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So, you thought that it should be simple? The issue is with the nForce lan that is built in, as SoulNothing said. Some, who have experience wth this have no problem, but this is a frequently asked question with the nForce boards. The first issue, is how is the lan card set up to the internet, through a router, or directly to a usb cable modem? The second...save some time and go out and buy a Realtek or Linksys nic card and save yourself the headaches. They can be had for about $10-15 dollars at most stores. I had the same trouble with my nForce motherboard and pulled a Belkin nic card that I had out of the closet (it has a Realtek chipset in it). Fedora picked it up right off. Once you are up an running, then you can decide if you want to tackle getting the nForce nic to work. Refer to the link that SoulNothing gave you to get an idea if you feel comfortable enough to tackle this or not. Also I am curious, what motherboard is this?

Yes, you have to have a mirror site to link to. See the following guide; http://www.usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=8161

Depends on many things. The distro you are using, what you want to do (share computers, printing, remote desktop, what hardware you have.... Try the following link for starters; http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Networks Also, do a search on linux networking, or specific for your distro. Let everybody know what you are specifically looking to do and what distro/version you are using, so we can give some resources.

Depends on the voltage that the agp runs on your motherboard and the video card that you buy. Check your users manual and look at the folowing link. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9831279~mode=flat

From your other posts, it seems like the nvidia kernel install is failing. If you installed from init 3, you would have been able to boot to the console only - no GUI. This is what is suggested in nvidia installation instructions, then change the level back to 5 to test the gui. Look at the instructions and make sure that you made ALL the changes suggested to the X config file, not just the "nv" change, but the others as well. I think that Mandrake has the drivers available through the update feature. You may want to check this out.

I would agree. Try a live based cd and see which one seems to work, then consider that distro. On my Thinkpad, Mandrake 9 ran well and I currently have Lindows (or is it Linspire) Laptop Edition runnng very well on it. Neither work with my modem, a Lucent AMR softmodem, but the nic is fine. While the video consideration is the most important (actually getting it going), so is the internet access. If you are using a modem to connect to the internet, make sure that you determine that it is Linux compatible. Many are not, although the support is getting better. If you have a nic card, this should not be an issue.

Actually, of "oldsourcing."

shadowmatrix, did you install the NVIDIA drivers from init3 or 5? Also, if I remember correctly, you need the kernel source installed for the drivers to refer to. This may be why the true nvidia drivers are not working, Right now, you are running from the original "nv" driver, not the "nvidia" one. Refer to the nvidia directions again on these requirements.

What OS's do you have installed right now? Was Windows pre-installed on your system? Do you have the Compaq rescue disks? Can you get the Mandrake install disks that your friend used to assist? What version of Mandrake do you currently have running?

Post what distro and version of Linux that you are using, as well as which driver you used, so that we can tell what kernel etc...that you are using. Did you install by source, or rpm? Some changes may need to be made to XFree86Config for your distro - such as changing the video driver setting from nv to nvidia, make sure that glx is loading, and so on.

Curious, how did you download the dvd snapshots? By jigdo? I'm having a heck of a time with jigdo-lite getting all the packages correctly to build the dvds. Seems like all the sites are not sync'ed well. Yes, I have the latest version of jigdo, using sarge to do the process.

Originally posted by soulnothing: Quote: mnt/cdrom dvd drive JLMS dvd drive 16x mnt/cdrom cd rw drive Cendyne 48X Cd rw You have both drives set to the same mount point? I am so used to doing this by hand...I'll have to look at the hardware manager in Mandrake 10. What does /etc/fstab say about the two drives?

Should be something like; alias scsi_hostadapter1 aic7xxx: 00:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m (rev 02) alias eth1 tg3: 03:08.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5700 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12) alias scsi_hostadapter2 aacraid: 05:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec RAID subsystem HBA (rev 01) alias scsi_hostadapter1 aic7xxx: 05:04.1 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01) alias scsi_hostadapter4 megaraid alias scsi_hostadapter5 megaraid alias scsi_hostadapter6 megaraid alias scsi_hostadapter7 megaraid alias scsi_hostadapter8 megaraid 02:00.0 RAID bus controller: American Megatrends Inc. MegaRAID (rev 20) alias eth0 eepro100: 04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)

DapperDan is right on the money on this. Wine takes some getting used to. Crossover is very good and easy to run, out of the box. I have it on my systems and it runs Microsoft Office 2000 very well. Macromedia MX will also work. Of course, it is not free. If you want to play with "free" Wine, then I found the following site, which is very helpful to get an idea of how it all works. Frank's Corner also gives you a good idea of what apps. may work and which will take some work to get going; http://frankscorner.org/

I'll take a stab at the sound. Does this motherboard have onboard sound? If so, and you are using an add-on card for audigy, disable the sound for the onboard card in the bios. If not, alsa may be disabled by default. Type alsamixer in a terminal window and see if the volumes are set up. If not, set them all the way up. See if this has any effect. You can refer to the following thread; http://gooeylinux.org/forums/index.php?s...entry3392 In terms of the dvd and cdrw, how are the jumpers set up on each drive? master..slave? Do either work in any other OS? Some cdrw and dvd drives insist on being set to master. Do the drives show up in dmesg? As what? hdc..hdd..etc.. I don't use Gnome, so I am going to stick to the basics of how the drives are/should be set up.

That's why I'm thinking that one of his win programs got caught in the partitioning process. So, it's the win.ini of an application that is giving the message, not windows in general.

