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well, i think i klicked kde/gnome (don't remember) but i would have loved :woops: another option, one saying: several smaller desktop environments. because i really can tell, if - apart from kde - i use primary xfce4, blackbox, fluxbox, icewm, twm or windowmaker. it constanlty changes, depending on my mood and willingness to tweak on some de's. ;)

don't ask me. lilo does some strange things from time to time, e.g. killing my bootsplash-package once. one "urpmi bootsplash" repaired all. :)

hi mizterbob and welcome.

did you try to get net access without your firewall enabled? have you enabled net access (as root) for the different users? (can be done via mandrake control center, networking section.)

also take a look at streeters marvelous guide: http://web.onetel.net.uk/~showerail/simple_net_setup.html

this guide usually does the trick.

if you still have problems, we will be here to help you through the muddy waters. :)

good luck

hi BlanK and welcome aboard.

I manage to boot from the CD-ROM but after checking for USB devices it gives me an error

have you any usb-devices plugged in during installation? if yes, try to install without any usb-devices plugged in. if that fails, it could be that you have a bad burn. but, before you restart burning, give us all available data of your hardware (harddisk, network devices, graphics card) you can get your hands on. maybe there is some hardware conflict, too. I don't think it comes from the cd-rom, because you can boot from it.

good luck

it was displayed in the scanner box

do you have a scanner plugged into your box alongside the modem at usb, too?

there are some errors show up during installing, but i don't think that are big problems

do you remember some of the error messages? maybe there was one really major error and knowing something about that would surely help. have you tried some other cd's? maybe you have a bad burn or bad download.

another difference between OE and CE is that OE supports more ADSL-modems and networking cards. but the whole network stuff missing in CE can be downloaded some two or three months later. so, nothing really important... :)

hmmm... i am not an networking expert but:

post the contents of your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file, please.

then type "route" and "ifconfig" in the console and post the output here, too. make sure that the firewall is disabled.

what networking-card(s) do you use (info can be seen in mcc/harddrake), how is your system exactly set up?

what is the default setting of your router (how many Mbps)?

maybe not the solution, but a start. B)

p.s: do you experience this with other web-browsers, too or only with one?

try sporadically with a shorter cable (less than 2 meters), if you can. the longer the cable, the slower the connection can be.

maybe this is the only reason why your connection is that slow. if not... we will try to find out why. :)

i do remember that there were some other topics in here covering wine. use the search-tool, maybe you find a solution in one of the previous posts. ;)

just a simple question to begin with (first idea that came into my mind):

how long is the cable from your modem to the network-plugger?

i also recommend using icewm and kicking kde and gnome. i also suggest that you make an individual package selection, installing only the minimum stuff required to run the system (thus freeing space for installation) and add the other packages you need later on, using the mandrake control center. for webbrowsing, you should remove mozilla, galeon et all and install a lightweight webbrowser from web. firefox is fast and not too big, if you want a high end browser, but there are many smaller ones. just search them on the web and you will find lots of them (ishzilla, dillo, lynx,...) e.g. here

http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/sw_list.php?id_kategory=7

lynx is a special fun, as it is a text-based browser, thus incredibly fast. it is already included in your install-disks and can be run from the console. :)

...if you have loaded the system previously and the disks worked...

well, it can also be that the cd's were in the sun or got scratched or wet or there might be big fingerprints on them. sure, then they will stop working right and many people forget that all the time. ;)

I use Abiword, i find it much nicer than OOo. I didnt use OOo much at all

i gave abiword a try, but if i want to write scientific texts, then abiword fails to do the job, so i have to use, big, bulky Oo.

did you update your kernel from source or via the mandrake-mirrors?

i would recommend to reinstall bootsplash via urpmi first (urpmi bootsplash), because it can be that the bootsplash-linking was overwritten/(deleted) during the kernel update.

hi. :)

- is your ethernetcard automatically started at boot? i hope so, but check this.

- does the same thing happen, when you disable the firewall?

