riseringseeker

I put the first URL through the w3c validator and it showed 183 errors, though since the type was not declared there is a disclaimer saying that the validator would likely fail for lots of trivial reasons. I cannot connect to the http://www.bigpond.net.au at all, says it cannot find the server. You sure it has the "www" in front? Do you see it when you click the link you provided?

It sure was anything but a pain for me! I have it setup here at home using a Belkin router, and my laptop uses a linksys pcmcia insertable card. When I set it up, IIRC, it just told me that wpa-supplicant was needed, and asked if I wanted to install it. Clicked yes, and I was off to the races. I use the laptop all over (literally) and need wpa capability elsewhere from time to time. I would remember if it was a major PITA to setup/install. What kind of problems did you see? Agreed, but sometimes Mandy "wizards" like to keep control over some things, and will overwrite manually made changes - something to keep in mind if things don't stay the way you configured them. I believe I just used the "wizards" to do almost all of my setup. The only thing I had to do with the CLI, was edit the modprobe.preload to load ndiswrapper when needed (i.e. put the card in when the `puter was already running)

I agree that the way they have it set up, the "uninstall" selection is superfluous. Actually though, I rather like having the listing of what's installed as well as what's available in one place - but then why have a mostly duplicate thing such as the "uninstall"? If this is the way they want to do it, there are a few things that would make it nicer to use - such as an "expand all" so you can see what is in all groups wthout having to click on each one (and it's sub-listing); make the "all updates" the default selection, or allow me to choose what my default display is. I also miss having the "select all", or if it is there, I have not found it. Not sure what you are saying here, I tend to use urpmi for installing new programs as much as MCC, use MCC mostly for doing updates, and have not noticed a problem, but then again, I may not know what I am looking for. The grouping do not seem to make much sense, and I have a hard time believing some of the dependency listings as well. Click on uninstall openssh as an example, and look at the other packages that "must be removed". What do most of these have to do with openssh??? Overall, having now run 2007 for most of a month, I am not as pleased with it as I was with 2006 and 2005LE.

Point the Bigpond web authors here? :D You might want to put in that URL just for fun to see how many errors it returns. I hate that so any places make little or no effort to write decent html. BTW, what is the URL? (Just want to look myself, without a password/account, can't go beyond that anyway.)

Spalla, Did anything I gave you help at all? Is it now working, whether or not what I gave you was worthwhile reading?

I must say, that was a little scary! I went to MCC->hardware->Setup Graphical Server and the first thing it said was that my display was not setup correctly, and I needed to install 915resolution. I went ahead and let it do so, then unchecked translucency and tried to reboot. It would only go to a prompt, not shut down. No problem, I thought and logged in, su'd to root and "shutdown -r now", went through the shutdown and reboot, but again ended up giving me a terminal login prompt. Ok, "startx", lots of error messages, and back to a prompt. :unsure: OK, su to root again, and type MCC. Change the resolution, and lo and behold had my X back, until the next boot. OK, so, do the same as above again, and this time on reboot go to interactive mode, and stop 915resolution from loading. That did it! Went to MCC->System->Services and unchecked start 915resolution at boot, the went to Software->Remove Software, and took 915resolution out. Ended current session and logged back in, still had X, rebooted entirely and X still comes up, Bottom line, don't know that I changed anything other than lowering my resolution to the install/default setting (had upped it some time back), translucency is still enabled, but now flash works in konqueror just fine. Thanks for the tip. Word to those that complain about not being able to log into the X system as root. If something were to hose your Xserver, would you have to just reinstall? Having learned even as little as I know about CLI, was able to fix this self-induced problem without ever having to reach for a disk. Bet you didn't even know you could run MCC without X, did you?

I have no idea why, but when I installed flashplayer on my desktop, it worked just fine, FireFox plays files like a champ, and Konqueror does as well. When I tried to install it on the laptop however, though FireFox does fine, Konqueror only displays a gray box when trying it here. I have also tried a few other links on both boxes such as this, and :blush: this. The desktop copy of Konqueror plays them just fine, audio and video, and though I get audio on the laptop, I get no video at all. I have to click the "play button" on the second link, and though I cannot see it, apparently the mouse knows it's there as the cursor changes to the little hand. Both machines were a fresh install from 2007.0 Official PP disks. I've tried to remove the libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt files and reinstall on the laptop both as a user, and as root. I have also removed the files anywhere they were, d/l the installer files again, unarchived them and then as root, just copied them into the exact same directories as they are in on the desktop. Still no go. The "configure konqueror" settings are exactly the same as far as I can see on both boxes. I have google all over the place, and looked at all, or nearly all the postings here about konqueror + flash, as well as on linuxquestions, but still can find no help. Anyone have an idea what I can do?