The problem most likely is that one or more of your windows programs got caught in the partitioning process. Win XP has a habit of leaving some files at the end of the partition. Before installing any Linux distro, or changing/resizing your partitions, you should run defrag in Windows first. If you ran "analyze" in the defrag utility before the install, you probably would have seen files scattered toward the end of the drive's partition. When you ran the partitioning program in RedHat, did you have free space on the drive that you claimed, or did you tell redHat to use remaining free/unclaimed space on the Windows partition? What program are you trying to run when this message appears? Also, what other problems with Windows have you seen?

Give us a little more information about the install of RedHat. 1. Is Windows XP on a NTFS partition or fat32? 2. Is RedHat installed in the same drive as XP? Or, do you have two physical drives on the system, one for XP and one foe RedHat? 3. Did you set up a partition ahead of time with a partitioning utility, such as PartitionMagic, or did you use RedHat's install partitioning utility during the install? 4/. Most importantly, did you defrag your XP partition(s) BEFORE installing RedHat? 5. Finally, what system is the install on? Is it a HP or Compaq system?

The ATI are a general headache overall in any distro of linux. Take a look at the following thread, especially toward the bottom posts about installing the drivers. This should give you some information to start. http://www.linuxcompatible.org/thread26946-1.html

You have a couple of options, assuming you have 1 drive in the system, which Mandrake resides on and you want to start from scratch. If you have XP installed with Mandrake and want to keep XP, see option #3, but take care! WARNING: IF YOU HAVE A COMPAQ OR HP COMPUTER, WHERE WINDOWS OR ANOTHER OS IS ALREADY PRE-INSTALLED, TAKE CARE, AS THESE SYSTEMS HAVE A SMALL HIDDEN PARTITION WITH RECOVERY DATA ON THEM, WHICH MAY ALSO HAVE BIOS INFORMATION. SEE THE HP/COMPAQ WEBSITE FOR DETAILS. MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE A COPY OF PARTITONMAGIC AND THE KEY CODE AVAILABLE IF YOU WIPE THE WHOLE DRIVE. OTHERWISE, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REINSTALL PARTITONMAGIC OR USE IT AFTER A REINSTALL. IF YOU HAVE RECOVERY DISKS FOR PM, YOU SHOULD BE FINE WORKING FROM THE FLOPPIES, BUT YOU WILL STILL NEED THE ACTIVATION KEY TO RE-INSTALL PM TO THE HARD DRIVE LATER ON. 1. When PartitionMagic offers to fix the partition, choose no. See if you get it to open. You will see the partition marked as "bad." If you get to this point (assuming that you do want to wipe the partition/drive and start over) try to format the partiton or drive as fat32. This may fail. I have not tried it, as I don't want to wipe Mandrake 10, Well, not just yet. 2. Use the drive partitoning software for your make of hard drive to re-format the drive. Seagate and Maxtor, for example, have these utilities that will wipe and format the drive for you. 3. If you want to just try to uninstall Mandrake, use the install disk #1 to remove the Mandrake partition. At the command prompt, when the first install cd boots, type in "expert" (without the quotes)and proceed though the install process until you reach the partitioning window and tell Mandrake to remove the partition. Allow it to do so, then back out of the install. Then try Partitionmagic and see if it recognizes the drive now, wihtout errors. BEFORE DOING THIS (#3), BACK UP AND DATA THAT YOU NEED, IN ALL YOUR EXISTING PARTITIONS, IN CASE SOMETHING GOES WRONG. THIS DID WORK FOR ME IN A PRIOR RELEASE OF MANDRAKE, BUT DUE TO THE CHANGES IN THE PARTITONING SCHEME IN MANDRAKE THAT CAUSED THIS TO HAPPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE, THERE MAY BE ISSUES, SINCE MANDRAKE PARTITIONING APPARENTLY CAUSED AN OVERLAPPING OF AJACENT PARTITON(S) IN THE FIRST PLACE. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT YOU WILL CORRUPT THE NTFS PARTITION, IF XP IS INSTALLED ON THE FIRST PARTITION.

Are you at a command line, logged in as root?

Maybe Geenberg can write a little howto! I looked at these sites, since I have a dlink DWL-G650 for my Thinkpad. I did a little searching on this card. This is not easy stuff! Uses MADwifi drivers, only available at cvs. I'll be attempting this on a Lindows Laptop edition (Debian) install, which is currently on my system. I am going to attempt an install on my Thinkpad (this may take a while) and will post any results. The issue seems to be the age of the drivers compared to the recent distros. I'll watch this thread and see how you all do. We should all write Dlink and request updated drivers!

The idea is to notify RoadRunner to put notice that this is happening. This way, they may be able to assist in identifying the issue, even if at their end. Also, I wonder if this is on wireless, which could be any of his neighbors! Or, anyone in the neighborhood/cruising the same, who hacked in. What troubles me is that the person may have some knoledge of Linux-of course, they may have just been snooping around. This points to assuring the need to have your system protected, even plugging some of the holes with XP updates.

This sure sounds like a Win XP exploit. Someone is using Remote Desktop to access his computer. I bet he has cable internet connection. If so, he needs to disconnect his computer(s) from the connection and also call the cable company to report the intrusion. They may have some troubleshooting that he can implement, as well. For example, RoadRunner has free firewall software that he can download, if he has this service. If he has a wireless connection, then someone in the immediate neighborhood could be hacking his connection.If so, he needs to secure the wireless system, or revert to cable only and see if the intrusion stops.

Actually, this is a good question. Did you ask the question, or search for a thread on the k3b forum? The last I read, an xcopy like feature is not available yet, but I would assume that you need to use the proper media size dvd-r to the one that you are backing up (assuming that your drive supports the larger size media). Otherwise, copy the dvd to a directory (if it is just a data dvd) on the hard drive and burn 2 single copies that match your media size on the dvd. Also, if there are any hidden files on the dvd, then make sure you enable this option in k3b, to include these files.