Dapper Dan

Yes, Core 2 has built in USB detection, but it's simple to get Core 1 doing the same thing. Here's a good How To on getting Core 1 to see USB devices.

Sorry for putting it in three parts, but I was determined I was going to discover why it wouldn't let me post. Origonally I used: lsmod (pipe) more [enter] to... /sbin/lsmod (pipe) more [enter] The same as you would type it in a terminal. For a reason I cannot fathom, it wouldn't let me post it with the pipe in there! Go figure...

modprobe usb-storage [enter] You'll get.."command not found." So you'll have to do: /sbin/modprobe usb-storage [enter] ...instead. It'll be like that with a couple of commands here. From beginning to end, this will take about 10 to 15 minutes. I hope this helps.

If you try it, be aware that if you do it as SU, and not signed in as root, you'll have to put a /sbin in front of some of what's here. Fore instance, if you are su, and you have to go...

I keep getting an error when I try to post here! I'll try this as an edit.... This is NUTS! I can post what you see here, but I can't post a reply to this thread!!?? I'll try it as a quote... THAT WON"T WORK EITHER!!??? Why do I keepm getting an error when I try to post to this thread, but I can post what you see here!!?? ;(

According to this, your modem should work fine with Linux. Have you contacted their support to see what they say? They clearly list that their modem works with Linux, so they should help you. Are there any directions or drivers included with the modem that have to do with Linux? This thread may shed some light. Beyond this, I'm afraid I'd just be guessing. I've never had any experience with USB modems at all.

It sounds to me that you've done everything right! It must be a hardware issue with the sata drive. I'm afraid I can't help you here, as I know nothing about sata. Just guessing here, it could be an issue that your drive is having with the live cd's. There might be a regular disro out there that you would be able to install to hard drive that may not give errors. Have a look at this. I'm sorry I couldn't help more..

Koba I'm sure you'll want to hear from as many users as possible, so I'll also give you my take on your questions. Quote: -If you get used to one distro, can you easily pick up any other distro without any hassle? Or is it a whole new learning-curve each time? After using one distro a while it is far easier to pick up and understand another. Many things remain the same. From the command line, hardly anything changes. It's kind of like being a really good Chevrolet mechanic and having doubts about whether you could also "wrench" on a Buick or a Pontiac. Many things on the surface will appear the same but a little different, but the engine and drive train will be almost exactly the same. It may take you a little getting used to, but your basic knowledge and understanding of the engine and drive train will make the transition fairly painless. That's why having a good understanding of the basics of the command line is key and vital. Quote: -Does anyone else feel like they are being left behind up to date on the best distribution? How often do people upgrade their distribution? I don't feel "left behind", but rather know and anticipate that with each new update or version, significant improvements in apps and programs should likely make my job easier and less time consuming. The same could be said for Windows too couldn't it? They also make changes and improvements in their apps and programs for the same reasons. On the other hand, once a box is configured to do a job, and it does it to your satisfaction, there is little if any reason to change, except for security and bug fixes. I have two boxes at work running Mandrake 9.0. At present, there's no need to upgrade them to Mandrake 10 because both are doing what I want them to do. There are users out there who are still using Red hat 7.3, and see little need to upgrade. Quote: -How easy is it to transfer downloaded applications across distributions (eg transfering rpms across using a CD)? It all depends on from what to what. There are mainly three ways of installing files. RPM, Debian and Source. All three have their proponents and detractors. There are advantages and disadvantages to each. And even though the package systems may be the same, their own version of the file will likely be different. If you're using RH 9, you will also be familiar with Suse and Mandrake. If Debian, then Knoppix and Mepis. If Source, then Slackware and Gentoo. Many if not most have package management systems to make installing and uninstalling packages easier. There is apt-get RPM, apt-get Debian and portage for Gentoo. All are designed to make your life easier. Linux is not for everyone. The advantages are, Microsoft can no longer keep their hands in your wallet, you don't have to worry much about viruses, and you have a far more robust operating system that you don't have to defrag and scandisk, not to mention Norton and MCaffee which you will endlessly pay for. The disadvantage is, you necessarily must know more about computing, and must spend more time learning it, so you can tailor it to your specific needs. I for one believe the advantages of using Linux far outweigh the disadvantages. I for will never go back to using Windows! I hope you will stay with the rest of us who have taken the red pill.

Burn the ISO's at 8x, no faster. When your computer boots, you should see something on the screen at some point like "For setup press F2" or something like that. Do whatever it says to access the BIOS. There are issues witht the Fedora Core 2 partition manager that danleff can tell you more about. There is a problem there with it and XP. See this post for more info. If you can get past this partitioning issue, I think you'll be in good shape. Also, once everything is installed and all the hardware issues are settled, get back with me on how to set up apt-get RPM on your box. It will make things MUCH easier!

