danleff

Nice job DapperDan! HTML editors...Quanta Plus is very good, and Bluefish is another. Nvu is a new one out by the makers of Linspire, but can be used in any distro. Nvu also has a ftp uploader which I have not tried yet. We won't talk about the free Windows HTML editors...unless you want to.

Yep, you should not have to load any special settings, just choose enter to pass through them. I would assume that there is no onboard NIC available on the board that you would have to disable to allow proper recognition of any add-on NIC in a PCI slot? It would be interesting to see what happens with the Mepis live cd, whether the nic(s) are picked up or not.

I assume that you get the quick text message when you load the module from the menu (or attempt to) that the module load was not successful? Have you tried another slot on the PC to insert the card(s) to? One not next to the AGP or an ISA slot on the system.

Well, it is possible. The question is are you willing to use this system (it looks like this is your main sytem) to try? I have not really done this, but seen posts where users have been able to do it. I would first, back up my important data and make one win XP AND one Mandrake (or whatever the distro is that you are using lilo from) boot floppy disk, to recover from any problems. It looks like you have experience with lilo, so that you can add entries to lilo. This would be necessary, since you are installing OS' post install of the current lilo distro and you will want to add win 98 and others (installed to hdd-1 and 2) after the fact. So, you will be using lilo as the bootloader. Again, make sure that you are sure about doing this. There are no absolutes with this method. The technique involves setting the jumper pins on the replacement hard drive to primary master and disconnecting the other drives. You would then install Win 98 to the drive, shut down the system when you are satisfied with the results, change the jumper on the drive back to primary slave (or whatever it is in your system), reconnect the other drives correctly, boot into Mandrake and edit lilo to find win 98 on the primary slave. Again, I would do a google search on this and read up on the technique and see if you want to chance it on this system. To give you an idea of the issues, look at this article Maybe someone else has actually tried this before and has more specifics. I had Win 98 previously installed on my second hard drive (formally assigned to primary master) and was able to boot it by changing the bios to boot from hdd 0 to hdd 1, since all the registry entries and such were set to c: as the primary master. This was a pain to do each time (chnaging it back and forth), but it worked.

I bought the full drivers for my wireless D-Link PCMCIA network card and am very happy with them. Good to see that you got it going!!

I would stay away from the beta 2.6 kernel until you get the basic system down. What flavor of Debian are you running, woody, Sarge or Sid? Synaptic or apt-get can install the latest 2.6.6 kernel image for you, but there are some dependency issues that need to be resolved, too get it up and working properly. And no, a kernel install does not ask you to make a boot floppy, but adds the new required files to /boot, then you can add them to the Grub menu file in /boot/grub. If Grub is installed onto the hard drive, it should add the boot entry for you. The stock 2.4.XX kernel should give you what you need to get started. You can add other entries to 2.6 later on to Grub when you get comfortable with everything and install the image. The link to the dual boot with boot.ini on 2000 or XP systems is here. You may want to take a look at it before you decide what to do. Debian generally is a bit more complicated than the recent distros, such as Mandrake and Fedora, which offer you a quick easy GUI interface that allow you to add other Linux distros and Windows to the Grub bootloader with little effort, if this is the way that you choose to go.

Looks like; /dev/hda1 * 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS (Windows XP) /dev/hda2 3825 19456 125564040 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) (Windows extended partition - not mountable) /dev/hda5 3825 6374 20482843+ 83 Linux (Fedora) /dev/hda6 6375 19122 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS (100 gig NTFS) /dev/hda7 19123 19224 819283+ 82 Linux swap 3 and 4 doesnt matter!

Yes, and there are multiple revisions of this card. You need to know exactly what revision that you have, as they each have different chipsets, as you can see from the referenced chart that DapperDan posted. Also, is it a DWL-650 or 650+?

You need to install as root user. when you set up RedHat, you should have been asked for a user and root user password. At the terminal, type; su hit the enter key; then input the root password when prompted, hit the enter key. After this try the install.

For most packages, uninstalling rpm's; rpm -e (name-of-package-to-uninstall) minus the .rpm extension. For source code packages, cd into the package's gunziped directory and type; make clean (enter key) make distclean (enter key) make uninstall (enter key) Of course, consult the readme or install file for specific instructions for the source package to make sure that there are not special instructions for the package. Most rpm based distros also have an uninstall utility in the media control panel, or under configure computer--->configure-->package management...that allows you to search for and uninstall an application. [Edited by danleff on 2004-06-13 06:31:36]

Originally posted by Koba: Quote: Thank you so much for your reply. Over the past two days I've been constantly installing and reinstalling Linux and Windows. I first had to install linux, find the kernel version, reinstall windows, download the driver version I thought was correct, reinstall linux, only to find I lost the floppy disk! (God knows where),then reinstalled windows, redownload the package, went back to linux (only to find the rpm doesn't work)and now I am back on windows! I think my hard drive has had quite enough but it isn't finished yet. I understand my Red Hat kernel version is 2.4.20-8 but the nearest linuxant package is for 2.4.20-8-1. Maybe I have done something wrong but I think this means the package for my kernel is unavailable. I'll be going back to linux for a second attempt tonight along with the generic drivers. This involves compiling source so I am not overly optimistic. The alternative is to update my Red Hat kernel (surely I don't need to download all of Red Hat again??!!). As far as I can tell I need the HSF drivers for Red Hat i386 kernel 2.4.20-8 (if any of this is wrong I am simply going to get nowhere). If I were you, I would take DapperDan's advice and get the Actiontec serial modem. It will save a lot of headaches. Let me ask, why are you installing and re-installing Windows and Linux? What version of Windows are you using? You should be able to boot Windows and RedHat in a dual boot senario. DapperDan has extensive experience with RedHat 9 and can assist in this regard. The Linuxant version that you are downloading is correct - notice on the download page that it states "2.4.20-8" on the far left. The 1rh just referes to the file version for the driver. What happens when you install the driver that makes it not able to work? Installing the actual driver, or post-install?

