Dapper Dan

I know thats gotta bite a big one! I wish I could help you! If it were me, I'd just try a different distro to clarify whether or not its some sort of weird Fedora/kernel/hardware mismatch you're experiencing. Mepis would be a good candidate. Its very easy to install and has excellent hardware detection. Good Luck, and please let us help out if we can...

Hi Sunra and welcome! I've never used that card with Core 2 but have with Core 1 and it worked flawlessly after configuring it, which was pretty simple. First, lets check what card you actually have. Is it an 8410 Classic Gold like this one? Did you configure it from system-config-network? A friendly word of advice when moving from Windows: Linux will not make it easy for you to move from Windows since there are great differences in the two operating systems. It takes patience and perseverance to learn anything new, but in the end it will be well worth it. If you want Linux to work for you, it's up to you to learn Linux. That's where we can help.

That is cool! Thanks for the link!

Another bump...

I posted a couple of more times about the problem I'm having running nautilus as root on my thread Suse "9.1 Professional." It was making me crazy because I couldn't find any of the posts I'd made! With danleff's help, I eventually figured out there was a "page two" link inconspicuouly placed way below the first page on the right! In case anyone else other than me is confused about this, here's a link to page two of that thread...

Hi Jonathon, and welcome! If you're serious about moving away from Windows, all of us here will be more than willing to help. Having said that, you must be prepared for the truth. It's kind of like deciding to take the red pill The truth is, you will have to have patience, and may need to spend a few bucks in order to purchase hardware that will work with Linux, which will of course also continue to work for Windows if you decide to dual boot. On your Lucent modem: I'm coming up pretty empty while searching google for it along with Linux. Most "winmodems" are not real modems and it is difficult to get even some of them working with Linux. Check this page out for possible information... If someone here knows how to get Jonathon's winmodem working, please let him know! Otherwise, if you cannot get it to work with "drivers" I'm unaware of, I highly recommend going with an external modem, most of which will work with Linux. I know for a fact that the Actiontec 56k v92 serial modem works perfectly with Linux out of the box without any configuration except for setting up your dialer, kppp, so that might be one to consider. I also understand that the Best Data V92 external modem also works. Both are likely to give a performance and reliability boost over an internal pci modem. These two modems WILL get you on the Internet. I'm pretty sure danleff will have helpful information on your NVIDIA NForce 2.

I'm afraid this one is over my head, sorry. danleff would you have any ideas on this?

Hi BeardedSkull and welcome! Can you give us hardare info? Like are you using a router or directly connected to a modem? DSL? 56K? Cable? You might have a port blocked somewhere, or your distro sn't communicating with an external DSL modem etc. Did you use Linux before and were able to connect with your ISP? Are you dual booting? If so, is everything working under Windows?

IceWM is a good choice for windows manager/DE if ubuntu offers it. vi rules...

Hi Syd Bat, and welcome! At this point, I would recommend going with a "live cd" distro such as Knoppix, Morphix, or Mepis, so you can get a good feel for Linux WITHOUT having to install it to your Hard drive and risk damage to your existing Windows installation. A live CD is a complete Linux OS which runs off of the CD and will have no effect on your hard drive. Then, if you like it, and whether or not it, "finds" all of your hardware properly, you can then install it to your hard drive, or go with one of the main line distros. Just download the ISO file to your computer and then burn the image to a cd at no greater than 8x. I'd do a mid5sum check also to make sure you didn't get a corrupted download which does happen. In fact, you can burn one of these live CDs and hand them out to your clients for evaluation! They will be impressed!

fangorn. I'm a big fan of the Orinoco Gold Card since it is one of the first PCMCIA cards that worked with Linux. You really can't go wrong with it, if you can be satisfied with 802.11b, which in my opinion, is PLENTY fast enough. I've had it working under Fedora Core one, Morphix Gnome 4.1, and most recently, Mepis RC4. It, along with just about any 802.11b router, should work as well as you would want without too much of a configuration hassel.

It's been a while since I've had to do it, but if you put the install cd back in and choose "upgrade" rather than install, it will take you through the same process except it won't install any packages. This way, you can retry to install the bootloader correctly. Tell it that Windows is on hda1, which is where it usually is. Just take your time with it and you'll figure it out. Good Luck, and let us know how you come out.

fangorn, as I told you, I'm not a big fan of Mandrake from 9.1 till 10, but am very big on Mandrake 9.0. It's very stable from the get go, and the install goes without difficulty. If going on the Internet is all you're wanting to do, maybe it's the way to go. A big plus is that it's an older version, and may like older hardware better. Here's a good fast mirror where to get the ISOs to make the two installation disks if you're interested. Download the bottom two before the md5sums which is last...

