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Do all your regular updates. Then proceed to update your kernel As root, type this: # urpmi --update kernel Then install the kernel-source # urpmi kernel-source Then install ndiswrapper and follow the instructions on the Readme to make it work. In short, you will have to modprobe the new installed driver and then configure the card. # modprobe nameofdriver Go to MDK's Control Center and configure your card. You could also buy a supported card and avoid all the above hassle. Linspire's website has a decent list of supported wireless cards in its knowledge base. Those will work fine under MDK. Good luck

Make sure to do your updates after installation. Also do a google for "easy urpmi". You will be glad you did.

I seriously doubt that your disk was damaged. The konqueror issue is a documented error with a documented fix. Simply do your updates after installation. If you are still convinced that your disk is damaged, feel free to send it to me for "service".

I am a little confused. i thought that you were supposed to be doing the updates to Community 10.1 from main and not from cooker. Can someone please provide an authoritative answer to this issue? Thanks.

Sorry I didn't make myself very clear. I didn't want to completely redesign my desktop or to suggest that anything like it be used by default. Lazyness got the best of me. :) I did want to suggest the provided color scheme for the desktop as default as well as the other suggestions I already made in writing. I find Noia very complete and very usable, but I'll take yoru word for it about the missing icons.

OK, I took your suggestions for the background and used #506294 and combined with #1D2D36 to create this: http://www.mialug.org/downloads/images/dis...ts/Mandrake.png http://www.mialug.org/downloads/images/dis...s/Mandrake1.png http://www.mialug.org/downloads/images/dis...s/Mandrake2.png The only thing I would change in the above shots is the size of the deskstop icons. They should be smaller for general consumption, although I like them fine that way. Specific suggestions: *Improve Mandrake's Control Center, particularly the Internet configuration center and the font installer leave a lot to be desired. *Make Noia the Default Iconset. *Provide better backgrounds. I emailed Mandrake offering a free set of backgrounds with pictures that a professional photographer friend of mine had taken. Mandrake never got back to me. If anybody has a way of reaching mandrake, let me know through my site: http://www.porcel.net *Make Plastik or .NET default Style *Make Plastik or MDK square default window style. *Make fonts bigger all around. The first thing I always do is go to KDE's Control Center so that the fonts become legible. *Place dictionary and desktop access applet on Panel by default. *Default Icons should be: Desktop Access, Home, Browser, Email, IM, Application Button that provides access to the Office suite. *Provide by default some of the very useful KDE service-menus available at kde-look.org *Beyond looks, test, test, test, test, test, test, test the heck out of the release. There should be no obvious bugs. I love Mandrake. These are all just friendly suggestions.

I find what you are doing utterly irresponsible. Mandrake Community release is meant as a testing distribution for those that want to live on the bleeding edge such as myself and many of the folks in this forum. It is absolutely not what you give a customer. Either give them a patched 9.2 or get a club membership and give them MDK 10 official.

Do you have libdvdcss installed? Tha's all I needed to install to get DVD playing going smoothly with Totem.

Sagittarius, I am a little confused by your post. Should we used your rpms to install kde 3.2 on Mandrake 9.2 or should we use Mandrake 10 Community rpms? I am just a bit confused by what you say in your web page. If we should use Mandrake's 10 Community rpms, how do we add those to the list of repositories? Are they any negative side effects to just installing from your rpms?

What you want to do doesn't make any sense. Why? Because the cheap raid that comes with the SATA chipset is not really hardware raid. The Windows driver is doing all the work. Thus, Mandrake gets confused when it sees the odd partition layout that the sata-raid driver presents. Secondly, Raid 0 is a waste of time and potentially of your data unless you do tons of video-editing. If you want to do Raid properly, get a 3ware controller. The drivers are part of the kernel and work perfectly with all OSs. I always tell people to avoid getting Raid or SCSI built into the motherboard. Save the money and invest it into a card that you can take with you when you upgrade boards/cpu.

Don't leave any USB devices attached to the computer until you are passed that stage and see what happens.

Dear Mandrakians, After being unable to play DVDs by using the Ogle rpms available through plf, I decided to do a little bit of research. Now I have perfect playback and I thought this info might benefit other folks. To get Ogle to play in Mandrake 9.2,you need to install the the following package from the third CD of the download distribution: XFree86-compat-libs-4.1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm Then, Go to this page: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/redhat.shtm Where you will find a convenient link for the following rpms: libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.fr.i386.rpm libdvdread-0.9.4-fr3.i386.rpm ogle-0.9.1-fr3.i386.rpm ogle_gui-0.9.1-fr2.i386.rpm I used the freshrpms link for each of the above. Make sure you download theactual rpm and not the devel or source package. Install each the usual way,i.e. rpm -ivh "nameofrpm" That's it. Enjoy perfect and beautiful DVD playback in Mandrake 9.2. But it gets even better. Once you install the above. Totem, the media player included with Mandrake will be able to play your DVDs too. So now you have mp3, DVD, CDs and mpeg playback from a very cool looking app. I am having fun and enjoying this new release. Ps: The plf packages for Ogle are junk. I repeat junk, so don't bother using them. And I was using the 9.2 plf available through easy urpmi. Anyway the above works perfectly.

