RE: [newbie] Mandrake support for Cisco wireless Network Cards
Greg Meyer said: On Thursday 04 March 2004 02:05 pm, Mark Kirschner wrote: Hi all. I've an opportunity to pick up a laptop with a wireless network adapter (Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card). I have been unsuccessful with getting this same card to work under Mandrake 9.1, and the only help I've come across said to downgrade the card firmware. Does anyone know if 9.2 supports this card, or if 10.0 will when released? I'll admit, I've not yet delved into the prospect of researching hardware requirements (between health issues, classwork and a job search, I've had little time lately for research on the issue). 10.0 supports this card as the airo_mpi driver maintained by Fabrice Bellet has been merged into the 2.6.3 kernel. 9.2 does not support it out of the box, but airo_mpi installs easily and works great. It is required that the card firmware remain at an older version. I have not found this to be a problem at all, since I rarely use Windows. I just make sure I am using the Windows driver that matches the firmware. I think it is 5.00.03 of something close. More info here http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/ -- /g Thanks, Greg. I'll keep this information handy for when I get the computer. Windows compatibility is, unfortunately, a concern as this will be the sole computer in the house, and my wife is still firmly attached to Windows XP (attempts to win her to the Linux side failed miserably due to poor planning on my part). To make sure I'm reading you correctly, Greg; 10.0 will support the card natively with no firmware change? But to use airo_mpi and 9.2, I need to step the firmware back? Fortunately, the laptop's got an on-board NIC, so I can connect to our cable modem with a long Cat5, just have to sacrifice mobility for a bit. Thanks again for your response. Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake support for Cisco wireless Network Cards
On Monday 08 March 2004 02:33 pm, Mark Kirschner wrote: To make sure I'm reading you correctly, Greg; 10.0 will support the card natively with no firmware change? But to use airo_mpi and 9.2, I need to step the firmware back? No. The firmware needs to be stepped back in both cases because the airo in 2.6 actually is just airo_mpi merged back in. There is a Windows driver available for the 5.00.03 firware available so that the card will work in both Linux and Windows, unless there is some feature that you absolutely must have in the later driver. BTW, I've gone back to using airo_mpi in the 2.6.4-4mdk with 10.0 because it is more stable. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake support for Cisco wireless Network Cards
On Thursday 04 March 2004 02:05 pm, Mark Kirschner wrote: Hi all. I've an opportunity to pick up a laptop with a wireless network adapter (Cisco Aironet 350 PCMCIA card). I have been unsuccessful with getting this same card to work under Mandrake 9.1, and the only help I've come across said to downgrade the card firmware. Does anyone know if 9.2 supports this card, or if 10.0 will when released? I'll admit, I've not yet delved into the prospect of researching hardware requirements (between health issues, classwork and a job search, I've had little time lately for research on the issue). 10.0 supports this card as the airo_mpi driver maintained by Fabrice Bellet has been merged into the 2.6.3 kernel. 9.2 does not support it out of the box, but airo_mpi installs easily and works great. It is required that the card firmware remain at an older version. I have not found this to be a problem at all, since I rarely use Windows. I just make sure I am using the Windows driver that matches the firmware. I think it is 5.00.03 of something close. More info here http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/ -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake support
this is NOT mandreake suport, and you probly should look on the web pages you were on on mandrake-expert to contact them about the problem. what was the problem tho? On Wednesday 26 December 2001 21:11, you wrote: I have purchased mandrake powerpack 8.1. I got registered also. I did login. and started creating an incident. I am not sure what is the title? I typed one for power pack i got the next screen saying that I don't own any unit. I typed my user name. Then also same how to roceed to use the mandrake expert during this period. Validity exist upto 25/2/2 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Support
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 7:37pm ,rharvey spake passionately in a message: I have called micrsoft and got my free support that comes with the purchase of a new operating system. they helped me on the spot and I had 30 day left to ask for more help. Hmm... :) there's always the exception to the rule.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Support
In a message dated 10/14/2000 5:34:29 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mandrake seems to have set the goal of being the best Linux distribution. I think they are doing it. This is one small element in the overall picture. in my opinion it is one of their bigger faults, and because of companys that do simular things i find that one i always grab something that is free, two i tend to pirate software, three i never rely on tech support
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Support
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/14/2000 5:34:29 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mandrake seems to have set the goal of being the best Linux distribution. I think they are doing it. This is one small element in the overall picture. in my opinion it is one of their bigger faults, and because of companys that do simular things i find that one i always grab something that is free, two i tend to pirate software, three i never rely on tech support That's comforting. -- Roman Penguin powered email only
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Support
