Re: [newbie] services not starting
What is the initlevel you are booting into. Check in /etc/inittab for a line beginning with id:. The number after that is your default run level. Then check in the directory /etc/rcrunlevel.d/ whether there are any links named S*named and S*mysql. If not there, create them. HTH Nikunj. --- Colin Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, wondering if this is a known problem. installed mdk9 with named and mysql to start on boot. they dont. If I check in mcc under system/services, it shows them as set to start on boot. If I do service ... start, they work fine until next re-boot. The same happened when I installed firestarter. I have had exactly the same problem on 3 installs (different boxes) Any fixes? -- regards, Colin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3:00pm up 5 days, 19:37, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.26, 0.27 I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. -- Blaise Pascal ..registered linux user #223862 .. _ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re[2]: [newbie] services not starting
Glat that helped. No idea why its not working with 9.0. I am not running 9.0 yet. --- Colin Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Nikunj, Wednesday, December 18, 2002, 4:29:10 PM, you wrote: NB What is the initlevel you are booting into. Check in NB /etc/inittab for a line beginning with id:. The NB number after that is your default run level. Then NB check in the directory /etc/rcrunlevel.d/ whether NB there are any links named S*named and S*mysql. If not NB there, create them. fantasticall fixed, (gave them a run level of 5) now I have at least some understanding of run levels :) any idea why this happens with mdk9, 8.2 did not have this problem? thanks again __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Xawtv install problems.
-lXpm means its trying to look for a library named libXpm.so Here is what I found on the rpmfind.net for that file: http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libXpmsubmit=Search+... Install the rpm for libXpm and try to run configure again. Just to be doubly sure, I always remove the config.cache and config.status files before running configure again. HTH, Nikunj. --- Brian Trainor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get XawTV 3.81 installed here so I can have the webcam app. I run ./configure with no problem, but when I run make, it goes ok for a little and then I get this: LD console/v41-conf /usr/bin/ld: Cannot find -lXpm collect2: ld returned 1 ext status make: *** [console/v41-conf] Error 1 It should be noted it appears to run ld on other things without error. I've been googling for about far too long to find an answer to whats going on here. Do I need a new version of ld that supports those flags, or is something screwy in the make file that it's running ld with just those flags and not any actual file input? Any and all help will be a great relief. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Netscape problem
I am not sure how this got setup on your system (maybe old settings in .mozilla directory? ). Anyhow, you can go to Netscape-Edit-Preferences-PrivacySecurity-Certificates Here choose the Manage Security Devices. Try playing with the settings for the Software Security Device here. HTH Nikunj. --- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Mandrake 9.0 and Netscape 7.0, When Netscape starts up, I get a dialog which says: Please enter the master password for the software security device It accepts my log-on password. How can I get rid of this message? John -- Dr John Foster GOLD SOFTWARE International Pty Ltd P O Box 5033 Laburnum Victoria 3130 Australia Phone: 04 1173 7288 Fax:03 9836 6604 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:http://www.goldsoft.com.au Free office software: http://www.openoffice.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] recording audio
Here is what I do. Convert your mp3 files to .wav files using a program such as mpg123. mpg123 with -w option works quite well for this. Then using any CD burner software like xcdroast or koncd etc. create an audio cd giving these .wav files as the individual tracks. The CD thus created can be used in any standard CD player. HTH, Nikunj. --- Dennis Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Peoples, I would like to convert, and record mp3's to a cdr so that they can be played on a regular cd player. I've made 3 coasters trying. this is one of two reasons why windows still resides on this harddrive. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dynamic IP
Well, I have a somewhat similar situation and I have an account for Dynamic DNS with tzo.com. I do not have a black box router though. My router is a Linux box running ssh. So I just ssh to this box first and then I can ssh to my internal machines from there. Does your router have any such telnet/ssh facility? Port forwarding to your internal machine can also work if your router privides that. i.e you can set it up such that any connections to port 22 (ssh) get redirected to port 22 on the internal machine. Just some thoughts. Nikunj. --- Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys I'm using Mandrake 9 and enjoy using it, so far with no major headaches. I would now like to set up a mail server with web access for my own use whilst travelling (I'm going to South Africa on holioday tomorrow). I have a cable connection with a dynamically assigned IP and using a Linksys