JonEberger

for the first time ever the other day i burned a linux iso to disc at full burner speed and it turned out right. i would say that is more of a rarity than the norm. good discs, good images, slow burn. that's where i'd look first. if your hardware works well, then you should be set.

if i'm just throwing something together, i use mozilla's composer or (hehe *ashamed*) sometimes even oo and save as html. if i'm trying to exercise any control whatsoever i use quanta. i'm a kate user for programming, but quanta does what a good editor should do. it saves time and does the same thing you'd do in the bare-bones interface.

i've yet to give nvu a shot. i might do that tonight.

i think that's awesome. it would,'t surprise me to find out that microsoft can't get away from linux in alot of other ways as well.

i recently had to spend some time using windows, and that reinforced why i love my linux.

hi ian. thanks. i live on their wiki pages. :-)

i believe this nic happens to be the atheros chipset. has anyone had any success with madwifi?

here's my ifcfg-wlan0

ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
DEVICE=wlan0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ESSID="athensberger"
CHANNEL="11"
MODE=Managed
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=wireless
RATE=Auto

so i've got ndiswrapper working well...pretty well.

i've got a wg111 usb wireless nic connected to my desktop pc. i've got it set (in ifcfg-wlan0) to come on at boot (ONBOOT=yes) and to pull ip as well from my wireless router. it will stay up for days on end. but occasionally it drops connection. i'm not sure why. sometimes it never pulls the ip address onboot. executing the following code

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 channel xx
iwconfig wlan0 essid ___________
ifup wlan0

it may or may not pull a connection. what i've noticed is that with a program like gaim running, my connection stays alive longer. i doubt it's ndiswrapper. what i would imagine is that it is the settings i'm giving it. i've had this issue with a d-link wireless pcmcia nic on two laptops as well.

any ideas? it's my primary connection and so it would be nice to figure out.

well...that is the best reason to use it. just to get used to it if it will become mandriva's package management system.

i'm with ian. what version of ndiswrapper? i've not tried it on 2006 yet. so you say it gets past the compile. what drivers are you using? the ones off the cd's or the ones off the website? that's actually made a difference for me before (plus in the ndis.... wiki they advise for the web drivers).

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=24423

is another place on this board to look.

i used to dual-boot just to play games. i don't any games anymore, but i keep windows on....not really sure why.

http://www.linux-laptop.net/palmtops.html

there's a link on here to the ipaq. i don't know if this is helpful, but perhaps it might be. there are obviously people who have it running.

why would i want to use it as opposed to urpmi? forgive my ignorance.

i'm all in on the stuff is getting cheaper part.

we've got a 1996 ibm thinkpad 600 that is tough as nails. i don't know that a single thing is wrong with it. it even looks nice. the only bad thing about it is that it's 9-year old battery has zero-life left in it. my wife's 2004 laptop already has had power-supply issues and the graphics card has intermittent blackouts (no kidding! that dell doesn't know how to fix and didn't have the tech-support to fix it).

we also have two friends who own toshibas and experience PAIN from them. they take their laptops to another friend who does this work. he says NEVER buy a toshiba laptop. they do more ordering of replacement parts from them than anyone else.

during the mandriva install there are a couple options for hard disk partitioning. i believe (this is how it used to be i think) you can choose a "simple" partitioning which is one big partition labeled '/'. it sounds like you chose the "with /usr" option. it will partition the drive into three smaller partitions (hda1,swap, hda2 probably depending on what else is on the drive): '/', swap and '/usr'. if you choose the 'server' partitioning you could potentially get alot of partitions. it also sounds like you let the installer auto-allocate the partition sizes. this isn't a bad move if you have plenty of drive space. if you're in a pinch and you KNOW that you're not going to fill up the /usr or / partition you can always pick a smaller size during the install process.

the size of your swap partition is also something that's debatable. my home desktop rarely ever hits swap. but i have plenty of ram. if you have less ram (say probably 192 MB or less these days) you're going to hit swap more and more. i've heard some people say pick 1.5 times your ram amount for your swap. but who knows these days. some people could probably get away without much at all (maybe any). but on an older machine, you will probably not be so fortunate.

anyone correct me on this stuff. i'm a constant learner myself.

you wanna go with the i586. best i know, the only x86-64 chips are AMD. since you have an intel you're set.

i'm sorry to hear you're having this much trouble. i've heard of whole spindles of blank cd-r's being bad....but i think it's rare. i guess you can always buy the cd's somewhere and have them sent to you. if you're looking to check the image isos, i found a wonderful program in windows called winmd5sum (or somethng like that). it worked great and even error checks for me.

good luck! most people would've given up already. your determination says alot about you.

i don't know about the powerpack discs, but typically the download cd's have the first cd which is mandatory for install and the second and third cd's carry extra functionality and more apps. perhaps this is the same for the powerpack discs.

jboy is completely right. i've done it several times myself. the only hangup i've ever had was that some distributions will let you touch those other users while others won't unless you have root privlieges. fedora plays well with mandrake in case you want to know.

so on mandrake 10.1, we had to use the vesa driver on my wife's card (geforce fx) to get the drivers. perhaps you might have to set your driver to something fairly rudimentary to get things to work.

most of the themework that i want is actually distro-neutral. i had rather have some simply plain looks that are clean and manageable. hence i voted that there was enough artwork.

i have to admit, the newer celerons don't seem so bad.

thunderbird rocks.

silly question...is there a sunbird rpm that you can urpmi and get? i know firefox and thunderbird are always mozilla-______. maybe there is a mozilla-sunbird. at least mandriva might be able to resolve some package dependency for you.

so if i'm on a machine that i have no admin privileges to and don't mind losing the settings i've made, deleting the .mozilla folder (although uncouth and brute) has fixed problems on university suns for me before with mozilla.