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If this does not work, let us know what video hardware that you are using. Also, is ths a laptop or desktop? LCD monitor?

48 here. Us old foggys giving advice...

I looked at th /boot/config file and nforcewas not set. Did I mistakingly assume that they are not compiled into the kernel?

Mel Try this. Sign on as root user. The password is mepis Go to the k menu > settings > control panel Click on the + sign next to peripherals Choose printers Your printer should be listed on the top. On the bootom of the menu, where it says Printer system currently used, choose cups. On the top of the menu, choose add > add pinter/class > next. Click the button local printer > next Your printer should be listed under parallel port 1, click on this. > next on the let screen scroll down to hp. on the right choose your printer model Highlight the recommended driver > next A menu will come up with a "test" button. Click on this. wait for the test page to print, if it does successfully > next > next until you reach General information. pick a new name for the printer. For me it was laserjet2 (no spaces). ignore the other fields. Click on finish. Your new printer name should be there. Right click on it and set it as user default, exit the control panel Try to print a document using the printer name you just created. When you print your first document, make sure that cups is the default choice on the printer menu that comes up in the application that you use and that you use your new printer name.

Nice! I have a 5 year old and will remember the same. Yes, I said daughter, not grand-daughter. Dapper Dan, you didn't say how old you were! Mel. I have Mepis installed on my system with a HP laserjet. Is yours USB or parallel port? Reference for the hp deskjet 722c; http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_722C

Dapper Dan; Not a bad idea as I would be a newbie at this LOL. There is an RPM for kernel 2.6.0 for Fedora, I have it running on my system. However, the nforve drivers are not compiled in as modules, so it looks like a kernel compile may be in order. This is not for the faint of heart. There is an excellent article on the subject entitled slackware on fire. I will have to look it up. It will give you an idea on how to do it. It is in the archives on this site, but was moved from the original article location. I will try to look it up for you, so you can see what is involved. Let's se if this works; http://www.madpenguin.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=337

Maillion, good suggestion. Perhaps the sysadmin would consider this, since most people come here to look for an answer and do not think of looking on the net. elsewehre, such as a google search. Three issues seem to come from this thread. 1. Laptops: are notorious for having problems with Linux. I have tried several with all kinds of results. Video, CDROM drives and modems are the main issues. I also have one of those "WINMODEMS" on my Thinkpad. Won't work with anything! The closest I have come is with Lindows 4.5 laptop edition. Everything works out of the box, except the modem. I'll have to try Mepis on it. 2. CDROMS on Laptops: The hardware is so varied that people get frustrated. Burn an ISO on your desktop (most people don't have CDRW drives in laptops) but the burned CDROM won't work in their laptop. 3. Burning CD's: as we may have found here. A lot of people burn the file, not the image, a common mistake, happened to me! A lot of the distros won't check out OK if burned at too fast a speed. "Hey, my CDRW drive can burn at 24X, why doesn't it work?" Trying to boot a burned image in another machine with an older CDROM. Older CDROM's may not be able, without Adaptic software fix, to read CD's burned on a newer CDRW. That;s why I recommend booting with the same CDRW drive that you burned the image on. That way, if it works there and not in another system with an older CDROM, or the same system with a secondary CDROM, you know what the issue is.. happened to me at work. Have a 200 mhz NT system there (yah, I work for the state). Had to install the Adaptic CD patch to read the CDR"s that I burned at home. Cheap CDRW's and CD-R's - not worth the hassle. May be OK for data, but not for burning ISO's. And the last one - CDRW's in general. I have tried burning ISO's on several Memorex CDRW's with various results. You want to try a distro and not waste a CD-R. Sounds good, but this gotcha got me several times. Same brand and rating, different results. But, consistently good results burning at a slower speed.

Of course! Go to the ¨K¨ menu at the bottom left, click on it, then go to configuration > packaging > Install Software This will prompt you for your root password. Enter it and you will get the RPMdrake window. Type in the name of the package that you want under find, press search and checkmark the package, then click install on the lower right of the screen.

Correct, except in virtual PC, some have found that by bypassing the password (just not entering one and pressing the enter key), they got a response, which was the point of my question.

I have to agree. Now that I think about it Mandrake 9.0, if I remember correctly, nicely set up mount points for all my distros and Win partitions. The most recent versions, including cooker, would not. Although cooker detected my NTFS and fat32 Win XP partitions and set up mount points for them. The Mandrake cooker CD's also failed to upgrade my prior instalation of Mandrake 9.1 and I had to do a fresh install. It also failed to create a boot disk with lilo X3. I'm writing an article on it for my webpage and to use as a reference. Fedora looks and feels good and has been stable as a rock. Package installation has been a breeze. Of course, once you have a system setup the way that you want, it is hard to move on.

Of course, I hessitate to mention, but there is a kernel 2.6.0 RPM available for Fedora core 1. Works good for me! OK, I bought the Biostar nforce board, I could not resist! Found it at TigerDirect for $51.99. Something to challenge me a bit.

