Pain999

I have a ECS L7VTA (KT400 chipset) that I can't get any NIC card or the onboard ethernet to work with Mandrake 10.0. It works fine with Suse, Knoppix and Windows so I know it physically works but no matter how I try to configure Mandrake it won't work. Using a cable modem with a Linksys router and trying to set it up with DHCP. I have even tried disabling the onboard NIC and tried two other NIC cards but nothing seems to be able to get to the internet so it must be the motherboard. Mandrake seems fine with my other Nforce2 mobos, but for some reason it does not like this L7VTA. Anyone been able to get the LAN working with this mobo and Mandrake?

This is my ifcfg-eth0 file:

Device = eth0

BootProto = dhcp

Onboot = yes

MII_NOT_Supported = 0

Wireless_ENC_Key = ""

NeedHostName = yes

Anyone try it with MDK 10.0? Do you have to uninstall Firefox .8 first?

I get exactly the same symptoms. I don't know how to permently fix it, but I do know that if you do a Ctrl-Alt-F5 (or even F3), log in as root, then type poweroff. Start your computer back up and everything should be ok till it randomly does it again

BTW, I have a Nforce2 chipset & Ti 4200

I am not familar with ECS BIOS but maybe one of these tricks might help. Try the CPU disconnect in the BIOS if you have that option, and disable everything that your not using like maybe SATA and RAID. Linux uses the RAM differently and since I have a double sided DIMMs in dual channel i had to find a beta bios on one motherboard that I could enable command per clock so you also might look for a beta BIOS too.

What are you doing using Mandrake? If you wanted something hard to use then they have distros for you like Gentoo or Sorcerer. B)

I am quite happy to have the chance to have a working Linux system like Mandrake and learn the console commands at my own pace. If something easy was not an option then I would never have left Windows. Eventually your forced to learn some of it anyway as soon as you want to install some non-prepackaged software or even 3D video drivers.

Which motherboard model? I have two computers with Nforce2 chipsets( a DFI and an ABIT) running Mandrake 10.0 official just fine so I don't think it is the chipset. I have APIC enabled and the the H/D set to LBA. Before the 2.6 kernel I had trouble loading most Linux distros.

Try a live distro with the 2.6 kernel like Knoppix 3.4 and if that boots up then you know Linux works with that motherboard.

I guess there is no way to repair the entries. Removing and replacing worked.

Thanks!

I was playing with the Easy Urpmi and I think by issuing "urpmi.removemedia -a" I messed up the ability to install software off the CD's with the GUI Media Manager in 10.0 Official

I can no longer enable any of the installation CD's. I read the help sectiion provided with Mandrake, but it does not seem to work like they say it should. It looks like it should be as simple as checking the boxes off for the CD's I want to enable, but that does not work. It won't let me update the sources from the CD's either. The keys look fine too. Been playing with it quite a bit and I am totally stumped how to enable them again.

Linux.com does not exactly praise FC2

"As I sit before my new installation of Fedora Core 2 (FC2) I'm reminded of the first time I had to put down a beloved dog. FC2 suffers from some fatal flaws. For most people, it will be best to put this malformed whelp out of its misery and wait for the Fedora Project's next litter of pups, which promises some awesome powers."

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/05/26/1441241

As mysterious as the problem came, it just went away by itself?

Yea Sherpa I just have an "X" for a mouse and I do auto login.

Hmm, there seems to be a wide range of advise here?

Using Mandrake 10.0 Official and it was working really nice up to now. I don't think it is a hardware problem cause I dual boot with Windows XP and it works fine.

When I boot the computer everything looks normal up to the point it should start KDE, now I just get a blue screen instead. I do a Crtl-Alt-F3 or F5 and can log in to user or root, but when I try to StartX I get this very strange error.

Server is already active for display 0

If the server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.xo-lock and start again.

Xlib: connection to "0.0" refused by server

Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-Cookie-1 key

giving up.

Xinit: unable to connect to X server

Xinit: No such process (errno 3) server error

Thanks you guys are fast to help out!

Now I can rock out to some Iron Maiden midi Course maybe you would not have helped me if you knew what I was doing with this info but maybe there is one or two IM fans still out there.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Tower...20/maidmid.html

I want to unzip some midi filles and play them. Is there a way to do this with Linux / Mandrake 10.0?

Until ATI thinks people actually use their cards with Linux and 3D apps they are not going to work very hard at it. We need to start bugging ATI to get working on some better support for Linux drivers that support the 2.6 Kernal. I would encourage everyone to email ATI customer support and explain your desire to have some drivers that work already. You can fill out the form from the ATI download page for Linux drivers.

http://mirror.ati.com/support/driver.html

They don't really tell you to close down the X system. Try here:

http://www.rage3d.com/board/forumdisplay.p....php?forumid=61

I have not tried Suse, but from looking at the packaging it looks pretty much like Mandrake that they charge you a pretty penny for and there is not nearly as much forum support for Suse. I am sure it is a fine distro but I don't get what advantage it is personally going to do for me other than lighten my wallet?

For the high end: Intel does not really have 64 bit based cpu ready to go. AMD 64 and Linux is the way to go for sure.

For the low/middle end: AMD XP is very good value for the dollar...especially if you overclock a $75 XP 2500 to a XP 3200+ on a NVIDIA chipset motherboard.

Guess it does not really matter anymore but I think I figured out what the problem is. You have to have newer burning software and relax the ISO restrictions. E.g. If you have an older version of Nero( older than 5.5.9) you won't have the option Do Not Add ";1" ISO file version extention under Relax ISO Restrictions. Also enable Expert Settings, choosing No Emulation, and changing the Number of loaded sectors to 4 otherwise it won't boot!

I got 10.0 CE installed and updated on my computer with a nForce2 motherboard using the onboard sound and nic. Can I take that H/D and put it in another computer with a KT400 motherboard / SB Live and expect it to work or do I have to reinstall everthing from scratch?

Who ever asked about the 1 GB of RAM on a nForce chipset with 10.0 CE; I got 1 GB of RAM and it not only works with 1 GB, it loves the 1 GB! It seems to know how to spread itself out into the RAM so the hard drive rarely runs and makes everything wicked fast

I thought the sound was not working at first too, but it was just that the volume control was turned down. If you don't have mic hooked up then mute that too. I think one of the updates fixed this anyway.

I use KDE, but i get the same thing the first time I try to log out there is no option to shut down. After I log out and it auto logs back in, I now have the option to shut down. Something does not seem right here, unless that is the way it is supposed to work?

It would be handy to at least be able to have the updates burned to a disk for a friend with dial up. There must be a way?

I looks like they are addressing the bugs cause the last few days of updates have really improved the perfomance and got rid of the worst of the bugs. I now have a renewed confidence in 10.0 CE

I don't know which exact update increased the speed cause there were so many, but it definitely got snappier in the last few days of updates. The little bugs seems to be disappearing too so they are most certainly tweaking 10.0 CE like crazy with the 700+ MB of updates. All the improvements going into Mandrake makes me really appreciate the hard work they are putting into it. I am not seeing the same commitment on my other computer with Fedora so it looks like it is time fix that RHN update problem for good :D