It sounds reasonable, if the directory you have the driver in is in your path, I would guess it's not. Try this, I am assuming that you have a downloaded a windows driver for the card and it is in a directory you have in your /home/<user_name>/Download directory. Open a terminal and type: [spalla@locahost ~$] kdesu konqueror /usr/share <enter> Enter the root password when prompted. Right click in an empty area and make a new folder, name it anything you want, but for now, let's name it "card_driver". Double click on it so it is open. Now, click on "Location" in the upper left corner of konqueror and choose "new window". Navigate in the new copy of konqueror to where you have the driver you downloaded stored. Copy the entire directory that you unarchived the windows driver in into your "/usr/share/card_driver" directory. Go ahead and close the copies of konqueror you have open once you have done so, and go back to the terminal. su to root, and type: ndiswrapper -l <enter> this well tell you what the name of the driver is that you are currently using, now type ndiswrapper -e <name_of_your_driver> Now fire up MCC and try again installing the driver, but this time point ndiswrapper to the appropriate file inside /usr/share/card_driver/ directory. See if this doesn't work better for you. If it still doesn't work, you may need to edit a file. If after trying the above it still isn't there after a reboot, try "modprobe ndiswrapper" in a terminal as root again, if that brings it back, then you will have to add a line "ndiswrapper" in modprobe.preload.

Do you want it to work? Do you have a verbose mode? Can you answer the questions I have already asked? You said "it didn't help", am I to gather from this you are using ndiswrapper, or am just whistling in the wind? This is a great board, and there are lots of people (most much more clever than I) that are more than willing to help you, but we are not dentists, we will help if you make this a little less like pulling teeth.

Well, having just sat in a hotel in Guam for 5 days with little else to do, tried the above again. For whatever reason it now works, using one of the files available from http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Firmware. It may have been in an update, or the file on the site may have changed, I really do not know. I used the file from the site that is 83024 bytes, if that makes a difference. I wanted to run a few days with various connections before claiming victory, but was somewhat concerned about some of what I saw when I click on the recent changes link, then clicked on: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/ACX100/...:Protected_page :o Any clues?

But.... Are you using ndiswrapper? Did typing modprobe ndiswrapper work to get the connection up? Is there anything else you can add to help get you running?

I have had a similar problem in the past, with both 2006 and 2007, I am assuming you are running one of these. Are you running ndiswrapper? If you are, try "modprobe ndiswrapper" as root on a command line and see if that does the trick, if it does, there is a file you will need to edit, the name dependant on what version you are running.

Just a guess on my part, but you might want to check if MAC address filtering is enabled on the router. I have forgotten that I had it, and it caused problems. If that is not the problem, try setting the router to factory defaults, and see if it then connects, if it does, re-enable WEP, and try again. Let us know how it goes.

You are not alone there. I too sometimes do things I do not intend to do because of ill formed syntax (i.e. scp'ing or rsync'ing files to the wrong directory). If there is a task I think I will have to do over and over (rsync'ing to a usb drive as a backup method for example), I write it down so I can have reference to it the next time I use it. Also, I have mainly learned what I know of how to use the CLI by searching for what I need here, or in linuxquestions, or just linux googled. (You probably know this, but if you do not, there is a linux specific google page that is invaluable - http://www.google.com/linux ) Over the time that I have been using linux, I have come to have a love/hate relationship with both the CLI and the GUI/Wizards. I love the power of the CLI, but like you, sometimes have difficulty with the syntax. The GUI/Wizards are an entirely different problem, not all the options are available with them often times, and they will overwrite my changes sometimes without any input from me, causing loss of what little hair I have left when trying to track down what I did wrong, then finding I didn't do anything wrong, just did not shut of this or that wizard from "correcting" my changes. I had never even seen a gnome desktop until yesterday. I decided I would try to take a look at it, I was that bored, having to sit in this hotel with nothing to do for 119 hours. I installed it, though I doubt I installed everything that a regular gnome user would have, being unfamiliar with it. In my KDE desktop, there is a folder entitled "Devices", and any drive that I add just automagically shows up there. Having effectively 0 experience with gnome, I am not the guy to ask. Let me poke around and maybe I can tell you, though I see gowater already did, is without question much more versed on how to do things in linux regardless of the interface, and has already answered this.

