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ian- Saw your suggestion about PnP OS setting in the BIOS, thanks. My current BIOS does not have an option for that. I will try disabling ipv6 as well as apic, thanks for those suggestions.

I tried turning off DHCP thorugh my router, yet this did not correct the problems. I haven't yet tried one of the spare NICS I have laying around to see if that corrects the issues. The onboard ethernet is based on the Cicada 8201 chipset. I just tried again to set the static IP for my PC--both through my Mandrake2005LE config and through the router, while leaving the other PCs networked through the router in their same configuration--and immediately after changing from DHCP to static IP, my PC slowed to a crawl upon rebooting, and I could not do anything internet related.

I followed the instructions for assigning static IP addresses at the following link: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=25212 Once I completed the steps, it worked for my purpose (using Azureus) but after a few hours (or a reboot) my PC would take forever to boot and eth0 would not function correctly (no internet browsing, etc) when the PC finally did complete the bootup process. The only thing that corrected these issue was to reinstall Mandrake. The details: I run Mandrake 2005 LE, I am home networked through a Linksys WRT54G router and my eth0 is the onboard ethernet from my Epox 8RDA3+PRO motherboard. Can anybody help me diagnose what I am doing wrong and perhaps help me correct it? Thanks. -Scott

coverup- Thanks. I will try that and see if it solves the problem. I will also update to 10.1 Official to see if this helps.

John- Here's what I've found: using: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-15,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 the DVD mounts automatically upon reboot, while using: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 also works, but I have to mount the DVD manually. You're right--it is peculiar.

Thanks, Ian for all your help. Good luck with your system build.

ianw1974 Thank you. This worked. Now data and movie DVDs will mount. In order to play movie DVDs I have to do ln -s /dev/hdc /de/dvd but each time I reboot, I have to creat this link again to play DVD movies. How do I create this link permanently? Thanks.

Before i call it a night, here's my /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 the DVD burner is /dev/hdc or /mnt/cdrom2 Does anything look wrong in my /etc/fstab?

Yep, I'm running the newer kernel. In fact, upon reboot, the older kernel version as well as the newer kernel version were listed as boot options in LILO, and I chose the newest version. After booting up, I checked from a terminal to be sure, and it's running the 2.6.8.1.24 version. There's probably something simple that I'm overlooking, or something I did that's causing this issue. Thanks again for your help, ian.

I updated my kernel, still no luck, the DVD still will not mount. Thanks for all the help. I need some sleep. Hopefully some sleep and time will help find a solution to this PITA problem.

I don't see a kernel source in /usr/src All that's in there are a few empty folders. SO in this case I just install the 2.6.8.1.24 kernel? THanks for all of your help with this, BTW.

Okay, through Install Software, there is a newer kernel version: 2.6.8.1.24mdk-1-1mdk So are there any specific things I should know or do before updating the kernel? WIll I lose any of the present data on my HD by updating the kernel? Thanks.

You're correct, no devfsd, but udev returned the following: udev 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off Does this help any? Thanks for the help so far.

You're right, though, I should update/install 10.1 Official. In order to do that, though, I have to backup ~120Gig of data. My only means of backing up for the moment if to burn to DVD, and if I can't be certain that after the upgrade to 10.1 Offical that my DVDs can be mounted and that data restored...

ian- Thanks. I have kernel 2.6.8.1-10mdk the easyurpmi source were updated/setup, yet when I checked for updated kernels, I got the following reply: Everything already installed SO, what do I do now? Thanks.