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Greetings again. I have found what may not be a solution, but is a cute work-a-round. I created an iso of the xp cd with mkisofs -o xpcrap.iso -D /path/to/iso evidently linux generally can only see so many layers deep on a data cd of this type. The path to the necessary files in /I386/asms etc etc was way too deep for it to see it, so I made an iso with the -D tag, telling it to ignore everything and just copy the damn thing. Then I told vmware to use an iso instead of a device for booting. I figure I'll just change it back to /dev/cdrom whatever when I get xp installed. Can you believe that I'm blowing my weekend doing this just so that I can install mathcad 12 on my box without having to dualboot or anything cheesy like that. I'm an engineering student (obviously not computer engineering) and I need this to work so that I can do my homework. Does this make me a nerd? Cheers, it's beer time! Ken

Greetings all I am an avid mandrake user. I am now (just recently) using the latest greatest 10.1, with the 2.6.8 mdk kernel. Heres the beef...... I just installed vmware workstation 4.5.2 or whatever is going around with the rpm. It installed ok, and the kernel seemed to swallow all that it did. I can get the workstation up and running strong, and can get it to boot off of my win XP pro cd, which goes through the hassles of trying to install. Half way through the xp installation I get this error from XP: System Setup log - (C:/WINDOWS/setuperr.log) Error: Installation Failed: D:/I386/asms. Error Message: Incorrect function. *** Fatal Error: One of the components that windows needs to continue setup could not be installed.] Incorrect function. *** This is a known copy of xp (just put it on my wifes windoz box) so the problem isnt there. Also, Ive gone through the usual frustration-tactics of the casual user: Ive reinstalled mandrake, and then vmware, and then windoz three times, getting identical results. (someone told me once that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over hoping each time to mysteriously get different results.) I have used an older version of vmware on my older mandrake installation (9.2) and it worked fine, also, Ive had some experience with this os-vmware-xp setup. I can't figure out what the heck is going on, can someone please help me? As usual, any help will get you your choice of any two of my kids, and any one of the cars from around my block. Cheers Ken

Greetings, Just to follow up, I have put 9.2 back on my box, as no 2.6.x kernel support for this chipset. All of the available drivers from the corporate website are for 2.4.x and earlier. I believe this to be the problem, but have no actual proof other that the fact that otherwise it works. Thanks, though! I appreciate your help, and if anyone comes up with a better solutionplease write Ken

OK I hashed out the namserver 192.168.0.1 portion of the /etc/resolv.conf and the same issue seems to be happening . I can't seem to get 90%of web pages to load. Whats wierd is that certain ones will load without any hassle at all. Example: When I go to load www.msn.com (I wouldnt normally, but hey) the progress bar for the page loading zips accross like it was loading fast, but then nothing comes up. and it get stuck on "retrieving 39.1k from http://www.msn.com (27 k/s)" While I just watched the progress bar shoot accross, whats the posssibility that it isnt a networking thing at all, maybe its just the way my box is trying to read the pages? Wierd. Just wierd. Ken

OK, kwrite /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 gives us this : DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes Whereas /etc/resolv.conf gave us this: search domain.actdsltmp nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver 205.171.x.x I added the x's it was some other number kwrite /etc/sysconfig/network gave us: NETWORKING=yes I added iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING -i eth0 -j loc_dnat to the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local and did ifup eth0 Determining IP information for eth0... done Last but not least, I did ping 192.168.0.1 which gave us........ PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.42 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.962 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.961 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.961 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.969 ms Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=0.866 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=0.955 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=0.948 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=0.956 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=255 time=0.941 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=255 time=0.949 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=12 ttl=255 time=0.965 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=13 ttl=255 time=0.958 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=14 ttl=255 time=0.943 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=15 ttl=255 time=1.00 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=255 time=0.958 ms ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 3105, errno = 0 ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 3110, errno = 0 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=17 ttl=255 time=0.970 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=18 ttl=255 time=0.936 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=255 time=0.947 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=20 ttl=255 time=0.952 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=21 ttl=255 time=0.952 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=22 ttl=255 time=0.946 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=23 ttl=255 time=0.950 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=24 ttl=255 time=0.946 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=25 ttl=255 time=0.955 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=26 ttl=255 time=0.943 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=27 ttl=255 time=0.960 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=28 ttl=255 time=0.946 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=29 ttl=255 time=0.960 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=30 ttl=255 time=0.946 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=31 ttl=255 time=0.954 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=32 ttl=255 time=0.962 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=33 ttl=255 time=0.940 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=34 ttl=255 time=0.944 ms and seems to be heading on to infinity. Does any of this help find the problem, or am I just crazy. I can access the mandrake users page, but the link to simple networking was timed out over and over, finally had to get it from out xp machine. Why does this page "work" and google wont? I wish I knew these things! Ken

