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Is this an A7V8X or A7V8X-X? Yes it does make a difference! The A7V6X has a BroadCom 1000 LAN, and the A7V8X-X has a Realtek PHY 100/10. There are other differences that will affect your choice of a distro.

Empty here too. It is listed on Actiontec's web site here.

Is this a via based motherboard or otherwise?

Ok, I see where the issue is now. Drakeconf is not available eaily in 9.2. This is why I don't like 9.2. Open your home directory (the house icon on the lower left, mear the start menu). From the dropdown menu of konqueror, pick Tools-->open terminal. In the terminal window, type drakconf. you will be prompted fro your root password The Contol Center will open up. On the left, pick Network & Internet Pick the DrakConnect helps you set up your network and Internet connection icon. in that window, if internet access does not show a status of connected, and if there is no eth0 entry (or otherwise) under lan Configuration, click on the launch the wizard button. Allow the utility to use auto detection to set up the LAN. Under Choose the connection you want to configure, you should see LAN as the connection found..go from there. See if this works.

Easiest answer? Use a router to connect your system(s) via a NIC card. What model number is it? Wired or wireless?

See my reply to your other post here.

If you have an onboard nForce NIC, then you have a couple of options. From what I remember, Mandrake 9.2 does not directly support these chipsets...they were too new for the version. Depending on your level of experience with Linux, you can; 1. Take the easiest way out and buy a PCI NIC card that is supported in Linux. There are several that will work and the cost is around $10-15 USD. 2. Install the NVIDIA chipset drivers...not the graphic drivers. 3. Compile a new kernel with the support built in for the chipset. 4. Upgrade to Mandrake 10, which has the support built in for the mForce boards. You should have been given the option when you installed Mandrake to set up DHCP. However, depending on what way you go, you can use the Mandrake Control Center to set up the NIC card.

That's when the guy used to come out and pump the gas for you. Sorry, I could not resist! Maybe NeVeRCLeaR could explain this a bit!

If you are brand new to Linux, I would leave it alone for now, until you get comfortable with using the editors and command line stuff. But, if you must, you can edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and change the default option from 0 to 1. So, you probably see something like; default=0 timeout=30 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-0.12) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-0.12 ro root=/dev/hda3 initrd /initrd-2.4.18-0.12.img Change the default= option to 1. The numbers start with 0 (or should), which means boot the first title entry. You should have another entry, the second, assuming that you are just booting Windows and RedHat, like; title DOS....this is the second entry. Save the file and exit your editor.

Did you follow the response to your post on that site? Just hit the enter key and see if the install continues.

I'm not sure if this is the problem both of you had, but it seems that you all are looking in windows at your partitions? Fdisk and Windows do not see Linux partitions. Windows will only see what is Windows based, such as dos and fat filesystems. So, if you used Mandrake's partitionig tool to use free space on the drive (on the windows partition), then you will not see the linux partiitons in dos or windows. Only what is allocated to windows. The rest of the drive is allocated to Linux and can only be seen by Linux, or a partitioning utility tool, like PartitionMagic.

Try the solution that the last post recommended (zipjay) located here.

Let's try a few simple things (hopefully first). As root user, in a console window, type in the following command; modprobe usb-storage You should get a return command prompt with no error messages. Then type in; dmesg See if you get a message "USB mass storage device... and look for an indication of what block device the camera is seen on, the example would be sda1, unless you have other usb devices installed, such as a pen drive. Make sure you have a mount point assigned for the camera by typing in (if you already have not done so previously); mkdir /mnt/p12 Then try to mount the camera with the commands you gave above, making sure that sda1 reflects what you got when you looked for the camera in the dmesg output. Here is a link that explains the process, although the links do not work anymore; Suse digital camera howto

Take a look at this forum post. According to one of the posts, this driver is for RedHat 7.3. What distro and version are you running?

Ok, the second one is deleted. It would be nice, if you have the time, to post your solution. I lot of folks have posted about wireless cards and this may help others. I used the Linuxant drivers for my wireless, that gave me a big headache (D-link) wireless. It was worth the low price for me, but many folks don't wish to pay for drivers.

I had the same problem with kudzu. Do you actually have two scsi devices (removable), or just one? It looks like it set up one, then another when you changed the partition table.