You've used the term '"basic" graphical mode' twice now, is there an "advanced" graphical mode I am not aware of? Please take no offense at this, but I am beginning to think english is not your native language, and we may be in agreement here, and both of us just not realizing it, as the words/terms are getting in the way of understanding what the other really means. That said, if I am correct, you do light years better in english than I would be capable of doing in any other language. I do not understand why you want to deny yourself such a valuable tool. One can build a large wooden structure without ever using a hammer (the Mormon Tabernacle was built this way), but you have to use other tools that don't work as quickly or as well, and limit yourself, but if you want to do so, it is possible. You say "without being able to log in as root", this might be where the misunderstanding comes in, what exactly do you mean by this if not logging into the X system as root? I am guessing you know that every time you successfully use MCC, you are doing so as root. If indeed you are logging into from the login prompt as root, what tools do you believe this gives you that is not available any other way? Give me some examples, please. I bet (though it would be a pain, given your apparent fear or loathing of using a terminal) that I can get anything done you wish without having logged into an X session as root. OK, again then, what do you mean by logging in as root, if here you say you are not doing so? I have several additional drives, both internal and external set up, recognized and accessible from my desktop box (currently typing away from home on the laptop), FAT, NTFS and FAT32 and not once did I have to log in as root to do so, nor did I have to do what you seem to hate so much - use a terminal window. And of course, if you ever wish to update your system, or install system-wide accessible programs, you will have to use root priveldges. That's because it simply is not insolvable. I can't see denying myself as valuable and powerful a tool as CLI, but so far, I still don't see what you wish to do without a CLI that can't be accomplished without logging in as root.

Yeah, try http://aims.atlasair.com - same thing, though one can tell the "error" message was not written by someone who's first language is english. It will work past the login, but some features will not as it uses extensive (and unneeded) active-X.

You do not need to be logged into an X session to use MCC. MCC is available regardless of who's session it is, it will just pop up a window asking for the root password. MCC requires root privilege! Are you saying you cannot access MCC unless you log into the system as root? I find that difficult to believe. If you want to make using MCC as easy as using any other app though, you can use visudo and sudo to do it. This does require a short session with a terminal though. On the plus side, you only have to do the terminal thing once. Open a terminal, type "su" then press enter, it will ask for root's password, enter it and press enter. (You will notice the prompt has likely changed.) Type "visudo", then press enter. This opens the configuration file you need to alter in a vi session, don't be intimidated, it's not difficult, and you should only need to do this once, and if you make a bad error, it won't save it anyway. Once you are looking at this file, press "i". (This puts the editor in the "insert mode".) Use the cursor (not the mouse!) and move down to the lines that read something like: # Same thing without a password # %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Now, type the following: <your_user_name> localhost = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/drakconf After you have done so, press the escape key, then type ":wq" (without the quotes). Now, on the toolbar, and/or the desktop (whereever you have the icon), right click and click "properties", choose the application tab, put this in there: sudo '/usr/sbin/drakconf' Click "OK", and then, from now on, it will open without even asking for the root password. Give my suggestion a try, I'll bet it works for you. You can use the suggestion I made to be able to do any clickable app you have, you just put a comma after the "NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/drakconf" and add another app. If you just want everything that requires a root login to work make the line read: If you want to make using MCC as easy as using any other app though, you can use visudo and sudo to do it. This does require a short session with a terminal though. On the plus side, you only have to do the terminal thing once. Open a terminal, type "su" then press enter, it will ask for root's password, enter it and press enter. (You will notice the prompt has likely changed.) Type "visudo", then press enter. This opens the configuration file you need to alter in a vi session, don't be intimidated, it's not difficult, and you should only need to do this once, and if you make a bad error, it won't save it anyway. Once you are looking at this file, press "i". (This puts the editor in the "insert mode".) Use the cursor (not the mouse!) and move down to the lines that read something like: <your_user_name> localhost = NOPASSWD: ALL You can also change any other application to run as root (i.e. konqueror) you want by right-clicking and changing the application command, or clicking the advanced mode and choosing run as different user put in root and your password. Thought is you have to have a gui to be able to do normal system maintenance, I would have trouble calling you an advanced user. No offense meant, if you take some, that's you. If you want to do this, it's on your head. It's sort of like disabling anti-lock brakes because it doesn't give the kind of control you want - you LIKE locking up the brakes and making it sound cool! It might be dangerous, but it is your choice. Take a look at this for a good chuckle on the subject.

