sergei

Well, I wouldn't call that "safe" - the guys are working hard and not all of the dependent packages may be available at every given moment of time. I experienced a few things broke (like xmms sound system in amarok, for instance). But I am adventurous (on my spare non-production PC) so can live with a risk of smth breaking at the expense of the bleeding edge experience ;-)

OK, just got a response from kde team - this is a bug in russian locale of kde. Now fixed.

Hi, guys, I started to experience strange behaviour of the file browser in KDE3.4. Konqueror in file browing mode is working fine, but in the window that appears when a KDE program asks for a file choice (e.g. chose file for attachment in Kmail or Open File in Kate) in the appearing pop-up window I see only directories but not individual files. When in the Choice panel I start typing the name of the file I know to exist in this directory, grey font prompts me for it, so somehow this window does know about the files. Maybe I have changed some settings somewhere but I cannot find now how to cure that. Maybe it's a kde bug. It seems this pop-up window is QFile::open module, but I maybe wrong. Any ideas, please?

Agaaa, finally I know how the profiles work, thanks a lot! This seems to be much involved solution to what I've been looking for. Do you know if this may help for another problem: setting local variables like proxy server, smtp server etc.? By now I am resolving this by running a small script at the login time which sniffs the network and basing on arp output runs and changes (or just swap links) config files like .profile, kmailrc, prefs.js etc. I see the profiles you mention work for boot. Can it be propagated to user-level too? Can, for instance, /etc/netprofile/profiles/home/files/ contain /home/sergei/.profile with correspondingly set variables PRINTER, CUPS_SERVER etc? Is the original /home/sergei/.profile overwritten with /etc/netprofile/profiles/home/files/home/sergei/.profile ? Sorry, to bother you with these questions, but I couldn't find any explanations how to work with profiles... A reference would do. Thanks again!

Hi, I usually use my laptop in two environments: work, where I am connected to the net through wired eth0; and home where I use onboard wireless NIC configured as eth1. At boot time at home, configuration of eth0 passes rather quickly, perhaps because no beat is detected at eth0 and the net is bound to eth1. But when I boot at the office, eth0 is also quickly configured, but it takes about 1 minute for eth1 to time out. Worse even, sometimes it picks up a distant signal from some other department where I do not have access, takes over eth0 settings and I finish with completely non-working network configuration. Is there any way to set priorities on NIC? Say, do not attempt to configure eth1 if eth0 is up and running? Or, at least, to reduce time to set up the wireless eth1? Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks! PS. System: Mandriva 2005LE [moved to Networking by arctic]

Dear Anna, Eager to read your howto, but no ref seems to be working Directly accessing it from http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showforum=22 I am getting an error: You do not have permission to view this topic If my post appears here, this may mean I am a regitered user and mklivecd is a secret topic? B)