SoulSe

BTW Soulse: your PnP experioence was that with mandriva?

Well I've never used that card before and I haven't used Mandriva for ages, but I'm guessing that it would work as per that link I found.

For the cards I have worked with in helping friends (specifically the famous red Vodafone card), they show up in Mandriva as generic PCMCIA modems, which you can then set to dial *99# (or whatever string your network requires) from a client such as wvdial.

Have yo configured third-party sources for urpmi? Try visiting our Easy-Urpmi page and configuring your package manager, perhaps once that has happened the required packages will be available.

Just to confirm: does the connection stay stable in Windows and only drops in Linux? Or does it drop in Windows too?

How did you install Compiz?

You could also try creating another user and trying to use Compiz as that user - this will tell us whether the problem is with Compiz as a whole or just with your specific user account.

Instead of trying to install a downloaded rpm package you should be using urpmi, Mandriva's inherint package manager, to install your program.

I would recommend that you first visit our Easy-Urpmi page to properly configure your package manager.

Once that is done you could install tightvnc-server from the MCC software manager. Or try doing:

# urpmi  tightvnc-server

As has been pointed out to you elsewhere, just saying "It's been solved." is not very good etiquette. Other people may be having the same problem as you, and for their sake please include how you managed to solve it.

Possibly, but if someone had made it work since then I'm sure that a search would reveal something. I guess the best way to find out is to get hold of the game from a friend or someone and try it out.

Even if he did receive what he paid for, it is still pretty pathetic to not even clearly label discs or provide clear instructions.

I DO think it is fair to discuss Mandriva's marketing again - because they are clearly not getting the basics right.

Perhaps you could try switching display drivers (assuming there are more than one compatible with your card, which is pretty much always the case).

It would also be interesting to get a Live CD distribution, like PCLOS, that uses KDE as its default and see if the same problem is experienced when booted into the CD environment...

Sometimes it is possible to get into sites like this by spoofing IE. That means setting your browser's identification string to match Internet Explorer. For some banking sites, this is enough.

I'm lucky in that my bank fully supports Firefox and recommends its use as a more secure browser

To have it automatically mount when Linux loads you will have to add it to your fstab file. This file is at /etc/fstab

I'm guessing you would have to add something like this:

/dev/hdb1   /mnt/windows/   ntfs   noatime   0 0

If any one knows of a better (or more correct) fstab entry for an NTFS partition, please post.

By the way, if you want to go full Linux then you'll obviously want to convert that partition to something like ext3 or reiserfs that is more friendly to Linux. For a media partition vfat is not a bad option because it can be both read and written by Windows and Linux. But if you're getting rid of Windows completely then go for a real file-system ;)

That does sound some very poor delivery from Mandriva. It is possible, of course, that the box you received was a dud or not packaged correctly. As arctic said, send it back and demand a refund. If the product itself is really that poor then I don't blame you for wanting to look elsewhere.

This is very strange. Are you sure you installed with everything on defaults?

Of course, you could just go to GNOME, but that isn't really solving the problem as such, just ignoring it :P

It is possible to mount NTFS partitions in Linux, but you will not be able to write to it, only read files, unless you are using experimental drivers such as ntfs-3g (I'm not sure what Mandriva 2007 provides by default).

The best would probably be to try and mount it from a terminal. So open up a terminal and do this (the stuff in square brackets are comments):

$ su
Password: [this is your root password]
# cd /mnt/
# mkdir windows
# mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows/

This should mount the NTFS drive to /mnt/windows/ If it does not, then we need to make sure the NTFS kernel module is running. Do:

# modprobe ntfs

If it is not loaded, let us know.

Have you tried booting from the cover disc you are using? Didn't the magazine you got it with include instructions as to how to install the distribution they were providing?

I am assuming that when you say you are left with a folder called 'Linux' on your hard drive that this is inside of your Windows installation? What did you do before that directory appeared?

It is possible that the entire contents of that folder needs to be burnt to DVD, but there should be some, possibly hidden, files in the Linux directory allowing for it to be booted.

Sometimes it helps to Google ;)

 

 

WOW, thats amazing, i use dogpile as my main search engine and it found WAY too much on linux and nothing on using the card w/ linux.

 

thanks

My pleasure :)

Let us know how it turns out...

I can't help you with your card, but if you're looking for a new one I'd recommend an Nvidia. Their driver is just simply better than ATI's.

Visit the Nvidia site and checkout which cards are supported by their Linux driver - then build your shopping list from there.

You can also choose not to download full hdlist files, which saves tons of space. The smaller versions have the package names, but without descriptions. Most people do not need the description and a lot of space can be saved by excluding them.

The way you do this is to add a source using synthesis.hdlist.cz instead of the standard hdlist.cz file.

For example, in a main repository, the hdlist.cz file is around 11733KB while the synthesis.hdlist.cz is only 80!

This is also useful for people on dialup or other poor Internet connections, as the update time for urpmi is also minimised as smaller downloads are required.

From the MCC you can resize partitions without losing data, but I would still recommend that you make backups. It is fairly fool-proof, but you never know ;)

Well I can confirm that wireless is still a little screwy in Vista. We've just gone through a couple of new Vista laptops for review and they all seem to give similar wireless glitches to what XP did.

A lot of them were Acers though, which might've been the real problem

I think it'd have to be more, like pulling your hostname from your machine too. That way, if your internet connection IP changes, you've got two entries for your hostname, that can effectively be counted as one machine install, without causing duplicate entries.

Perhaps I'm thinking about this too much, and should just move on :P

Probably ;)

Yup, b0rked link.

It just depends which OEM card Verizon is providing. Have you asked them if it is Linux compatible? My service provider has a whole page on how to set up your mobile data card with Linux, most of them are compatible as normal PCMCIA modems.

Also remember that you can connect using a mobile phone with Bluetooth, so the cards aren't always necessary.

I tried that at first - but it doesn't download the deps. After I DL it and ask i to install, it pops up with "unable to access hdlist file of "main", medium ignored" If I hit OK then it tells me some requested packages cannot be installed.

Visit our Easy-Urpmi page and configure your repositories before using urpmi to install.

Urpmi will solve dependencies if it has access to the required packages, so don't bother doing it any other way. Get your repositories right and all will be well (I hope :P )

As tyme has said - Easy-Urpmi will set up your sources enabling you to download more packages than are available from the standard repositories, including your CDs.

This means that Mandriva will just be storing a bunch of text, which doesn't take up much space at all. Not worth worrying about.

If you run a 'boring box' however, you might not even need any of those extra packages. If all you do is basic productivity / Internet stuff then you probably already have everything you need. Still, it is nice to have access to the full list of stuff for incase ;)