OK I tried /etc/resolv.conf, and I didn't have permissions, so I su'd to root, and still no permissions, so I changed them so I could read it. This is what they had to say.... /etc/resolv.conf: line 1: search: command not found /etc/resolv.conf: line 2: nameserver: command not found /etc/resolv.conf: line 3: nameserver: command not found Any thoughts on this output? Also, since I reinstalled mdk 10 certain sites work ok, but a little slow(I am using it now), while still huge commercial sites time out (www.cnn.com, www.msn.com). Wierd.

Thanks! I'm in the midst of trying to use the resolve function. Since I last posted (yesterday) I tried another experiment. I installed MDK 9.0, then a fresh install of 9.2. Both 9.0 and 9.2 were able to read/use internet just fine! However when I upgraded the 9.2 to 10 it stopped working again. The only thing I can guess is that maybe its a kernel issue, or a module issue? So I reinstalled 9.2 and of course it works fine out of the box. The older mdk can read the internet off of this motherboard. Have there been big changes to the via modules since the update to 2.6.x or am I looking up the wrong tree? Anyway, I'll reinstall 10, and run /etc/resolv.conf , and then take a look at simple network setup. Any ideas about the chipset/kernel maybe? Ken

Greeting all ! Ive come to you for some help. I know, I know. "This guy must have all the answers". But clearly after today I am convinced i have none of the answers. I can't get netwoked, darnet. I have a linux box, MDK 10, a7v8x-x MB, Nforce 8x agp, xp2500, 512 corsair, yada yada. I recently moved, and in moving had to change internet provider from charter cable (sucked), to qwest dsl(don't know yet). I have two computers, an XP (this one), and my linux box (that one.). This one (winXp) is reading the network just fine, and I am using the internet. The Linux box cannot get to the internet. More specifically... MCC gives me a look at my NIC, and is reading the connection just fine. Through konqueror I can view my dsl actiontech modem (192.168.0.1) and I can read it lightening fast. So one would logically <i>assume</i> that I was netwoked. I have tried swapping cables, and even hooked up a router to see if the connection of stable . Everything seems to be fine, but when (on the linux machine) I try to see anything it times out. Occasionally I can get the text of a page to load, but it takes several minutes, and all other facits of the page time out. I hope this is making sense. To recap then... Ive got a known-to-be-working lan connection plugged into a perhaps-known-to-be-working linux box, and reqests to the internet timeout, or load just a trickle of information and then give up. What the heck? Is there some setting somewhere for the speed? Ive tried a second nic card in the linux box, and again, that card was read, the module worked, and I was able to see the dsl modem and internet just trickled in, if at all. So its not the onboard lan, or pci bus, the modem, the cables, the connection, or the sevice. All of these things seem to be working. I just can't seem to get to the internet at all(other that a sprinkle of info). Arrrggghhh! Now, I know your thinking "i don't wanna touch this, this looks awful." But I could really use your help! Im at my 6 hours-on-the-same-problem point and getting nowhere. Thanks to all who take a look at this! Ken

