daveld Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Hi folks, I've just bought a great laptop but so far 2008.1 free doesn't recognize my ethernet card or wireless card. I have not loaded 2008.1 yet. Is the purchased 2009 got the goods to cure my issues? I can't do anything with 2008.1 free or Mandriva if I can't get online. I am a newbie (still). I work with Autocad engineering software and until Linux and Autocad play together well, I am stuck with msvista. Any suggestions? Here's the spec's Acer Aspire AS8930-6306 Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26G Screen 18.4" Memory Size 4GB DDR2 Hard Disk 320GB Optical Drive DVD Super Multi Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Video Memory 512MB Card slot 1 x Express Card Tech Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology CPU Type Intel Core 2 Duo CPU Speed P8400(2.26GHz) CPU FSB 1066MHz CPU L2 Cache 3MB Chipset Intel PM45 Screen Size 18.4" Wide Screen Support Yes LCD Features HD CineCrystal LCD Resolution 1680 x 945 GPU/VPU NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Video Memory Dedicated 512MB Graphic Type Dedicated Card HDD 320GB HD RPM 7200rpm HD Interface SATA Optical Drive Type DVD Super Multi Optical Drive Interface Integrated WLAN Intel 5100 a/g/n Card Slot 1 x Express Card Video Port 1 x HDMI Audio Integrated Sound card Speaker Internal Speakers Supplemental Drive Card Reader 6-in-1 Webcam Yes I know there is someone here can help me. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 I am confused. You have not loaded 2008.1 but it is not working? Are you using the Mandriva One bootable DVD? My guess is that 2009.0 will not help rectify your problems. In my experience, while wireless can sometimes present a problem there is nothing simpler than getting an ethernet card to work in Mandriva. It just works. Can you give us more details? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveld Posted January 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 I used a bootable CD. If I knew it would work differently after loading, I would continue to load. Here's my situation. I do not have DSL or cable available for internet where I live. I own my own business so internet and email is absolutely necessary. I have a Aircard 881 PC card installed in WKT5 G router from Linksys. I tried to connect an ethernet cable to the router but 2008.1 doesn't even recognize the card. If I load the boot CD and try to find someone that has DSL, I will need it see my card before I can download from the repository. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 So, wait, you have a router which provides a connection via cellular data, but your PC just connects to the router via regular Ethernet? In that case, as far as Mandriva's concerned, it's just a perfectly standard Ethernet connection. It doesn't matter at all to Mandriva and your laptop how the router ultimately handles the Internet connection - that's the router's problem. All your laptop cares about is talking to router, which is done as a standard ethernet connection. If I read your post wrong and this is not actually your situation, please clarify :) So, further: in no case will the purchased version of Mandriva work better than the One edition for networking. The things that are unique to the purchased version are commercial software, and there's no commercial hardware drivers included, so as far as hardware support goes, One and Powerpack are basically identical. Free has slightly worse hardware support out of the box than One or Powerpack, simply because it only contains free software; it doesn't contain any non-free-but-redistributable software, like the NVIDIA and ATI graphics card drivers, or the firmware for Intel wireless adapters. These are included in One and Powerpack. You can add them to Free easily once you have an Internet connection, but they're not there out of the box. 2009 does work with some hardware that didn't work with 2008 Spring, but we really need some more details on exactly how your network is set up and what the problem is before we can be sure what it is you need. But definitely don't go out and buy a Powerpack, yet - it's not the answer to this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveld Posted January 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 I use my wireless card with msvista. I would love to use wireless for 2008.1 but it doesn't recognize my wireless or ethernet card. Is working off the bootable disk going to cause any issues with the network hardware? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveld Posted January 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2009 I have a Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller and 2008.1 free will not recognize it. Anybody got any suggestions? Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 24, 2009 Report Share Posted January 24, 2009 Your wifi needs kernel 2.6.27 or newer to work (with a simple "modprobe iwlagn" ). The Atheros ethernet probably needs the atl1e module loaded manually, and (quite likely) trying an updated driver: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=556...mp;postcount=29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveld Posted January 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 I'm not sure what kernel 2008.1 free has. I guess if I moved to 2009, the kernel would be covered. Is the Atheros driver hard to load? I've loaded some things but very few. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 I'm not sure what kernel 2008.1 free has. I guess if I moved to 2009, the kernel would be covered. Fully updated 2008.1 has the 2.6.24.7 kernel Fully updated 2009.0 has the 2.6.27.7 kernel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 25, 2009 Report Share Posted January 25, 2009 Fully updated 2008.1 has the 2.6.24.7 kernel Fully updated 2009.0 has the 2.6.27.7 kernel That is that. Which means: your wifi will not work out-of-the-box in 2008.1, but it will work in 2009.0 And- your ethernet will work in 2008.1, but since the driver is problematic, it may not work as advertized ( ? ) until you upgrade to 2009.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveld Posted January 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2009 Well an update is in order. Thanks. Give me a few days and I hopefully I will responding via linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveld Posted March 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 2009 is great. I'm wireless with Linux. Thanks for you help. On to the next issue. My old Gateway laptop. I loaded 2009 to have wireless for my sons to use but Linux turns off the wireless card when it comes on. I've tried to turn it back on via Fn+F2 buttons but no affect. I will try to get the brand and model of the wireless card. Maybe there is a command line way of turning it on. Daveld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 8, 2009 Report Share Posted March 8, 2009 You should not pay serious attention to the led indicator of the wifi. Neither on mine (LG E210 subnotebook with buggy, linux-hostile bios) it works out of the box (Fn+F6), the led stays off, but the wifi is working just fine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveld Posted March 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Gateway has a BroadCom Corp. BCM 4306 802.11b/g wireless LAN controller. 2009 sees the card but the linksys network in my home is not detected. Is there something to reset or turn on? should I try to connect it with an ethernet cable first to get it to see the linksys network? then try it wireless? Daveld Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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