DSL/Cable router with my Linux PC connected via one of the available 4 LAN ports. Having set up an account with no-ip.com I have installed the client on my pc and think it updates my IP automatically, however I am a bit confused with where the router fits into all this. If my Dynamic IP changes the router will automatically remain connected. I have set up Mandrake using a static IP, and enabled a route to the PC using the routers DMZ function. Can I safely assume that this would give me access to my PC, just by entering the blahblah.no-ip.com address ? Does anyone have any suggestions for a webmail server ? I know the easiest way is just to forward all my mail to my ISP's facility - but thats not why I changed over to Linux a few years ago. I trust someone has a similar setup and can chuck me a few pointers. Regards Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dynamic IP
Sure. Your distro CDs should have the OpenSSH software. The RPMs are named like openssh-common, openssh-server, openssh-client. Install them on ur Linux box. The installation will also create a default setup good to go as a server on port 22. You can tweak all that in /etc/ssh/sshd.conf. Test it out by issuing the ssh localhost command. It should connect, ask you for ur login password and drop you into a shell. No need to use the insecure telnet afterwards. SSH sessions are secured using encryption. Lots of enhancements can be done using SSH. Stuff like tunneling other insecure protocols like IMAP or X over the SSH channel, doing client authentication using client keys or single sign on to the entire network can be achieved easily using SSH. There is even a secure file copy (scp) along with it. Rest is RTFM :-) Nikunj. --- Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 4:23 pm, Nikunj Bansal wrote: Well, I have a somewhat similar situation and I have an account for Dynamic DNS with tzo.com. I do not have a black box router though. My router is a Linux box running ssh. So I just ssh to this box first and then I can ssh to my internal machines from there. Does your router have any such telnet/ssh facility? Port forwarding to your internal machine can also work if your router privides that. i.e you can set it up such that any connections to port 22 (ssh) get redirected to port 22 on the internal machine. Just some thoughts. Thanks for your advice. I can do port forwarding with my router, just wasn't sure about what ports to use - or how to use SSH - any pointers :-) ? regards Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Dynamic IP
Oh, I shud have mentioned. There are other RPMs named openssh-*. You might need or want to install some or all of those also. Good luck. --- Nikunj Bansal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. Your distro CDs should have the OpenSSH software. The RPMs are named like openssh-common, openssh-server, openssh-client. Install them on ur Linux box. The installation will also create a default setup good to go as a server on port 22. You can tweak all that in /etc/ssh/sshd.conf. Test it out by issuing the ssh localhost command. It should connect, ask you for ur login password and drop you into a shell. No need to use the insecure telnet afterwards. SSH sessions are secured using encryption. Lots of enhancements can be done using SSH. Stuff like tunneling other insecure protocols like IMAP or X over the SSH channel, doing client authentication using client keys or single sign on to the entire network can be achieved easily using SSH. There is even a secure file copy (scp) along with it. Rest is RTFM :-) Nikunj. --- Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 4:23 pm, Nikunj Bansal wrote: Well, I have a somewhat similar situation and I have an account for Dynamic DNS with tzo.com. I do not have a black box router though. My router is a Linux box running ssh. So I just ssh to this box first and then I can ssh to my internal machines from there. Does your router have any such telnet/ssh facility? Port forwarding to your internal machine can also work if your router privides that. i.e you can set it up such that any connections to port 22 (ssh) get redirected to port 22 on the internal machine. Just some thoughts. Thanks for your advice. I can do port forwarding with my router, just wasn't sure about what ports to use - or how to use SSH - any pointers :-) ? regards Mark A Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me
Same here. Although I am more of a KDE fan and RH has butchered it in 8.0 quite a bit. Mandrake simply refused to recongnize IDE drives on my new ABIT-BD-711 motherboard. RH8 works fine. --- Alexander Rayborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate to say it, but Mandrake 9.0 lost this battle. I gave up trying to recompile kernels to fix my problem - I gave Red Hat v8.0 a shot (I like Gnome anyway)... and voila, no problems with my P4B533-E motherboard. Works beautifully and runs well. Sorry Mandrake! --Alexander ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake does not detect IDE devices on motherboard