greetings, Got a good question........ I'm trying to get my ms sidewinder to work on my mdk10 box. Ive got an alfadata gameport adapter from radio-shack. I have tried to modprobe sidewinder, hid, gameport, and joydev. lsmod gives me this, [root@localhost kenny]# lsmod Module Size Used by sidewinder 12480 0 sg 38044 0 sr_mod 17060 0 agpgart 31016 0 nvidia 2068232 12 lp 12200 0 snd-seq-oss 31232 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq 51024 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss 51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17952 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 32776 0 snd-ac97-codec 58148 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm 93156 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-intel8x0 snd-timer 24484 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm gameport 4480 2 sidewinder,snd-intel8x0 snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-rawmidi 23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd 52484 12 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-intel8x0,snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device soundcore 9248 1 snd af_packet 20520 2 ide-floppy 18752 0 ide-tape 34864 0 ide-cd 40548 0 cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd floppy 59444 0 3c59x 39144 0 forcedeth 14304 0 ohci1394 33956 0 ieee1394 287856 1 ohci1394 tsdev 7168 0 usbmouse 5216 0 joydev 10240 0 evdev 9504 0 supermount 37876 1 ppa 12296 0 parport_pc 32832 1 imm 12360 0 scsi_mod 114744 4 sg,sr_mod,ppa,imm parport 38952 4 lp,ppa,parport_pc,imm hid 53312 0 ehci-hcd 24196 0 ohci-hcd 18692 0 usbcore 99132 6 usbmouse,hid,ehci-hcd,ohci-hcd rtc 11576 0 ext3 110376 3 jbd 54328 1 ext3 notice that gameport shows the side winder? How the heck do I get this to work!?! Ive been trying to get this to control rune, sof, snes9x etc.. No luck so far ..... harddrake show the device as usb unkown. mmm any thoughts would be helpful! ken

Alright, I got it. It's the newer NVidia~.run with the same instructions. Dang, I'm stupid. BTW, incase anyone else hasnt done it, the newer nvidia driver for 2.6.x kernel support is sweet. Unreal is unreal. Ken

ok , Ive read the install for nvidia module, and have had success with it in 9.1/9.2. But now I'm installing 10mdk, and have run into a horrible and confusing problem with no real answer. Help! Ive urpmi'd kernel-source, binutils, and gcc. su, init 3, NVIDIA-~.run, and when it goes to compile the kernel module, I get this. "The kernel header file '/lib/modules/2.6.3-4mdk/build/include/linux/modversions.h' does not exits. The most likely readon for this is that the kernel header files in '/lib/modules/2.6.3-4mdk/build/include' have not been configured." What the? How do I? Hey, whats going on here? Have you (anyone) run into this same problem? Grrrrrr. Ive read the nvidia page on linuxz download/install, which matches (more or less) the howto on mandrakeusers, and that not the way things are going. I'm very confused. Ken

Greetings, I'm trying to view the web via my emacs, with w3 installed. When I Alt-x w3-tab I get an auto completion of about a hundred commands. I have some success saving webpages off the net to a folder as html files. What I want to be able to do is to view them with wmacs. How do I do it? I was able to get an html page loaded into emacs, but it read it as a text html file. I don't want to edit html, just see it. .emacs reads like this: (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it! ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. '(auto-compression-mode t nil (jka-compr)) '(case-fold-search t) '(current-language-environment "Latin-1") '(default-input-method "latin-1-prefix") '(global-font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock)) '(pc-select-meta-moves-sexps t) '(pc-select-selection-keys-only t) '(pc-selection-mode t t) '(save-place t nil (saveplace)) '(show-paren-mode t nil (paren)) '(transient-mark-mode t)) (setq load-path (cons "/usr/local/w3-4.Opre.47/" load-path)) (autoload 'w3-preview-this-buffer "w3" "WWW Previewer" t) (autoload 'w3-follow-url-at-point "w3" "Find document at pt" t) (autoload 'w3 "w3" "WWW Browser" t) (autoload 'w3-open-local "w3" "Open local file for WWW browsing" t) (autoload 'w3-fetch "w3" "Open remote file for WWW browsing" t) (autoload 'w3-use-hotlist "w3" "Use shortcuts to view WWW docs" t) (autoload 'gopher-dispatch-object "gopher" "Fetch gopher dir" t) (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it! ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ) I think it's all there, any hints? Ive read the fm, googled, and begged for help from my local user group, and have found no actual instructions for loading a page to view it. AGGGHHH! Thanks for your support!

I know this may not be a linux specific question, but how does one create a forum like this one? Is this php or what? Ive seem some service supported forums similar to this ( http://astoria.mung.net). Seems very similar in nature to this one. Where would I begin with making one? Any ideas? Someone around heres gotta know this! Help!

I love my blackbox, with the bbconf tool for easy configuration This seems to run smoother than anything else Ive tried. I like not using the gnome or kde interface, but having them installed so I can use all the apps. Maybe this only apears to run better. Cheers

I installed the one from the real media site, works awesome. Funny thing about kde, I found that in the new kde interacted with many non-kde sound apps funny. I went into konqueror and kde configs, and turned off all sorts of preview soundfile options that were turned on by default. This probably wont help, but I tried. Ken