I pasted that URL into firefox and it comes back, "not found." It may be down temporarily or permanently. I've had apt-get repositories disappear on me the same way...

I don't know if this will help so take it for what it's worth. I just booted my Fedora Core 2 box, and the next thing after, "Remounting root file system in read write mode:" is enabling swap partition. Maybe it's hanging trying to mount your swap. I can't imagine why this would be a problem, but if it were me, I'd get out the installation cd disk one, and boot into rescue mode. It will explain how as you go along. Then mount the partition that your root directory is on and do: vi /etc/fstab [enter] And see if something is screwy looking with the way your swap partition is listed. If it looks ok, I'd comment it out, that is, press insert, and arrow down and put a # sign in front of your swap listing, press ESC then : then x and press enter to exit vi and then see if you can get it to boot without the swap. I may be totally off base, I'm just saying how I might try to approach the problem if it were mine. Sorry I couldn't help more...

Bump for danleff

I have always had trouble with up2date. Sometimes it will just sit there forever, and won't download anything. I don't use it anymore, and use apt-get rpm to update my Fedora boxes. If you're using Core 2, see this "How To" to get apt-get going if interested.

huggybare you may want to check this out. BugLamp, please explain to us in detail why Linux sucks. Or is your only reason for saying so because its learning curve is too "icy" for you?

Welcome!

Open a terminal and become root and go: chmod 644 /etc/yum.conf [enter] Then: chown root /etc/yum.conf [enter] Still as root, open it with gedit... gedit /etc/yum.conf [enter] Then edit the file and see if you can now save it.

fangorn, I think danleff can help you with this. Wait till he gets on the board, and I'm sure hell be able to point you in the right direction.

fangorn, how are you presently getting on the Internet with Windows 95? Are you plugged directly in with a cable? 56k or DSL? Are you using a pc card with a router, or directly connected to a modem? You may also want to go with a real minimal fast browser. I would recommend links-graphic. It's not as full featured as Mozilla or even Firefox, but it gets up and going very quickly and is lightening fast on the Internet. For mail, you may want to look at Balsa or Sylpheed which I believe are already included with Mandrake 10. All of these are smaller packages and use up less resources than the major Linux browsers and mail programs.

Hi fangorn and welcome! I don't like Mandrake 10 for a variety of reasons, although Mandrake in general has positives for your particular application. With Mandrake, you can truly do a minimal install that will come within the limitations of your drive. A lot of the other distros have a harder time doing that. Since you only have a 1.35 GB Hard Drive, I wouldn't waste time trying to create a home partition. I would just go with a root partition and a swap space, consequently, I'd let Mandrake do the partitioning for you. Mandrake has the most intuitive and easy to use partitioning utility I've ever used, so you shouldn't have any problems. When you start adding packages, pay attention to how much drive space the install will need. Mandrake also includes IceWM, which is a minimal and very fast Windows manager/D.E.. The IceWM interface is also a lot like Windows 95! I use IceWM every day. Although Gnome and KDE are very good D.E.s, they may be too bloated for your box but install them if you can manage it. Also, since you're new to this, be prepared to maybe have to try a couple of times before you get it right. Since you aren't concerned about keeping anything on your drive you have nothing to worry about! You will learn a lot in the process. I recommend using ext3 or reiserfs as your file system. What hardware will you be running?

Yes Mwengwe, given all of your abundant expertise and knowledge of every one of the 200 plus Linux distros, I'm sure I speak for everyone here at Linuxcompatible in thanking you for enlightening us. You can now return to your virus scans, illegal operations, disk checks, defrags, fatal errors, spy programs, McAffee and Norton virus definitions, paper thin security and blue jeans with Bill Gates hand perpetually grasping for the wallet in its back pocket, and wallow in the warm and fuzzy belief that you've shared with us your profound and well reasoned assessments of our preferred OS.

Mandrake 10 uses the 2.6 kernel with the 2.4 kernel optional. It sounds as if the Linuxant "driver" is somehow misdiagnosing what kernel you're using. Beyond that, I'm afraid I wouldn't know. Sorry.