There are a few ways to do it. Taeuler's way should work. Let us know how it goes. You can also do a mirror image of the partitions using partimage, or even from the command line to copy the partitions over. The important thing is to flag the mount points correctly, if you keep the drives jumpered as they are now. I wanted to mention one thing. How old is the original drive? I also assume that the new drive is much faster than the old. It may be worth the effort (if the old drive is say more than 5 years old) to make your new drive your primary master. You could use the new drive's utility to format 20 gigs for Windows and copy your win installation to the new drive. If you decide to reinstall linux, then switch the jumpers on the hard drives so that the new drive is master and reinstall Linux (unless of course you have a lot of time invested in the Linux system). Or, if you want to keep the current linux installation, you can set up windows, as described above, set up the partitions for linux, copy (mirror) the current linux data to the new drive and then switch the jumpers on the drives. The new faster drive is now your master primary and boot drive. It depends on how daring you are. What I am getting at is the age of the old drive and the possibility of drive failure, if it is an old aging drive.

apropos, the link that you gave is for the WPC11, not the WPC54G. Different chipset? Anyway, you would need to install the kernel source package for the kernel version that you have in order to compile the driver. Do you have the kernel source package installed? It should be under /usr/src/linux, if it is installed.

I had the same issue with raid enabled with a dual boot of Debian and Mandrake. I think that I may have an answer, let me look at this later today (unless someone else jumps in first). It's best to allow grub to be installed from the newest installed distro, so that the device.map file gets written properly and detect all your drives and OS, as Gentoo sees them. However, basically what you need to do is determine how Fedora sees the drives and edit the grub menu and device.map files accordingly, if you want to keep the Fedora grub bootloader. Both distros may see the drives differently. Get into Fedora and see what the Gentoo install seems to be able to be mounted on. Also, is the Gentoo install on the first partition of the second sata drive? If so, then root would not be root=/dev/hdg3, rather root=/dev/hdg1. If they are set up as raid, this is another issue. Then it would be important to note where Fedora sees it, which seems to be as an ide drive, rather than raid. The other option would be to allow Gentoo to write grub. But let's see what you got first. If grub is in the /boot directory of the Gentoo install, see what that says also (where root is located), once you mount the Gentoo partition with Fedora.

What errors did you get on boot? A kernel panic? The method used to recompile the kernel is slightly different in kernel 2.6. Did you recompile the stock kernel, or from source? make mrproper wipes the default .config settings in the kernel source directory, kinda like starting from scratch. If you recompiled from source, you have to add all the modules that you need, or add the ones from the stock kernel by transferring the config file from your /boot directory to the kernel source. See the link that I gave below, but, if the original kernel config was config-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl, then you would need to move and rename it to .config in the kernel source directory. It also looks like you did not complete the install process. Did you manually edit your lilo or grub file at all to make a new setting for the new kernel, or boot from the same settings? If you did not add the new kernel compile system.map and vmlinuz to the /boot directory (for example, the last step of the kernel compile should have been make install -so, the actual steps should have been (after doing make menuconfig); make bzImage && make modules modules_install make install For a reference (if I confused you) see this link. This should explain the steps.

If you told Mandrake to take over the drive, most likely Mandrake created a root file (which would be / or root), a swap partition and a home partition. When in Mandrake, go to start-->system-->configuration-->configure your computer. Click on the mount points icon, then the partitions icon. You should see the partitions on the drive and how they are set up. Click on any colored partition image and you should be able to see the partition types, designation and size of each partition. Does this add up? What are the partition types, designations and sizes?

This is a common problem. This modem is a winmodem, designed to work in windows only. However, opinions will fly here, but the easiest thing to do is buy the modem drivers from Linuxant (14.95). You can find the references here. Click on the drivers tab on the top and choose Conexant. You can try out the driver first (if yours is supported) first, which will run at 33bps, but if they work, it is worth the saved frustration in trying to get it working. Once you pay, the enhanced drivers run at the full speed possible, given your phone line connections (copper vs. fiber between you and the switch station). Check out the modem test first to make sure the laptop will support it. Often, laptops will have "combo cards", which means that the modem is integrated with another device, such as a NIC. What laptop do you have?

Have you tried Gimp? Get to the Gimp program. From the menu choose File-->Aquire-->Screen Shot. Choose a single window, then use the mouse to define the area you want a screenshot of. Or, choose the whole screen option. Save (as) the image to where you want it. Make sure that you type in a file name and choose a file format.

First verify that your download was ok by checking the md5sum. Then burn at 4-8X speed. Slow! Especially if you are using cdrw media.

What distro are you using? RedHat, Suse, Mandrake...? There is another thread on this subject that Dapper Dan helped with, located here.