Sorry about the RH9 reference. I meant RH8.0 of course. I tried to follow your suggestion about PnP settings on my BIOS. Disabled the automatic PnP in BIOS. No go... I dont know if I change that to manual what should I specify in the manual configuration. Any other help? Thanks Nikunj. --- Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 11:35, Nikunj Bansal wrote: Hi all, I recently upgraded the motherboard and the CPU on my PC and am unable to use or install Mandrake (tried versions 8.2 and 9.0) after that. On the other hand, the previous RedHat 9.0 install on another partition on the same PC works fine as well as RedHat 9.0 Install CD works fine too. RED HAT 9 ??? Wow - you're getting things faster than they make 'em mate! The new Motherboard is ABIT BD-711 and new CPU is Intel Celeron 1.8GHz. First of all my old install of Mandrake 8.2 wont boot on the new setup. So I tried installing anew. However, both 8.2 and 9.0 installs give an error No CDROM device found in the initial stages of the install itself. Have you tried disabling the PNP settings in BIOS? So, I did more experimentation on my setup. Apparently any IDE devices plugged into the motherboard IDE controller are not being recognized by the Mandrake installed kernel as well as the Mandrake Install CD kernel. How do I know this? Because I have a PCI-IDE bridge too and when I plugged my CDRom and the hard disk into this controller and boot from the floppy using the cdrom.img on it, the install starts recognizing these. However this way, I cannot use CDROMs and my main HDD to boot my PC at all (will have to use floppy all the time) and I dont wish to configure this way. Anyone seen any similar problems before with ABIT-BD-711 or some other motherboard? Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Nikunj. Can I get a copy of RH 9? (gri) -- Fri Nov 29 12:40:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. |____ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | ;/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take my place among the sellers. -- Bertolt Brecht, Hollywood Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mandrake does not detect IDE devices on motherboard
Hi all, I recently upgraded the motherboard and the CPU on my PC and am unable to use or install Mandrake (tried versions 8.2 and 9.0) after that. On the other hand, the previous RedHat 9.0 install on another partition on the same PC works fine as well as RedHat 9.0 Install CD works fine too. The new Motherboard is ABIT BD-711 and new CPU is Intel Celeron 1.8GHz. First of all my old install of Mandrake 8.2 wont boot on the new setup. So I tried installing anew. However, both 8.2 and 9.0 installs give an error No CDROM device found in the initial stages of the install itself. So, I did more experimentation on my setup. Apparently any IDE devices plugged into the motherboard IDE controller are not being recognized by the Mandrake installed kernel as well as the Mandrake Install CD kernel. How do I know this? Because I have a PCI-IDE bridge too and when I plugged my CDRom and the hard disk into this controller and boot from the floppy using the cdrom.img on it, the install starts recognizing these. However this way, I cannot use CDROMs and my main HDD to boot my PC at all (will have to use floppy all the time) and I dont wish to configure this way. Anyone seen any similar problems before with ABIT-BD-711 or some other motherboard? Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Nikunj. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake
Hi all, I recently upgraded the motherboard and the CPU on my PC and am unable to use or install Mandrake (tried versions 8.2 and 9.0) after that. On the other hand, the previous RedHat 9.0 install on another partition on the same PC works fine as well as RedHat 9.0 Install CD works fine too. The new Motherboard is ABIT BD-711 and new CPU is Intel Celeron 1.8GHz. First of all my old install of Mandrake 8.2 wont boot on the new setup. So I tried installing anew. However, both 8.2 and 9.0 installs give an error No CDROM device found in the initial stages of the install itself. So, I did more experimentation on my setup. Apparently any IDE devices plugged into the motherboard IDE controller are not being recognized by the Mandrake installed kernel as well as the Mandrake Install CD kernel. How do I know this? Because I have a PCI-IDE bridge too and when I plugged my CDRom and the hard disk into this controller and boot from the floppy using the cdrom.img on it, the install starts recognizing these. However this way, I cannot use CDROMs to boot my PC at all and I dont wish to configure this way. Anyone seen any similar problems before with ABIT-BD-711 or some other motherboard? Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Nikunj. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake
Hi Jim, Thanks for the response. I do not have any of the devices as slaves. I have 3 IDE devices - 2 HDDs and 1 CDROM/RW (Plextor 12/10/32). Apart from the 2 slots for IDE on board I also have a PCI-IDE bridge for the extra device. Here is my problem. The Mandrake Install CD does not recognize the device(s) plugged into the on-board slots but does so for the device(s) plugged into the PCI-IDE bridge. I have experimented with different combinations and this seems to be always the case. I know that the CDs are good as I have used this same set many times before to install. Also, both the 8.0 and the 9.0 CD give the same exact problem. On the other hand, the RedHat CD works just fine. Am not sure how to get the BIOS updates and install them. I dont have DOS/Windows at all to do that. Can one do that from Linux? Thanks Nikunj. --- Jim Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you experimented with master/slave/cable-select settings on the CDROM? Are you sure the MDK CD's are good? Check for bios updates for the motherboard? Just some ideas, hope they help. Sincerely, Jim Hubbard .