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yeah thats what i am talking about, you can make it boot and work fine. give it a try, did u remove those lines from your grub.conf?

that is the rpm file, i have got drivers in source format, the more cool thing. i hope they`ll help you get it work

do you have Lucent v.92 dual chipset hardware modem?. dont get confused with word hardware, thats what they write on its packing, infact in working its a pci winmodem. I presume you are using windows while browsing the internet. please check in the modem section, in control panel and do let me know does it writes LT win modem there. it should be connected to COM3. any ways if you have that one, i have got drivers for it in source format. I installed it on my red hat 9 and it works great. if you need drivers for it, you can pm me and tell me your email address, i`ll mail them to you.

No offense but, I guess there is no need for modutils and module-init-utils, if he just wants to compile it. however, modutil and module-init-utils are required for making kernel work . I compiled my 2.6.1 kernel, just with usual source way (the one i have mentioned) without modutils and module-init-utils. it worked and it still boots up, but this is another story i have difficulties with some devices working even if after installing modutils and module-init-utils. overall, I had a tough time with 2.6.x series.

look around your grub.conf, may be you have to remove some enteries. I am not on Linux platform right now, or else i could post here my own grub.conf. alright, if you please open your grub.conf with your favourite editor , you`ll see some enteries in it. under the title of your newly compiled kernel there will be some entry like for example title Red Hat Linux 9 New Kernel (2.4.22) root (hd0,7) kernel /vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/ if it is like that, remove the entries of ro root = LABEL=/, so that it will become something like title Red Hat Linux 9 New Kernel (2.4.22) root (hd0,7) kernel /vmlinuz when the same kernel panic error came to me, i tried the above given trick and it worked for me. hopefully it`ll resolve your problem. Good luck!

its simple 1- just make two partitions of your hard drive. 2- install windows 2000 first. 3-install mandrake on the other partition. simple aint it?

Quote: Thanks for the compliment outstream, but I'm afraid that stuff is way over my head oh c`mmon dude you are such a good Linux geek, its just a simple NTFS problem

write support on NTFS partition from Linux, is still under research (i think so), however it is quite possible that you can read your data from NTFS partition, using Linux. In other words, when it comes to NTFS, you get READ access, no WRITE access. if you have compiled kernel from sources, you must have seen there is option for enabling write access for NTFS partitions but its not recommended. i think Dapper Dan or Dan leff can guide you more better.

Quote: I have 5 distros on my system, not including Windows, using lilo WhaoWw :x

well i am not sure if i have the exact solution to your problem. this happened to me once, when i installed my windows after linux, the windows boot loader installed on MBR over grub and my linux wouldnt run...i use red hat 9..so there was option to go to rescue mode, through installation cd and re-install grub only over MBR again. may be you should have a look on fedora`s documentation or google around a little and try to find if there is a way to go into rescue mode through installation disk(s) of fedora. once there, u can re-install fresh copy of grub on MBR, and hopefully that`ll solve the problem.

ahhhhhhh...i guess i have to write a long reply..i`ll tell u the way i do it when i compile my kernel...i`ll recommend u to try compiling kernel 2.4.22 rather than 2.6.* ( i didnt have good experience with 2.6.*) alright baby..lets go Note: I have written all commands in red lets go step by step.... 1. download kernel source .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 format from www.kernel.org for example there will be file like linux-2.4.22.tar.gz 2. copy it to /usr/src by following command: cp filename.tar.gz /usr/src 3. cd to the /usr/src directory cd /usr/src 4. issue the following command to uncompress the file tar -xzf linux-2.4.22.tar.gz it will extract kernel sources to /usr/src directory right now directory for 2.4.22 will be /usr/src/linux-2.4.22 5. create a symbolic link /usr/src/linux to point to /usr/src/linux-2.4.22 using the ln -s command: cd /usr/src ln -s linux-2.4.22 /usr/src/linux 6. cd to /usr/src/linux cd /usr/src/linux 7. now issue following command make xconfig this will start a gui based configuration tool...where u will select the kernel options.Make sure you set fat, vfat and ntfs support and other required options. Also it is recommended, that when the configuration is complete, you save the settings to a file on the hdd using the save to file option, so that the next time you recompile, you can directly load the configuration from the saved file and proceed to the next step 8. issue following command make dep 9. issue following command make clean 10. issue following command make modules 11. issue following command make modules_install 12. issue following command make bzImage now when make bzImage is done. open your grub.conf and make a backup copy of it, just to be careful forexample i did this cp /etc/grub.conf /etc/grub.backup. 13 . issue following command make install after make install is complete. open /etc/grub.conf and check if the entry of old kernel is still there or not. if its not there, open the backup of grub.conf that we created and copy and paste the entry of old kernel into grub.conf. if the old kernel entry is already there, thats great. now reboot your system and enjoy new kernel. Note: There is a way to compile kernel through rpms, but doing it source way lets u experience some cool speed plus totally your own kernel configurations, so i prefer this

lol its great to know people liked em

do you mean wallpapers? i have posted few on following thread http://www.linuxcompatible.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1202

I agree with Dapper Dan KDE rocks for me.

munzer xmms is already installed in ur system. to run it simply open terminal and type xmms [enter] as told by Dapper Dan however u have to download and install the plugin for xmms to run mp3 files, because that support doesnt comes with it originally. download the plugin for xmms from following url http://havardk.xmms.org/dist/xmms-1.2.7-rh8-rh9-rpm/xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm download it and install it using following command rpm -Uvh xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-21.i386.rpm [enter] after this open xmms and enjoy the sound of disco and yeah, please dont type [enter], just use the enter key