mystified

If you're using kde you can use the menu editor. I don't know about gnome.

Well I had to use cups to configure printing because doing it through mcc didn't work. And my printer is well supported. I guess Mandriva will last on the laptop now that I've got what I need working.

No idea ian. All I know is that I set it to 0 and no longer get the error.

Hi lawsonrc,

Thanks for the great links. I'm glad to hear you're doing well. I'm mad at your Rockets for beating the Spurs the other night but I won't hold that against you! :D

mysti

Thanks tyme. For an arch guy you come in handy. :P There was no security line in the conf file but I added it and I didn't get an error message so I have to assume it's working. Thanks!

I went to run updatedb and got the following:

[root@localhost mystified]# updatedb -u
slocate: fatal error: Security level must be 0 or 1.

I'm not sure what they mean by security level. When I installed I set it to normal. In mcc there's security for setting up a firewall but I never set one up which wouldn't apply to this anyway.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

tyme, I installed my wireless in 2006 with a new install with ndiswrapper and my windows broadcom driver and it worked immediately. The problem was I had to reboot and after that, even reconfiguring it, it wouldn't work. I had a problem in 10.1 with a wireless compatible card where everytime I rebooted I'd have to set up wireless again but at least that worked so I could live with it. The problems that I ran into were just screwy ones. First it couldn't install ndiswrapper from the disk. So I thought well I'll just compile it. No big deal, I'd installed development packages. But kernel-source isn't installed with development which to me is completely stupid because you need it for compiling. So I tried to install it and it wouldn't install. So I set up easy urpmi and downloaded ndiswrapper from the main mirror. Then it tells me I needed a rpm that I could only get from the club. I tried googling for it and it wasn't available. Turned out I didn't need it. Then it told me I needed bcmwl5.sys from windows which I finally found and downloaded only to find it wasn't needed either when I finally got it working. It was just one thing after another. Sorry, I'm just completely frustrated atm.

This is the worst Mandriva yet. It took me three hours to get my wireless network working, I have to manually mount my cds. Everytime I boot I get an error message from kscd. I haven't tried printing yet which didn't work well in 2006. Whatever happened to that great distro that just worked out of the box?

My hard drive is fine. The lappy is less than six months old. I reinstalled 2006 and this time everything seems to be working fine. Including wireless. It's all good.

Duh! I didn't notice the - and the . and was expecting it to end at rpm.

Thanks for pointing out the obvious.

I am trying to install java for mandriva 2006. I downloaded, followed the instructions but got the response that it couldn't locate it. So I did the following:

[root@localhost mystified]# updatedb
[root@localhost mystified]# slocate j2re
/home/mystified/Desktop/j2re-1_4_2_13-linux-i586-rpm.bin
/home/mystified/Desktop/j2re-1_4_2_13-linux-i586.rpm
[root@localhost mystified]# cd Desktop/
[root@localhost Desktop]# rpm -iv j
j2re-1_4_2_13-linux-i586.rpm	  j2re-1_4_2_13-linux-i586-rpm.bin
[root@localhost Desktop]# rpm -iv j2re-1_4_2_13-linux-i586
error: open of j2re-1_4_2_13-linux-i586 failed: No such file or directory

Um, it's there but it's not there? New one for me. Any ideas?

Kind of hard when you don't have a internet connection on the lappy eh?? :P

Yep, you have to emerge udev and it checks it at boot. Thanks though tyme cause without you saying that about devfs I never would have thought to check lilo.

[rant]I had terrible luck with 2006. It could only print sporadically, k3b couldn't detect my dvd burner, I couldn't get wireless working with ndiswrapper but I won't blame that on mandriva as I may find that to be a problem with any distro.

So anyway, I just worked out of windows for my school and after finishing my exams this week I thought I'd try 2007. I burned all four cd's, checked md5sum which k3b does automatically and I burned at 4x speed. All is good. Then I go to install. The first cd one didn't do anything at all. It just sat there and blinked. So I downloaded from another mirror, md5sum checks ok, this one gets to the install packages part and freezes. I tried booting with it twice. So feeling very frustrated I downloaded again. This time it worked. Then I get to cd two, package after package kept failing and they were ones I couldn't do without, like kde libraries, cups, etc. So I find another mirror. Download again and have the same problem again. Who knows what would happen with cds 3 and 4. So I'm now downloading kubuntu.[/rant]

tyme got me thinking with his devfs. I was thinking, no we quit using that and it's in lilo. So I went and checked lilo in mandriva and looked for the line which should look like this:

append="Gentoo = nodevfs "

Unfortunately I had left an o off of Gentoo. I went duh! Edited the line, rebooted and now they work! :D

Could mysti do an "ls /dev/hd*" ? I'd like to see the permissions on the drive.

 

James

ls /dev/hdc doesn't show permissions.

localhost mystified # mount

/dev/hda7 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime)

proc on /proc type proc (rw)

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec)

udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec)

/dev/hda8 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime)

/dev/hda1 on /mnt/mandrake type reiserfs (rw,noatime)

/dev/hda6 on /mnt/mandrake/home type reiserfs (rw,noatime)

/dev/hda9 on /mnt/lfs type reiserfs (rw,noatime)

shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85)

/dev/hdc on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,unhide)

You said to mount it. :P

Here's the output of mount with a data cd in the drive:

/dev/hda7 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime)

proc on /proc type proc (rw)

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec)

udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec)

/dev/hda8 on /home type reiserfs (rw,noatime)

/dev/hda1 on /mnt/mandrake type reiserfs (rw,noatime)

/dev/hda6 on /mnt/mandrake/home type reiserfs (rw,noatime)

/dev/hda9 on /mnt/lfs type reiserfs (rw,noatime)

shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85)

no /dev/hdc

There is no output. It's just

localhost mystified # mount /mnt/cdrom

localhost mystified #

And if you look at /etc/fstab you'll see that /mnt/cdrom is linked to /dev/hdc

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto unhide,noauto,ro,user 00

You're supposed to be able to read my mind. :P

It still can't find the dvd drive unless I launch the program as root. When I launch it as root I have sound.

Ok, I'll try just about anything.

EDIT: added, no change.

Here's all of it:

root::0:root
bin::1:root,bin,daemon
daemon::2:root,bin,daemon
sys::3:root,bin,adm
adm::4:root,adm,daemon
tty::5:
disk::6:root,adm
lp::7:lp
mem::8:
kmem::9:
wheel::10:root,mystified
floppy::11:root
mail::12:mail
news::13:news
uucp::14:uucp
man::15:man
console::17:
audio::18:mystified
cdrom::19:mystified
dialout::20:root
tape::26:root
video::27:root
cdrw::80:
usb::85:
users::100:games,mystified
nofiles:x:200:
smmsp:x:209:smmsp
portage::250:portage,mystified
utmp:x:406:
nogroup::65533:
nobody::65534:
ldap:x:439:
sshd:x:22:
cron:x:16:
lpadmin:x:106:
mystified:x:1000:
locate:x:245:
messagebus:x:1001:

users, wheel, audio, portage, cdrom.

Adding myself to the group cdrom didn't help.

I just discovered that if I launch the programs as root they work. I'm added to the group audio but it's a permissions problem.