There are actually two ways to do this. Write Grub to the MBR (since you are booting from the primary drive) and add XP to grub or add Debian to the boot.ini. Did you do a floppy boot disk as well? I'll look up the link for the boot.ini file edit later, if you would like.

Suse's web site lists support for nforce2 motherboards as "unknown." So, it is unclear if suse will install and detect the hardware, such as the onboard lan correctly. Maybe someone else has done so and can comment on this. Just as a note, Mandrake 9.2 had some serious problems with LG CDROM drives, but the DVD drives should be fine. See this errata

This has been reported and is a known issue in the releases of fedora with the 2.6 series kernel. I do not know the details, but it seems to be a problem with kernel 2.6 and parted and apparently occurs when using Fedora's partitioning utility during the install. I have been able to install Fedora by using the upgrade method, without incident. I would guess that you should pre-format the partitions with a partitioning utility (not the partitioning utility in Fedora during the install) and then try the install, using your fresh partition. Mel, did you use the Fedora partitioning utility during the install? P.S. See the story; http://news.com.com/Red+Hat+Linux+upgrad...d&subj=news

The correct syntax should be; modprobe ath_pci Then try the rest of the instructions to test the connection.

Did you read the readme file for a solution? From the nvidia readme file; "X starts for me, but OpenGL applications terminate immediately. A: If X starts, but OpenGL causes problems, you most likely have a problem with other libraries in the way, or there are stale symlinks. See Appendix C for details. Sometimes, all it takes is to rerun 'ldconfig'. You should also check that the correct extensions are present; 'xdpyinfo' should show the "GLX", "NV-GLX" and "NVIDIA-GLX" extensions present. If these three extensions are not present, then there is most likely a problem with the glx module getting loaded or it is unable to implicitly load GLcore. Check your XF86Config file and make sure that you are loading glx (see "Editing Your XF86Config File" above). If your XF86Config file is correct, then check the XFree86 log file for warnings/errors pertaining to GLX. Also check that all of the necessary symlinks are in place (refer to Appendix C)."

This appears not to be an easy task. Look at This post Looks like recompiling the kernel with the patch may be necessary in order to enable USB recognition of this modem. Sorry I can't be of more help. Maybe someone has an idea, since this will bump the post to the top.

1. You can´t see your Mandrake partitons in Windows. Windows does not support reading Linux partitions. The vfat partitions should have been designated a folder in the /mnt directory. Use the file manager to migrate to the /mnt directory and see if there are entries for the vfat partitions..probably named dos, dos1 etc... Open the file manager (which usually defaults to the home directory). Use the back button and move back to the root directory. You will see the mnt folder---click on this and see what folders are there for your other partitons.

If I understand your questions correctly; 1. You can´t see your Mandrake partitons in Windows. Windows does not support reading Linux partitions. 2. Did you set both fat32 partitions before installing Mandrake? If so, they should have been designated a folder in the /mnt directory. If not, post your entries in fstab for the two fat 32 partitions, so we can have a look. I am assuming that you are using the file manager to view the partitions?

I can't remmeber all the facts, as I do not have raid on my system, but this came up before in an earlier post. You need to set up the raid drives during the Mandrake install. What I seem to remember is that Linux will not see raid arrays set up by windows based software. Take a look at the following link, response #4. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/165944

That would do it. Just copying the extracted files did not make the cd bootable! Good detective work!

Please look at my comments on your other thread.

Again, opinions will differ, but even the current distros do not yet like writing to NTFS. But, if you have Mandrake 10 or Fedora Core II, then they should be able to read NTFS, but writing file to NTFS via Linux is still very much a new project. Taeuler's fstab sugggestions are correct, just try to replace reiserfs with ntfs for the filesystem (if it is NTFS) or vfat (if it is a fat32 partition). What distro and version of Linux are you using?

Two things. Well, three. Make sure that you boot the system with the cd burner if poossible. Older cdrom drives sometimes do not boot burned cd's correctly, which are burned in a newer cdrw drive. So, if you burned the cdr media on a cdrw and tried to boot the cd on an old cdrom drive, this can be an issue. Try using cdr media, if you have not already done so. Finally, to correctly burn iso images, do not burn them at the top speed rated for the cdrw drive. You need to burn them at 4X or at the most 8X speed. To properly burn iso images, you need to burn them at a slow speed, or they don't always take. Let us know if any of these are the issue.

The solution would be, of course, to store all the music files on one of the fat32 partition, then they can be accessed in Windows or Linux.