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When downloading a file it will suddenly stop and I cannot resume the download. I then get an error message saying: "a file named x already exists". If I choose to pause a file during download the problem is the same. It cannot resume. This does not happen always when downloading but quite often it does.

 

I've seen some bug reports online with similar issues but no suggestions on how to solve this. Anyone else with this problem? How to solve? It just broke a 2 GB download at 40%. I'd hate to start over.

I had this happen one time on an older version of Mandrake Linux, it hasn't happened to me with any version of Mandriva, yet. I believe that what happens is Kget picks up the wrong file size off the server... I don't know why, nor can I prove this theory. To fix this I had to delete the ~/.kde/share/apps/kget/logs and remove everthing from the ~/.kde/share/apps/kget/transfers.kgt file except the first line

[Common]

This should fix Kget for you, but it will not save your 2GB d/l. I'm sorry, but I know of no way to resume and save that file for you with Kget.

For the record, I use wget for anything over 500MB, because I can resume anything that gets screwed up while d/l with my connection.

Ok, now that I have a way to get the commands to paste in the console, let me ask this.

 

I copy the text that is generated by Easy-urpmi and run it in the console.

 

Does this only update the servers to be used? I still need to do the update from the MCC, is that correct? (Or alternately, run update from the console)

urpmi.removemedia -a

first.

Then copy the text into the console, it will update your media_info for you. It's not necessary to update it again from the MCC or konsole.

I just tried it, and it works for me.

I haven't upgraded to 2007.1 yet, but I have tried beagle in another distro. I had the same problem with the HD churning away after my daily bootup for a week. I thought that a week was sufficient to index my drive... so I removed it.

I noticed that for some reason if I open any pics with F-SPOT photo viewer for gnome pc crashes and goes back to login screen... Has anyone else seen this and where would I go about reporting this bug?

How to use Bugzilla:

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/Bugzilla

Please read this section:

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Ho...ubmit_a_new_bug

To search for bugs, or submit a report:

http://qa.mandriva.com/

A quick search for 'F-SPOT' found no bugs listed with 2007.1 as of yet.

Congrats!

I know you've spent a lot of time on it. Have you tried encryption yet?

One other thing I forgot - Debian isn't supporting WPA for wireless encryption. So you are kinda just left with WEP.

I believe that depends on your wireless device? I'm left with WEP because of my Broadcom card.

Depending on your device, have you read and tried this:

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-wpa/wpasupp...;rev=0&sc=0

From the wiki:

http://wiki.debian.org/WPA

so..they ain't free as in freedom.. but free as in free-beer .. correct?

Not Richard Stallman's free (cool pic, I saw it), but yes, free, as in free beer! :)

Does anyone know a nice scrabble game under linux (and please not the one runnong in the shell...)

I think pyscrabble is online multiplayer only? Is that what you want?

There's the game xscrabble, it's fairly simple to build. You need xscrabble and xscrabble_en (or xscrabble_fr) to make it work:

ftp://ftp.ac-grenoble.fr/ge/educational_games/

if you have any problems let me know.

when i type

urpmi dkms-ati

It says, there is no such package called dkms-ati..

Have you set up your repos using easy-urpmi? You need the plf-free and plf-non-free repos? It's there!

Open your gui package manger and search for ati, and you should find it.

If you haven't already done so, use easy-urpmi at the top of this page, be sure to add the plf repos. Then do:

urpmi dkms-ati

select the fglrx driver for your card. Also check to see that you have libmesagl installed.

This link only provides the files for firmware revision 3.0. I have no ides what the firmware revision is.

You can use the link at the top of this page for easy-urpmi, and be sure to add the plf repos to your system.

then install:

urpmi ipw2200-firmware

that will have the different versions, and work with your kernel's native driver.

Linux support:

http://support.intel.com/support/notebook/sb/CS-006408.htm

It would be interesting to try a live CD of Debian to see whether that's any easier or less fiddlly to use, but I guess they don't think they need one.

Give it a try:

http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/

http://live.debian.net/

System > Configuration > KDE > System Administration > Input Actions > New Action > Action type > Keyboard Shortcut -> Command

It looks like there's a hardware address there.

Yes, you have it there. But you didn't have it in another post at Debian.

My wireless is set to channel 11

 

When I go under network tools for eth1 it shows interface information hardware address not available

It appears that your doing this from another box, ssh maybe? I know it's hard but can you disable the Ethernet and try the wireless, they don't always work well together using Debian Etch.

I had wireless working in Debian and then suddenly it stopped. I even tried reinstalling to no luck. I tried the native linux driver following the Debian Etch installation guide but couldn't not get wireless working. After googling for days (literally) I have discovered the following. The native drivers will sometimes not work because there is a conflict with udev.

It's not really a conflict, but more of a confusion as to where the driver looks for the firmware. This is corrected when you copy your firmware to /lib/hotplug/firmware.

I'm still thinking about your problems with this using Mandriva... which leads me to believe it's not a Debian specific problem, and I've read your Debian forum posts.

So with whatever driver you decide to try... do you have any other devices using your router at this time?

I would suggest changing your router's channel, maybe the problem is there... I noticed you didn't have a hardware address. Check for a Hwaddr with

ifconfig -a

Xubuntu requires 192M RAM to install

From my Xubuntu link:

Alternate Install CD only required you to have 64MB RAM

Using an old computer I am trying to learn Linux on. :) only 128M RAM. Hope it's enough!

It's enough to learn Linux on, but not enough to use KDE or Gnome with Mandriva. I would suggest you try Xubuntu, and even with that you will have to use the alternate install Cd to install with a 128 MB of RAM.

http://www.xubuntu.org/get#requirements

You could also try Puppy Linux:

http://www.puppylinux.org/

I suggest these because I have used them both on older systems.

You could try adding the kernel boot parameter:

pci=routeirq

to your grub or lilo bootloader.

Which install CD (ISO) did you use?

We could use just a bit more info about your system, please post the output of

uname -a

and

lspci -v

I also found this command while researching Debian: apt-cache search package name. Now I know how to find the exact name of the packages I need.

I have never used it (I use Gnome and Synaptic), but if I used KDE, I would try Adept

apt-get install adept

for a gui package manager with a search feature.

I could not get WEP encryption to work and WEP is the only option offered. I don't know why it didn't work. It's pretty straight forward and easy to use.

perhaps you could restart your wireless with the native driver and make it work, like you are doing with ndiswrapper? Just a thought. :P

As far as my wireless card goes I went to Acer and filled out an online technical support form. It says it takes 3 to 4 business days to get a response so hopefully I'll hear from them by the end of the week.

If it were my lappy... I would also call them on the phone:

http://us.acer.com/acereuro/page11.do?sp=p...p;crc=790373818

End User Technical Support and Service (USA only)

For end user technical support, spare parts and service: 1.800.816.2237

So I ran as root: /etc/init.d/networking restart. And it started my wireless. I don't know why it's not starting at boot but is there some file I can edit that will tell it to start at boot?

In your /etc/network/interfaces (if your wireless is eth1)

make sure you have the line

auto eth1

for wireless, and

allow-hotplug eth0

for ethernet.