I have fallen victim as well and didn't even know it! I tried to be conservative, and only use 5 gigs for the / partition for Core2. This has turned out not to be enough for my experimentation. I then tried to icrease it's size with QTparted, and got the same error! QTparted won't offer me the chance to use it to resize my Core2 partition, so I guess I'll just have to install it over from scratch. Should I use QTparted to delete that partition and create another, then install Fedora Core 2 to it? Or should I use the Core 2 partitioning tool again?

Just had some interesting things happen with my USB stick. I've been playing around with the new Kanotix with the 2.6 kernel which, like most Knoppix based live CD's, will let you create a persistent home directory somewhere so your configuration files will be saved. You just add home=/dev/### to the end of the boot script and Kanotix will use that as /home. I've never been crazy about the fat32 file system, which is what comes standard on most USB memory devices, and am really afraid of Fat 32 since my disaster earlier this year loosing a bunch of very important files and documents that were saved in a fat32 partition. When you create this persistent home directory on a usb stick (/dev/sda1) Kanotix/Knoppix says it wants to format it with ext2! Hurray! Now I can easily format USB sticks with ext2 rather than fat32. I ran into a minor problem though. While I was searching for some cool Debian wallpapers in Kanotix, and storing them in this persistent home directory, I ran across one I really wanted to use on my regular Fedora Core 1 desktop. When I booted into Core 1 and tried to acess the USB stick, I got errors and it wouldn't mount! Silly me! I quickly figured out I had to then change my /etc/fstab to reflect that /dev/sda1 was now using ext2 rather than fat32. After rebooting I was then able to mount the usbstick and retrieve that wallpaper! God I love Linux!!

See the post on USBsticks formatted in EXT2.

I presume when you say you couldn't get the card working, it was with the distro you tried before? Which version of Fedora will(are) you use(ing), Core 1 or Core 2? According to this site, there are drivers for your card and it should work. I would imagine the drivers are also available with both Cores. If the Fedora install doesn't find and feed it a driver, I'd try the one from the above link. If you can't get your card working, $10.00 to $15.00 at your local computer store will buy you a NIC that will. I have several NICs and have never run into a problem with Linux not recognizing any of them. A Linksys NIC is always a good choice. I believe it uses the tulip drivers which come standard with most distros, and Fedora will find and configure it right away, should you decide to buy one.

danleff is far more knowledgable about these things than me, but it's possible you're having problems with the Live cd itself. How and at what speed did you burn it? The best Live cd I've found for hardware detection is Kanotix Bug Hunter. I know it's a nutty sounding distro, but it really is a very good Knoppix mod. You might want to try Kanotix to see if you get the same errors, if the problem is not with Suse CD itself. If you decide to try Kanotix, don't burn any faster than 8x.

I've been reading it over, and he is very concise and clear. I would recommend anyone who is interested in Linux read this. It has invaluable information for new users in plain language, and clarifies a lot of information, (and misinformation) for us mid-level users!

The thing I noticed about Core2 over Core 1 is that, during install, Core 2 recognizes and mounts my usb stick and presents it on the desktop for access just like a cdrom. My suspicion is that if you installed Core 2 with the external DVD device plugged into a USB port, and Core 2 didn't see it at install, you may be out of luck. Have you checked with Liteon support to see if they have a solution? Just throwing out a stupid idea here that might be worth a try... With a DVD in the drive and as root: mkdir /mnt/dvdrom [enter] mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/dvdrom [enter] mount /mnt/dvdrom [enter] cd /mnt/dvdrom [enter] ls [enter]

Just ordered it too. Maybe now I'll get to finally install and look at Suse!

Suse 9.1 is a good distro. I would keep and learn it. Then if you feel the need to explore, try some others to see if there's one more to your liking. All Linux distros are servers/clients. Some lend themselves more toward one than the other, and that goes to the essence of why Linux is such a great operating system, configurability! Linux can be almost anything you reasonably want it to be, as far as operating systems go.