Obviously I spoke too soon. I now again (after a few reboots) get the dreaded Kernel panic because of a bad interrupt. I take the tiacx111c16 out of the /lib/firmware directory and it works, sort of. Not only do I now get the error message about the file being missing (though the wireless connection seems just fine - using it to type this) I also see a weird error message during bootup saying that the card was started in an invalid mode - it says it was called with "Roaming" as the mode (as opposed to Managed, or Ad Hoc). Looking at it with iwconfig, it shows the mode as Managed, but MCC shows it as Roaming, and if I try to change it there, the system locks. I think when 2008 comes out, I will wait a few months before even looking at it, maybe some of the various bugs in any new release will already be ironed out. spinynorman you may want to move this once more.

I just upgraded to 2007, and other than a (fixed) problem mentioned elsewhere, the only thing I am now trying to get going is my pseudo PDF printer. I use this printer a LOT. Often I am not where I can access a paper printer, and having the printed PDF available to look at is great, plus, if needed, I can send it, or print it out to paper later. I tried to install the printer as I have before. Using the cups browser interface (http://localhost:631). In this I chose: Device for PDF = PDF Writing Device URI = file://home/karl/ Make/Manufacturer = Adobe Model/Driver = Adobe Laserjet II Cartridge v52.3 (en) In the past, this would have given me a PDF printer that printed a file to my home directory prefaced with my name, date, and a seemingly random number, now, with cups 1.2.4 on 2007 I get this error message: File device URIs have been disabled! To enable, see the FileDevice directive in "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf". If I edit the file, and put 'FileDevice Yes' in, cups refuses to start, saying the server cannot be reached, or that it cannot read the file cupsd.conf. Trying again, cups does come up, but the config file is in it's original state (my additions no longer there). I know something is overwriting the file, I don't even care if it does, but I would VERY much like to be able to enable the writing to a file again. If anyone has a clue how I can do this, please reply ASAP! Thanks

I am not sure which formum to post this in, so moderator, move it if you think it fits better elsewhere. I wanted to relate my experience with installing my WPC54G Linksys pcmcia card in my HP Pavillion 4900 laptop. I have used Mandriva since 9.0, and with the laptop since 10.1. I had initial troubles getting the wireless card to work, but when 2005 came out, it installed flawlessly. 2006 also had no installation issues using ndiswrapper. When I installed 2007 on the laptop things changed. I tried to install it the same way I had in previous versions, using the wpc54gv2_driver_utility_v2.02 under ndiswrapper. It initially installed OK, and got connected to my router. However, when I clicked on drakroam, it gave this error message: *********** Some packages (acx100-firmware) are required but aren't available. These packages can be found in Mandriva Club or in Mandriva commercial releases. Info: due to missing /lib/firmware/tiacx1* The required files can also be installed from this URL: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Firmware *********** Since I had downloaded the 6 CDs from the club site, I was a little surprised to see this message. I would have thought a club release would have had them. OK, maybe it was an oversight on someones part to have not included it in the club CDs I downloaded. I went to the site indicated in the error message, and d/l'ed the file FwRad16.bin, and renamed it. (I had looked and seen a picture of my card saying it was "OK" to use.) I put the file in the '/lib/firmware' directory as instructed, and on the next boot got: ************ EIP:[<eeda7ee37>] acxpci_i_interrupt+0x14310x6f0 [acx_pci] SS:ESP 0068ebdf728 <o>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt ************ (If there is an error above, write it off to my not being able to read my handwritten notes) Obviously there was a problem. I unplugged the card, rebooted, and everything came up normally. Putting the card back in and rebooting gave me the same, or similar error again. OK, remove the tiacx111c16 file from the directory, and it came up fine, and the wireless card worked again. I do not like to just ignore error messages (like the one drakroam now again gave me), so I started tinkering. I had overlooked two files named tiacx111c16 on the sourceforge website that also were available. I tried both of them and tried them, but same results. I walked away from it for a bit, and then remembered that in the wpc54 directory I had copied to the hard drive, there was also a file named FwRad16.bin. I thought, before I holler for help, let me try this. I copied it to the '/lib/firmware' directory, renaming it tiacx111c16. I crossed my fingers and rebooted. IT WORKED! I then rebooted again, forcing a fsck, and other than hanging for several minutes on hda8 57.6%, it still booted up just fine, the network came up, and clicking on drakroam no longer gave an error message. I still wonder why the CDs downloaded from the club pages didn't have that, and could have done without the hassle, but at least I got things working. [moved from Laptops by spinynorman]

