marksman

This works as well, and gives a better result. Thanks to VeeDubb's advice here, I have now eliminated all but one of the problems I encountered when I switched to mandrake 10ce. I am still unable to get my Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless network card to work on my laptop.

Mandrake 10ce - I have got it to run on : AMD Duron 1Ghz, (256Mb RAM), EPSON C40SX - no issues at all. Intel Celeron (256Mb RAM) - had issues with the USB printer, an HP PSC 1210 - but that was not an issue with the printer nor the machine but rather with kernel 2.6.3. IBM T20 (700GHz) - I haven't checked out the Winmodem, but I suspect it doesn't work (as always). I have an unresolved issue with Wireless networking - I have a Netgear MA401 PCMICA wireless LAN adaptor & I can't figure out if the problem is PCMCIA or Wireless in general. I have had this working just once - when I inserted the PCMCIA card during the boot sequence.

I'm very impressed. I tried many different things to try to get my HP PSC 1210 to work, and eventually I reverted to the 2.4 kernel that is included in Mandrake 10ce. This method you describe here works - except that you have to re-boot the printer. As I say - I'm impressed. It would never occur to me to tell printerdrake that the printer was not a multifunction printer when it in fact is. The only thing I note - on boot the module usblp (or something similar to that) still tries to be loaded and it still reports an error. Maybe this is the cause of the need to reboot ? Can I somehow blaclist this module ?

I have the same problem exactly with the HP PSC 1210 and kernel 2.6.3. You don't have to roll back to 9.2 - all you need to do is use the 2.4 kernel. However, regarding the USB bug in kernel 2.6.3 - doesn't hotplug have a "blacklist" of modules - and can that be used here ?