Of course, you could install Mandrake cooker, as I just did, which has kernel 2.6.0 and KDE 3.2 built in. I'm usng it as we write.

First, could you clarify what distro of Linux that you are using; RedHat, Mandrake... Try to see what AMR modem you have, or post what exact model of Toshiba laptop that you have. Some AMR modems are supported, some are not in Linux, depending on what model that you have.

I am not going to be much help on this one, but perhaps others can comment. HP and Compaq systems have a hidden partition that contains recovery information, and in some cases, bios information. It is good that you changed the hard drive, as I know that recovery disks are not usually shipped with XP systems with HP systems. This would have been a hassle. This issue is important if there was bios information written to the original disc, then the bios is affected. Can you get into the bios and change information, such as making the system boot off of CDROM first? I will assume yes, if you have been able to boot from a cd. MEPIS is a very good CD based distro and works in all my systems. The second issue is your hardware. The multi-function printers are a pain, especially USB. This will be the second major issue for you. If you have one, I would just try a plain printer to see if it works. Internet should work out of the box, if the hardware is supported. The only clarification would be if you are trying to use a USB modem directly connected to the USB port on your computer. Again, it sounds like you have a network adapter (NIC card), so the NIC card should be plugged into a router, which in turn is connected to the USB modem. Linux works with many common NIC cards, but intel may be an issue, I don't know. This may be solved by getting another NIC card that is supported. They are very cheap and may be worth the effort. Reference; http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/1000/linux/e100.htm Hopefully others can be more helpful on this one. You may want to try Knoppix as an alternative and see if this works, If not, look at the issues that I raised and let us know what you find.

Understood. My thought was to use it to get going, then work on the problem with the nforce issue. I just saw a Biostar M7NCD at Computergeeks for $54 and may give it a go. Sorry that I can´t be of more help here.

Also, take a look at Admiral´s thread; http://www.linuxcompatible.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=923&highlight=nforce

Boy, all these issues with the nforce chipsets makes me want to get one of these boards to try it out. I wonder...if you could just buy a pci nic card and see if it works? They are pretty cheap @ about $10 and may save some headaches. The driver issue seems to be universal with the nic built-in ehernet on the board.

Should be the same as RedHat 9. Try editing the /etc/fstab, as per the great link that you provided above.

Listen to Dapper Dan and give it a try. I use Fedora (the newest version of ReHat) and installed apt. It works great! Installing apt will be the hardest part, the rest is VERY EASY! There is a version of flash player available, but, as Dapper Dan says, not from apt. However, once you are convinced, you can give it a try.

I also recently installed Fedora on my system. What I noticed right away, is that Fedora, unlike Mandrake, does not auto config the fat32 partitions (auto mount them by adding a line in the fstab file on install). You can add this mount point fairly easily, as well as a desktop icon referencing the fat32 drive. I use a spare fat32 partiton as a transfer partiton. Any files that I need for both systems, I save to this fat32 partition. There is support in Fedora, but I don't think that it is compiled into the stock kernel. You would need to recompile the kernel with the support There is also a Fedora RPM 2.6.0 kernel available with this support. Again, I think that you would need to recompile the kernel to add it. I will have to look at mine and see. Admiral is the one to ask about this. He has answered some questions on this in other threads, you may want to do a search on nforce to find his links on the subject.

Many thanks... I converted the file system to NTFS. The whole process took less than 10 minutes. Lilo still works, without needing a recovery. Now off to compile the kernel for ntfs read support, which in Fedora, is not set in the config file.

Hmm... I think I understand. The two systems in question are on the opposite side of the house from the primary internet connection. You can only have two internet accounts/connections through your ISP provider? You want to "hard wire" the two boxes in the same room to share the internet connection, and control the two boxes in the same room, using the KVM switch. Good question! Maybe Dapper Dan can shed some light on this.

Admiral, thanks for clarifying this for me. This is a throwback to older distrios and needing to share my data in the Win XP partition. I guess the posts that I have seen with the new distros are due to errors where the bootloader is set to, rather than trouble with the NTFS partition and the bootloader. Now that I have a new larger hard drive this will not be an issue! Since you raised it, can I change the fat32 to NTFS in XP and re-install the bootloader?

I have Fedora set up on my machine, set up as a workstation. My system is directly connected to the router and my wife's (Win XP) to a wireless D-Link card. Once Fedora was set up, I made a desktop icon (right click on the desktop, choose create new...hard disk and name it what you want). Under the URL dropdown box, type smb:/ in the text box. Accept the changes. Then double click on the icon that you just make and you should see all your share drives on the Win 2K box.

Excuse me if you know all this already, but these are common mistakes. Make sure that the CD is burned using the option "burn image." If you are using Nero, Go to the file menu and choose burn image. Burn the image at 4X or 8X, no higher. When you view the CD, it should have a bunch of files listed, not just one file with the .iso extension. Then, make sure that the bios is set to CDROM as the first boot device. Check the MD5SUM to make sure that you have a good download.