Have you tried visudo? I did that for drakroam, and it works fine, it I just type "drakroam" in a terminal window it says "bash: drakroam: command not found", but if I type sudo drakroam, or, having altered the gui to run "sudo /usr/sbin/drakroam", that works too. I have it set for NOPASSWD when I use drakroam.

Thanks John. Before I got crossover installed, I was forced to boot to windows *much* more often than I am now, (now *maybe* once or twice a month, and mostly as a way to check if hardware is functioning more than anything else) and had had no problem previously either. As a matter of fact, I am beginning to wonder why I keep it. I kept it while it was still under warantee, but that has now expired. I learned the hard way unless you have the original configuration (i.e. windoze) getting any help from the manufacturere is near impossible. I just have the NTP source set as the install default source. This laptop goes with me everywhere, so what's close one day will be the other side of the planet the next. In the last 6 days I have overnighted in Anchorage, New York, London, Hong Kong and am now back in Anchorage. This is not overly unusual for me, so you can see just leaving it set to a handy NTP source is much more convenient than changing with every stop I make. I have the hardware clock set to US Central time, which I call home. NTPD *is* checked in MCC. Odd thing is, about 08:00 Hong Kong time is when the time began displaying incorrectly (1 hour early), but times in the US were all showing correctly. Later that same day, around 16:00 HK time, HK time again displayed correctly, but the time zones in the US were off by 1 hour - DST *not* being applied - though by then they should have (at least the Eastern half). This occured without my touching the computer, it was just on, and connected to the `net thru high speed. Now, having arrived once again in Achorage, all the time zones I have looked at again show correctly. It was only *while* DST rolled across the world that the system hicoughed. It is April 3 02:20 Alaska time as I write this. In another forum, I was pointed to a bug report that said some of the DST data is out of date in Mandriva. This may be true, but I have a hard time believing this is the case for HK, as they last time DST was used there was 1980 - 26 years ago!

#1 My hardware clock *is* set to local time (in my case US Central time), not Z. #2 Are you saying having the *ability* to dual boot causes problems? I rarely boot to windows anymore and hadn't in over a week before I had the glitch with the time displaying properly..

I guess I was unaware that one could "turn on" DST. I do have NTP installed and running and have "updated" time several times. I am not sure the time changes on the NTP servers, I would imagine they keep time in Z/UTC, but don't really know. I would think it would be left to the local system software to apply the appropriate offset. Odd thing is, later in same the day Hong Kong time again began showing correctly, so out of curiousity I looked at what the system showed for time zones in the US. This was *after* DST kicked in there, and they did *not* show the proper time, but were one hour fast - DST *not* applied - though it should have been. I have a dual boot system, but anymore, the electrons get quite dusty between boots to windoze. I am not even sure why I keep it these days. Windoze time was more screwed up than Linux, and I did nothing with it other than to take a look. Perhaps the electrons are just confused by the time changes in many, but not all of the zones. I'll look at it again when I get to Anchorage later today, and see what it shows.

One of the many things I love about Linux is the ability to easily show whatever timezone I am currently in. I use this feature a lot, and have come to rely on it to tell me the local time. The only previous problem I've had was in Almaty, but found it depended on what part of the city I was in... I am currently in Hong Kong, and since I was skype'ing friends and family in the states, they all seem to know what time it is where I am. For some reason unknown to me, the time showing at the bottom changed from being correct to being one hour early. I realize in the US tonight is the change to DST, but DST no longer is used in Hong Kong, and at the time of the change, DST had yet to kick in. The only thing that comes to mind is that UTC went over midnight, but this makes no sense, as HK is still UTC + 8. (I *do* wish that UTC was one of the options available to display!) The clock still shows the correct current time at home (CST), verified by www.dateandtime.com and by the person I was talking to at the time I noticed it. Other time zones seem correct, though I have not checked but a few, it is only HK time that is wrong. Is this a glitch that has a fix? I am hoping I get a response to this post....