--. |o_o | |:_/ | // \ \ (| | ) /'\_ _/`\ \___)=(___/ Rockingham County Linux Users Group www.rock.lug.net -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nikunj Bansal Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake Hi all, I recently upgraded the motherboard and the CPU on my PC and am unable to use or install Mandrake (tried versions 8.2 and 9.0) after that. On the other hand, the previous RedHat 9.0 install on another partition on the same PC works fine as well as RedHat 9.0 Install CD works fine too. The new Motherboard is ABIT BD-711 and new CPU is Intel Celeron 1.8GHz. First of all my old install of Mandrake 8.2 wont boot on the new setup. So I tried installing anew. However, both 8.2 and 9.0 installs give an error No CDROM device found in the initial stages of the install itself. So, I did more experimentation on my setup. Apparently any IDE devices plugged into the motherboard IDE controller are not being recognized by the Mandrake installed kernel as well as the Mandrake Install CD kernel. How do I know this? Because I have a PCI-IDE bridge too and when I plugged my CDRom and the hard disk into this controller and boot from the floppy using the cdrom.img on it, the install starts recognizing these. However this way, I cannot use CDROMs to boot my PC at all and I dont wish to configure this way. Anyone seen any similar problems before with ABIT-BD-711 or some other motherboard? Any pointers will be appreciated. Thanks in advance, Nikunj. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake
Are you able to boot into Mandrake normally after the install is completed? I worry because my existing Mandrake installation is also not booting up presumably because it does not seem to recognize the hard disk plugged into the IDE slots on board. --- Alexander Rayborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This sounds a lot like the problem I'm having with the Asus P4B533-E. I had to install Mandrake via FTP server (I copied the CDs to a share on my home network and connected to it during the install). I have also updated to the latest BIOS to no avail. --Alexander -Original Message- From: Nikunj Bansal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 6:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake Hi Jim, Thanks for the response. I do not have any of the devices as slaves. I have 3 IDE devices - 2 HDDs and 1 CDROM/RW (Plextor 12/10/32). Apart from the 2 slots for IDE on board I also have a PCI-IDE bridge for the extra device. Here is my problem. The Mandrake Install CD does not recognize the device(s) plugged into the on-board slots but does so for the device(s) plugged into the PCI-IDE bridge. I have experimented with different combinations and this seems to be always the case. I know that the CDs are good as I have used this same set many times before to install. Also, both the 8.0 and the 9.0 CD give the same exact problem. On the other hand, the RedHat CD works just fine. Am not sure how to get the BIOS updates and install them. I dont have DOS/Windows at all to do that. Can one do that from Linux? Thanks Nikunj. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] more on Asus P4B533-E
If thats the case, then redhat seems to have done something right. Coz I am able to use my existing install of redhat from before my motherboard replacement adventure and also I am able to get the redhat 9.0 install CD to recognize all devices on the onboard IDE controllers. --- Alexander Rayborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to think this is a bug in Intel's chipset design. Mandrake refuses to recognize the IDE controllers are located on IRQs 14/15... then it complains on every boot: PCI Resouce collisions 00:1F (I'll post a complete dmesg if anyone is interested). Alan Cox claims to have fixed this in the stock kernel with his patch tree, but I'm still too newbie to get a compiled kernel to boot. It crashes after every boot. What gets me thinking is... on these motherboards, Intel ships the Intel Application Accelerator which is basically nothing more than a package of UDMA drivers for the onboard IDE controllers. It's starting to feel like they're compensating for something... --Alexander __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] CDROM not found error in installation
Hello all, I am a longtime Mandrake user (~3 years) and I am getting stuck at the first step in installation. I have a Plextor 12/10/32A CDROM/CD Writer. I have been succesfully using it for about 10 months now under Mandrake 8.1/8.2. In fact, I have done OS installs on this machine using this as a CDROM drive. However, I got my PC's motherboard and CPU changed yesterday (old: P-II 350 MHz Tyan motherboard, new: Celeron 1.8GHz, ABIT BD-711 motherboard). And I was not able to boot into Mandrake 8.2. So I decided to reinstall the OS. I have tried Mandrake 8.1, 8.2 and 9.0 Install CDs. All of them boot the machine fine and ask to press Enter to install. When I do that... it starts reading from the CD just fine, but then after a few seconds it displays the following error message in a box: No CDROM device found I may be off on the wording of the above error message as it is from memory. When I choose Ok on this, it asks to choose a SCSI driver. I tried all of them and none worked, as expected. I have never experienced the no cdrom error message before, so I dont know what to do... What could be wrong here? Thanks in advance, Nikunj. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com