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I purchased a netgear wg311 wireless card, but I have not been able to install the prism gt driver. I am running Suse 9.0, with kernel 2.4.21. Are there any ohter drivers that will work?

The way I would format the harddrive is this: hda1-32M /boot hda2-512M /swap hda3- as needed hda4- as needed Install the os'es on 3 and 4, and put as much space on each as you wnat, the installer for each of the os'es should have a partioner. Install the first distro on hda3 and let it install the bootloader on hda1. When you install the second one have it write a boot floppy.(Most distro's will overwrite grub or lilo on the boot drive if you just install SuSe and REdhat both did for me). Boot to the distro which has it's bootloader on hda1 and go to the /grub folder and fild the file grub.conf and add an enter for the second distro so both boot off hda1. It should like like this: title= (your distribution) root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-(version) root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc real_root=/dev/hda4 initrd /initrd(version) the initrd and kernel version you will need to put in will be the same.

What distribution and kernel are using? Regardless, here is some advice on configuring and compiling a kernel. Be careful when doing this, and consider cheking other documentation, this can hose your system. Try Code: cd /usr/src/linux-<version> or, if the kernel source is not there try: Code: cd lib/src/<version> then once in the kernel directory Code: make menuconfig Make menuconfig is easier to work with than make config, I think. You can also do make xconfig Then go to loadable module support. This brings up five options. Select Code: Enable loadable module supportModule unloadingAutomatic kernel module loading Select field with "y" when the bracket is highlighted. After configuring the kernel, I think you will have to compile it. Here is a helpful guide on confiuring and compiling a 2.4.x kernel. If you bootloader is grub instead of lilo edit grub.conf, either in /etc/grub.conf, or /boot/grub.conf, depends on the distro. Add these lines title=<your distribution> root (hd0,0) --if you have it installed on hda0 kernel (hd0,0)/<version> root=/dev/<hd title> This is how I have my grub.conf from grub-0.93 Then try doing Code: make && make install from within the madwifi folder.

I finally abandoned Suse and got a working Gentoo install. The atheros driver built perfectly, I think, but the card is not configured. When i do Code: /sbin/ifconfig ath0 The card shows up although it is not configured. I tried doing Code: net-setup ath0 but net-setup seems to be a program from the live-cd. What is the best way setup the card. The atheros driver is installed.

Here's a tip Admiral LSD had for me: Quote: As for an internet connection through a Windows XP box, provided the XP box is the machine hosting the connection you can simply use XPs Internet Connection Sharing (activated in the property sheet for the internet connection concerned) to create a gateway the Gentoo box can use to download it's packages. Just enable ICS on the XP box and use the net-setup program on the Gentoo LiveCD (or if you're using a different distro, whatever tool it uses to set up network connections) to use the XP box as it's gateway. I do this myself and it works a treat.

I have a wireless internet connection on my Windows XP machine, and I would like to share a connection with my Linux box through a wired LAN. When I set the network up I used the "This computer connects directly to the internet. My other computers connect through this computer." option,and set the wireless card as the one I use for the connection, the wired card does not have an internet connection sharing option. What's the best way to share the connection through my wired LAN card. My Linux box runs a Suse-Gentoo daul boot, if that's any help. Thanks

I recently installed gentoo, which is great, but I've had some trouble getting kde setup. The emerge on kde worked, and I can get xwindows up, but i'm having trouble starting kde.When I run startx kde opens, but gives the error: Quote: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation. Where do I check kdeinit, or any other emerged package for that matter, and with respect to kdeinit am I simply checking for its pressence, some configuration? I have the useflags set to "USE="qt kde -gnome -gtk", and XSESSIONS="kde-3.1.3", which is the version in my /etc/X11/Sessions/ displays . Also does configuring kdm automaticly run kde on boot?

The XP box isn't hosting the connection, but connecting through a wireless network. I'm trying to use wired lan on both XP and Linux to share the connection. Since this has become about ICS on XP I thought the Windows Forum might would be a better place to continue this.

I just configured a Lynksys lne100tx, and ran into two problems after setting it up Suse. Fisrt I plan to use this to connect to the internet through a window xp machine, which didn't work, the second problem is that on reboot, Suse hangs, when it tries to start the network card. I also tried booting to a gentoo live cd which failed whil configuring devices. I would like to use the internet connection for a stage 1 gentoo install. Should I just pull the card, and put it back in, or is there a less brute force way?

I put the card in a different slot and it works. Thanks. Suse9.0

Thanks for the help, I'll try them out Friday afternoon once I have Gentoo up agian. I started over with the intention of doing a stage 1, but I found that the bootstrap script needs an internet connection, which I don't have on Linux box. If you know how to copy the necessary files to my Gentoo partion, through my Suse partion, or if you know how to connect to the internet through a windows xp machine I would greatly appriciate the help with a stage 1. If not I'll go back to stage 3, which is still great. Thanks

I recently updated Suse 8.2 personal to 9.0 and lost some software packages in the procces. I didn't need most of the packages but I was using kdevelop2.1. It was oringinally installed with 8.0 Professional. I have not been able to install the package from Yast, I have only been able to add software from the 9.0 disk.

I checked the build directory in the kernel, it is a link, to an unkown destination, which also has the lock symbol onthe icon. This is the state immidesatly after installing the scource. I replaced the build directory, although it is empty; I still get the same error as before. Do I need to create a directory, or file called " .config ' " in the build directory?

I tried to do the make again after installing the kernel source from the CD, but i still got the same error. One other possible problem I noticed was that the makefile couldn't be altered, to specify the kernel location, instead of the default, which attemps to determine the kernel location. I also a Redhat 9 partion I could try this on but I can't seem to see the contents of the madwifi folder.

One possible solution is to use a character array instead of what you have quoted above. Your code would look something like this: Quote: char mystring[20] = "Hello there'; cout << mystring << endl; If you only want to output the code, not store it in a variable you would only need to do; cout << "Hello there";. The header file shouldn't be the problem. Also, did you get kDevelop off your Mandrake CD's, or another source, over the courese of upgrading my Suse distribution my copy was deleted and I haven't to reinstall it off the old install disks.

I read through the README, but I could not change the pathname from its default. Also the REAdME said after configureing to do: make. I tried this on Makefile.inc and madwifi-20030802, both returned the error "***No rule to make target '/lib/modules/2.4.21-99-smp/build/.config '. Stop ". The pathname it returned is that of the kernel. Does anyone have an idea on how to do this make?

I would like to update the kernel to version 2.6, but I don't know where to put the updated files. I have heard that the kernel is generally in usr/src/linux, although that directory does not exist in Suse 9.0. Does anyone know where the kernel is located in Suse 9.0

Thanks. I downloaded the file, although I'm not sure how to build the file.

For your Nvidia problems go to: http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp and download: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.mun To install the package you need to be logged on as root, and be in a character based mode; do this by booting with "safe settings" If you don't have experience character based you should put the file in the directory you want it in with your graphical interfacce. Once you have booted to a character based inter face go to the directory where you have the driver you will need to make it executable with the command chmod 755 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.mun -then run the program with the command ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5328-pkg1.mun - after this you will need to run sax2 to configure the drivers. I don't know what your experience with a character based boot is , but just in case you havn't used it before open files with "cd filename" and to get out of a directory "cd .." [/url]