- are the correct permissions set for the users in mcc? (internet-access managing)

check these. if this doesn't help, please take a look here: http://web.onetel.net.uk/~showerail/simple_net_setup.html

if everything fails, give us more info on your config-files.

good luck

try the following:

log in as root, then run "XFdrake" and set up your display-mode. it seems as if your gui got disabled somehow. then reboot, maybe it works.

hi ho and welcome. :)

well, there were several soundblaster topics on this board. you can find perhaps the right one, using the search function (at the top-right side of the page).

anyway, first thing i would recommend is: look at your sound selection (e.g. via kcontrol-center), maybe you have your hardware selection set to auto-detection (ALSA, OSS,..) and it could be that it doesn't work properly ( i know of several such cases). try ALSA for your soundcard first, then the other if ALSA won't work. if that and the search in the forums don't help, then tell us and we will watch closer at your problem.

good luck!

hi.

i use an amd duron 750 mhz with 330 mb ram and mandy is running very fast and stable on it. :)

okay, how did i get to mandrake?

it all began some time ago when in a chat, a friend of mine, an administrator told me that if i have so many problems with viruses and bugs in windows, i should switch to mac or linux. okay, i use mac os9 at work and i don't like it. it hangs up, is slow and the one-button mouse is nothing for me. so i gave linux a chance. i was told that suse should be okay for newbs. so i went to a newspaper-stand and bought an easy-linux magazine, shipping suse8.1 along. i thought ... hm... not bad, but somehow unfamiliar. then came suse8.2 and i bought it together with some friends, they continue using suse, but i wasn't completely happy.

i began to check out distrowatch. i spend way too many hours there and downloaded like hell. many cd's burned, some broken of course. in the end i had a big package that i gave a thorough testing.

-redhat 9 (didn't like my hd much),

-fedoracore 2 (boy, slow and buggy at that time),

-yoper v2 (fast like hell, but ... where is the office suite?),

-arklinux (didn't even recognize my other partitions!),

-lba-linux (buggy, bad fedora-clone),

-knoppix (only as rescue-cd used),

-suse 9.1live (didn't lure me back to suse),

-gentoo 2004.1 (installation and administration/configuration was imho a mess),

-conectiva 10 (why didn't they write, there is only spanisch, englisch and portugese language available? and their servers were damn slow) and

-mandrake 10.

of all these distros, mandrake became my favorit although adapting to it was at first a love-hate relationship (because things were so different in suse and redhat). but after a month or so, i knew halfway, how things worked in mandrake. since then, i didn't expereience any dramatic problems that couldn't be solved somehow. my impression is: mdk10 feels responsive, is very usable for my everyday-work and i think that it will stay on my box for a long time. (at least i hope so) :)

hmmm. maybe unmount is only possible for root on your system.

anyway, which cd-rom drive do you have? maybe some info on that one helps to clear the matter... :)

in order to get access to kde try the folllowing: at prompt, log in as root, then type in "XFdrake" and set up your video modes. then exit and reboot, now, you should be able to log in into kde again.

with the cd-rom. you say, you ejected it. okay, but did you mount/unmount them properly afterwards?

hmmm. try to set up easyurpmi-mirrors and try updating again. i am almost sure that one of your rpm-files is the cause.

Yes we help people here but if thats all then MUB is loosing its community feel....

well, honestly, i don't think that MUB will loose its communitiy feel because of this (look at all those off-topic-fun-discussions).

you have to keep in mind that people come and go to, switch distros, head back to windows/apple/..., get annoyed from boards etc. but it is simply that i never, NEVER experieced someone in a linux-discussion forum, only registering because he/she/it wants to complain.

of course, everyone has the right to complain, but you usually complain after even with the help of others you don't get anything done. if you hack on the system for a whole months and don't manage to get your network or other stuff working, then you have all the right to say "this distro is shit and you are a bunch of idiots", but only then.... maybe.

i remember that i had lots of problems with my SUSE distros (8.1 and 8.2) and with ark-linux. but did i complain? no. i simply took other distros, if the fault was the distro being buggy. in terms of networking, the problem was by the manufacturer of my adsl modem, so i could have blamed him (and i did, but he didn't react :D). so, if i want to complain, i have to take a look first if the problems caused here are problems caused by me, by some hardware vendors of if it is the distro's fault.

sure, that mandrake doesn't listen to their users (yoper is the complete opposite ;)) is bad, but i think that he knew that before, because this has not changed over night.

i would have apreciated, if he simply would have asked for help instead of blaming someone who doesn't listen anyway.