was a very old, uncared-for machine.

8. No solution, but that happens with my Dell inspiron on 10. Make an icon that runs the "halt" command...

Kill your firewall and then try logging onto the router. Make sure it has the latest firmware installed - what type is it?

running through the nvidia installer again usually does the trick, too :)

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I'm not usual :D It kept on saying it couldn't restore (or something) the links. How I wish nvidia would release their source to the community and save us all this hassle... Maybe I'll get hold of the CEO's address and send him (unfortunately probably not her) a copy of the Cathedral and the Bazaar for Christmas

no

but you do have to su to root in a terminal

Pedant :P

Yes.

Yesssssssss!!!!!!!!! It's working!!

I had my simlinks all mixed up and so direct rendering was off (as glxinfo would've told me, sheesh). So I did

ln -fs /usr/lib/libGL.so.6106 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so

ln -fs /usr/lib/libGL.so.6106 /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1

ln -fs libGL.so.6106 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2

and I can frag things again! Woo-hoo! :ph34r: