On 18/09/11 00:37, Len Lawrence wrote:
Not sure if this is the place to bring up installation issues but here
goes.
Downloaded my very first ISO and burnt it to DVD. Installed Mageia 1
on laptop without difficulty except the one which has happened in
every one of my 60-70 Linux installs over the past 15 years, no
network access during installation so no way of installing any
upgrades until after the reboot. Anyway the GNOME desktop came up
fully customized exactly as on Mandriva but none of my home grown
programs upon which my life depends would run => no ruby. All the
media sources available were installed but urpmi could not find
anything to do with ruby except a few KDE development packages. Does
anybody know where ruby for Mageia lives? And, if it is not available
is there any likelihood that the Mandriva RPMs would install properly
in Mageia?
Post install Mageia 1 was unable to start up wlan which had been
running happily under Mandriva 2010.1 from an Intel Corporation
PRO/Wireless 3945 ABG [Golan] device, vintage 2008. The wireless LED
never comes on so no local networks listed.
Like many users I am very grateful for the time and effort the
community has put into helping Mandriva refugees like me. It looks
like a huge job but unfortunately I cannot offer any help re missing
packages because I am a fulltime carer and housekeeper for my invalid
wife and, yes I know, everybody has problems.
Best regards
Len
Wifi problem solved by rummaging around on Mandriva. It seems that a
range of Intel wifi devices are supported in packages called
iwlwifi-nnnn-ucode where nnnn id the type like 3945. Mageia knows about
these already. urpmi then click on the network icon on the panel and
the network choices come up immediately. A few seconds work and no
reboot. There seemed to be a daemon running already just waiting for
the correct module to be loaded. Simples!