Originally posted by Yoken: Quote: 1) Whats the easiest way of converting some of my NTFS free space to FAT32 so that i can create a new partition where Linux and windows can read/write to ? I would think the easiest way to do this would be to just create a folder in your existing Linux partition that Windows boxes can have access to. Just create a shared folder. mkdir /shared [enter] Then: chmod -R 666 /shared You will have to remain in Linux so Windows boxes can have access to it though. If you really need a whole partition for shared folders I would buy or borrow a copy of Partition Magic to do this. First, resize your NTFS partition to create the space you want for your shared folders, then format it as Fat32, also with Partition Magic. (There is possible danger in this so be very familiar and careful with what your doing here before you actually do it!!) Also, be sure to back up valuable files before any partitioning adjustments. Quote: 2) How do i get it right to have read-write permissions on the shared folders ? Once you have created the fat32 partition, boot to Linux and mount it. Make a note of where that fat32 partition is created. Let's say your shared file folder is at hda7. First, you must create a mount point for it. you can put it anywhere, but at /mnt is the most common location. As root go: mkdir /mnt/shared [enter] ..or whatever you wish to call your newly created shared files location. Then go: mount /dev/hda7 mnt/shared [enter] Then, you have to mount /mnt/shared itself.. mount /mnt/shared You should now be able to enter your shared folder partition using nautilus or konqueror, and create files there. To change the permissions so everyone can read/write to files placed in /mnt/shared, still as root go: chmod 666 -R /mnt/shared [enter] It can be a security risk to have an entire partition that everyone can read and write to, so you may want to set permissions for each folder in /mnt/shared rather than having read/write for the whole partiton. You can set the permissions easily enough for each folder with Nautilus as root. Quote: All the shared folders give full control to all users on the network.. but that doesn't seem to fix it ?? I'm not familiar with Windows now at all, but I would think there would be a freebe FTP or SSH GUI uploader/downloader available for Windows for your other Windows boxes to have access to your Linux server and those shared files. You might also want to have a look at samba, which I know nothing about. I must clarify, this is how I would approach it, so please seek out other advice and information..

I've had problems with Gaim trying to use Yahoo Messenger. The last release kept saying my password was invalid. I did a RPM-Update with apt-get rpm, there was a fix in there and now it's working fine. What distro are you using? I would make sure I had the latest updated version.

Good to hear you are going to stick with it! Actually Mandrake has an easier solution than downloading and installing .EXEs. It's urpmi. At a terminal as root go: urpmi gnome-desktop [enter] You'll need some other things to run Gnome, but that is just an example of how urpmi works. I would put the first cd back in and just add Gnome as an upgrade. Don't overlook IceWM! That's what I use. It is the fastest cleanest, most configurable and rock solidly stable DE I've ever used, and I've used most of them. When you're doing that upgrade to add Gnome desktop, also check "Other desktops". It's the one at the very end there and will include IceWM. If you like IceWM, also do as root: urpmi icepref [enter] It is a great configurator for IceWM. After they are installed, IceWM and Gnome will both show up under "session" when you are at the KDE "sign in manager." Just put a check beside the one you wanna look at and enter after entering your username and password.

I was impressed with Mdk 10 for a while, until I really started looking it over. Though it is miles ahead of 9.1 and 9.2, still it's just not as refined as 9.0 was when it came out..in my opinion of course. I ran into similar little problems with Mdk 10 and decided Fedora Core two was far more refined and finished, though it has a few problems of it's own. I would just call up the utilities with drakconf from a terminal until an update squares the problem away. You might want to try running the menu configuration utility and see if maybe there's something screwy there. I'm not really sure what those errors mean. If it's not a problem for you, you could also just do a re-install. That's one good thing about Mandrake: Their install is as easy and smooth as it comes in the Linux world, and even easier than Windows for that matter.

Then it is compatible with the Orinoco Classic Gold card which is 802.11b. One of these cards can be had for around $49.00, check it on Froogle. Unless they've changed something, and I don't think they have, this card works with your router. Your other choices are to try an compile a kernel for the Netgear 511 which is 802.11g, or wait and hope someone will create drivers for your Linksys. As a matter of information: I use 802.11b on a laptop, and with 2 PCs using the Netgear MA311. All are plenty fast for me..

To be honest, I think you're screwed on the sound card. After googling your card and Linux, I come up with nothing. The hardware list at the Mandrake site doesn't even list it. XMMS will get straightened out once you've got a working sound card. Any time anyone switches from Windows to Linux, chances are they are going to be left with a few "boat anchors" (hardware that will likely never work with Linux), and that's one of the swap offs of using a superior operating system. Seems like you've dived in though! You sound just like me! I've always thought it best to burn all your bridges so retreat is not an option! To get things moving for you, I'd go out to your favorite computer store and get a Sound Blaster. Most of them will work with Linux and are reasonably priced. Check the compatibility here first before purchasing though. I know where you are right now Mervo. I'm not going to tell you it will be smooth sailing cause it won't! There will be times when you'll want to give up and say it's just too hard. That's always the case with anything new, and is certainly true of anything worth while! Stick with it, and don't hesitate to ask questions. Most everyone here is patient and will try to get you through problems. Above all, remember that Google is your best friend when it comes to Linux! There is almost always an answer out there to your problem if you learn how to ask the question.

The log in screen is the same as GDM. If you are getting that far, tell me what happens if you try this. When you get to GDM, choose "failsafe" as your session instead of Gnome. You'll wind up with an Xterm in the lower right hand side. As $ go: gnome-session [enter] And tell me what happens. Also, did you install KDE? If so, does it work if you choose that as your session desktop environment?