Dear Mandrakians, After being unable to play DVDs by using the Ogle rpms available through plf, I decided to do a little bit of research. Now I have perfect playback and I thought this info might benefit other folks. To get Ogle to play in Mandrake 9.2,you need to install the the following package from the third CD of the download distribution: XFree86-compat-libs-4.1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm Then, Go to this page: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/redhat.shtm Where you will find a convenient link for the following rpms: libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.fr.i386.rpm libdvdread-0.9.4-fr3.i386.rpm ogle-0.9.1-fr3.i386.rpm ogle_gui-0.9.1-fr2.i386.rpm I used the freshrpms link for each of the above. Make sure you download theactual rpm and not the devel or source package. Install each the usual way,i.e. rpm -ivh "nameofrpm" That's it. Enjoy perfect and beautiful DVD playback in Mandrake 9.2. But it gets even better. Once you install the above. Totem, the media player included with Mandrake will be able to play your DVDs too. So now you have mp3, DVD, CDs and mpeg playback from a very cool looking app. I am having fun and enjoying this new release. Ps: The plf packages for Ogle are junk. I repeat junk, so don't bother using them

I am generally very impressed with Mandrake 9.2. It seems more stable and faster than any other edition I have used. For instance, using my external USB2 drive used to lock the computer hard. Now it works perfectly. It is however not without problems. Among them: *DVD playback. I added the plf source to urpmi and proceeded to install Ogle, which has always run great. Now, opening a DVD causes the program to seg-fault and quit. I just discovered the included Totem Multimedia player that appears to be able to play DVDs. What do you have to do to make Totem play DVDs? Alternately, is someone using Ogle successfully with 9.2? If so, how, and where did you get your rpms? Finally, Totem plays music CDs perfectly, it even grabs the CDinfo from the web. KSCD will "play" them, but it produces no sound. If you can throw an light on the above and how you went about resolving it, I'd be thankful. Good day.

From http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2624.html Ok, so I am not going crazy. I did read about the eight bit encoded of filenames, but I was under the impression that the latest versions of NFS actually supported it. What is a little puzzling is that I am sure NFS is being used to share files in Spanish speaking countries, so there has to be a work around. By the way, I can live without the accents on filenames perfectly fine, but the "ñ" is absolutely needed. Not to put a fine put on it, but the difference between "ano" and "año" (anus) and (year) is just that one mischievous letter. Thanks for your help. I also found that there is an internationalization option for Samba where one can specify the character set. Unfortunately, this hasn't resolved the issues for me yet either. Anybody else? Is there no resident Spaniard in the house?

How about less drastic approach for someone who is clearly struggling with the basics? Go to /var/log and look at your messages. YOu want to read both a file called "dmesg" and "messages". There might be plenty of juicy information there explaining what's going on. Additionally, if you haven't upgraded your kernel, do so, but do it the easy way for now, which is go to mandrakesecure.net and download the rpm for the kernel. Install it by doing urpmi nameofkernel but BEFORE YOU DO SO make sure that you make a backup of your old /etc/lilo.conf before doing so. To do so: mv /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.backup Issue now : urpmi nameofkernel After you are done, make sure that you add one additonal stanza for your old kernel to your new lilo.conf that points to the old kernel, just in case. All of this is explained in greater detail at mandrakesecure.net, but my feeling is that you will not have to do any of this if you go through your logs. And easier way to access your logs, I just happened to remember, is to go to Mandrake's control center and use the logging tool that's in there. Good luck.

Hi Guys, I just finished setting up a Mandrake 9.1 file server. Everything went great and I am using samba to share files both with the rest of my Linux machines and the one lonely windows box. So far so good, but for some reason, Samba does not appear to like the ñ or any accented character that are common in the Spanish language. The files that have these characters have a lock on them when mounted and can only be accessed from the windows box, but not from any of the Linux boxes. I find this perplexing, since I would presume that two boxes using the same version of samba would understand each other better than a Samba server and a Windows box. Anybody has any pointers how to correct this naming issue? In the meantime, I decided that the weird file naming surely must have something to do with the fact that CIFS is a microsoft protocol that is not fully documented. So NFS here I come! I create my /etc/exports as such: /home/network 192.168.1.3(rw) And for added security specify the following in /etc/hosts.allow: portmap: 192.168.1.2 , 192.168.1.3, 192.168.1.100 lockd: 192.168.1.2 , 192.168.1.3 , 192.168.1.100 rquotad: 192.168.1.2 , 192.168.1.3 , 192.168.1.100 mountd: 192.168.1.2 , 192.168.1.3 , 192.168.1.100 statd: 192.168.1.2 , 192.168.1.3 , 192.168.1.100 and /etc/hosts.deny: portmap:ALL lockd:ALL mountd:ALL rquotad:ALL statd:ALL So far everything is going honky dory, all of my daemons are running, so I proceed to mount the share. And it mounts, BUT. Here's the big BUT. 1) The naming issue that manifested itself between samba server and samba clients also appears between the NFS server and NFS clients, with the Samba server and Windows 2000 as the only combination to get it right. 2) The mounted share /home/network has three subdirectories /backup /Documents /Music but I can only write to /Documents but not to any of its subdirectories and I can only do so some of the time. Leaving the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files empty and doing "service nfs reload" and "service nfs restart" does not make any difference. I have read and re-read the NFS-How-To, Red Hat's and Mandrake's documentation on the subject, etc. What incredibly obvious thing am I missing? What in the world is going on? If you have made it this far into my post, I humbly thank you. Ps: I am looking forward to proper ACLs and some rational directory services in Linux. That's what the folks at Novell had promised to deliver and I hope they do as some of these things can be a bit trying. Granted, Samba's file sharing took me 2 minutes to set up and it works well with the exception of the naming issues. Thanks for your help.

Guys, don't reinvent the wheel. Why not help the folks at rythmbox: http://www.rhythmbox.org/index.phtml Rhythmbox is already very impressive as it is. It just needs a few more people to make it truly great. I am not a developer, but of all the media players, this is my favorite. For DVDs, nothing beats Ogle.

I am having the same problems. X in 9.1 is severely broken. My laptop work with the Xfree86 server that shipped all the way back to Mandrake 7.2 and now it doesn't. 9.0 works fine, but don't we all want the latest and greatest. As an aside to this, I installed Mandrake in another laptop and it wouldn't recognize a Xircom card that is widely supported. Every time I have had an issue, Red Hat always works. My desktop constantly reboots under 9.1. I think it is because it doesn't see all the memory installed (1.5GB). Again Mandrake 9.0 or Red Hat don't have any issues. My uptime on the destkop was measured in months and as soon as I went back to Mandrake 9.0 all was good. Somebody at Mandrake needs to begin smelling the coffee. This cannot go on. I am so enraged because I have recommened Mandrake to a LOT of people and it has come back to bite me. Mandrake's quality assurance just plain SUCKS. I have never seen a distribution that is nicer looking, but I have never come across one that is so BROKEN.

I have a D-Link Wireless 650 that works fine in RedHat 8.0.

I have been using Mandrake since the 7.1 days and this is the first time that I have experienced serious showstopper bugs. I want to help by submitting a few bugs, but I have no time to be involved in Mandrake's ongoing development process. I read thorugh Mandrake's site and it asks me to send an email to qa@mandrakesoft.com to obtain a bugzilla account. Why can't I just email them the bugs and get a reply by email, particularly when I have documented the bugs sufficiently? Mandrake 9.1 does LOOK very nice and polished. Unfortunately, it needs to be far more stable to be usable. On My Desktop: *I have a USB 2.0 HD connected to the USB 2.0 ports provided by a Maxtor USB 2.0 PCI Card.When I attempt to copy from the USB drive to my desktop, the computer hangs hard and requires a reboot. There is no way to restart X, keyboard is unresponsive, the whole machine just hangs. This happens irrespective of whether I use ext3 or ReiserFS as the file system. *If my desktop computer is left on the Mandrake Login Manager, the computer randomly reboots itself. No, this is not a hardware issue. My prior uptime with this computer was of 167 days and the computer again remains stable in RedHat 8.0. Could this be caused by the ACPI-kernel that is supposed to be included in Mandrake? *The version of ogle that mandrake installs is old. Somehow neither 0.85 or the newer 0.91 play DVDs which I am able to do without issues in RedHat 8.0. On My Laptop: (Pro-Star 8593) This is one of the most standard laptops around. All hardware is recognized and configured by Mandrake 9.0 and Redhat 8.0 In Mandrake 9.1, there is no way to get XFree86 to display correctly. This laptop has worked without issues in Mandrake for the past few years. Inputting the vertical and horizontal refresh rates does nothing. I have also tried choosing different LSD monitors, the custom option, etc in XFdrake. I have Mandrake's XFConfig file in case somebody wants to look at it. I also have RedHat's XF86Config file as well as the the XFree86.0.log and XFree86.setup.log from /var/logs. If anybody can help or knows who I can contact in Mandrake to get these issues resolved, I would be very grateful. Thanks.

I would also love to know as I own a Sun Cobalt Nasraq and I am stuck with the 2.0 MIPS kernel. I cannot use bigger hard drives on it because of this. I have the ISOS for the NASRAQ, but no source code. While the Nasraq has been the most reliable linux server I have ever run, running for over two years, it is pain in the ass to put yourself in the hands of a hardware manufacturer who can decide at any point to stop supporting a product, as it happened in my case.

How about linux.set.me.free.fr? I will eventually provide a link to my site once it's up and running.

I don't believe this to be accurate. Where does WD say that? I have nothing but Western Digital drives for the past 3 years and they work great. Fastest drives right now, too. Of course, they are not going to help you troubleshoot operating system questions, just like they will not help you if you don't know how to install a windows OS. All of their diagnostic tools just need a dos floppy, which you can obtain from bootfloppy.com.

We are going around in circles. I agree that the damn Fritz chip will not increase security. Most security breaches and privacy violations are inflicted by trusted sources. Bypassing an instruction set built into a CPU will not be trivial. For the social and political implications of all of this, please read: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html