I now know that various distributions deal with support in different ways. Slackware has email and web support. Red Hat has telephone support. However, I find Mandrake to be the best distribution for my needs. If Macmillan simply did not say they were offering "guaranteed 24-hour turnaround" support, there would be no issue. I would purchase it anyway. Do you realize that you're talking about no more than a couple "incidents" being covered by this support? Look closely at any of the agreements and you'll find that there's a time period and there's also a number of incidents where you can ask for, and receive, information. You are right that you should have gotten a response from Macmillan. It's also been stated that there have been enough problems with that support that Mandrake has taken it back so your experience (or at least the collective experience of the customer base) has been acknowledged by the parent company. My concern is that someone not familiar or experienced with Linux and the open source community process may be frustrated by the lack of response. Maybe so...but if they're a Windows user they have never gotten any response. Mandrake seems to have set the goal of being the best Linux distribution. I think they are doing it. This is one small element in the overall picture. That would seem to be the case. The RedHat people have just released a distro that seems to have problems with its "new" compiler (you can't even compile the kernel being distributed with it. I tried to install it the other day and could log on as root but couldn't even get a user running effectively. I decided that it just wasn't worth it. I guess I should have used my telephone support :-) Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Support
I have called micrsoft and got my free support that comes with the purchase of a new operating system. they helped me on the spot and I had 30 day left to ask for more help. - Original Message - From: "Larry Marshall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Support I now know that various distributions deal with support in different ways. Slackware has email and web support. Red Hat has telephone support. However, I find Mandrake to be the best distribution for my needs. If Macmillan simply did not say they were offering "guaranteed 24-hour turnaround" support, there would be no issue. I would purchase it anyway. Do you realize that you're talking about no more than a couple "incidents" being covered by this support? Look closely at any of the agreements and you'll find that there's a time period and there's also a number of incidents where you can ask for, and receive, information. You are right that you should have gotten a response from Macmillan. It's also been stated that there have been enough problems with that support that Mandrake has taken it back so your experience (or at least the collective experience of the customer base) has been acknowledged by the parent company. My concern is that someone not familiar or experienced with Linux and the open source community process may be frustrated by the lack of response. Maybe so...but if they're a Windows user they have never gotten any response. Mandrake seems to have set the goal of being the best Linux distribution. I think they are doing it. This is one small element in the overall picture. That would seem to be the case. The RedHat people have just released a distro that seems to have problems with its "new" compiler (you can't even compile the kernel being distributed with it. I tried to install it the other day and could log on as root but couldn't even get a user running effectively. I decided that it just wasn't worth it. I guess I should have used my telephone support :-) Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Support
In a message dated 10/14/2000 8:08:31 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have called micrsoft and got my free support that comes with the purchase of a new operating system. they helped me on the spot and I had 30 day left to ask for more help. yes but spending $89.00 on an os is just too much for a little security of one month free support, its pathetic! i would rather have unlimmited support for a lifetime with linux sure you dont always get your responce right away but heck when your pirating and hacking software to save a buck you dont have who the hell needs support!
Re: [newbie] Mandrake support
I had pretty poor "support" from Mandrake. What replies I got were either cryptic or were obviously canned messages. One time they told me my problem with installing grub was a "bug". When I asked what the bug was I never got an answer. Obviously a brush-off because I solved the problem and it was no bug. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Bob Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake support - Original Message - From: "Rod Baxter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake support I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came with support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response from them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience of their support? I think four days is much too long. Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to hear from Mandrake. Rod I also have been having problems with support form Mandrake. I have never really gotten a response from them. Even after several e-mails. Robert C. Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montana, The Big Sky Country
Re: [newbie] Mandrake support
I did receive a rather prompt response from mandrake. However, their answer doesn't seem to work. I may be missing something but I have no one to go over it with. I have formatted my hard drive and now want to install linux. I have an older P60 Dell and I have to boot with a diskette, I have a MagicSpin cdrom that the system can not find. The response I got back was create a special boot disk using cdrom.img under rawwrite.exe. I am not able to do anything once I open rawwrite.exe am I missing something? From: "Bob Abbott" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake support Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:53:04 -0600 - Original Message - From: "Rod Baxter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake support I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came with support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response from them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience of their support? I think four days is much too long. Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to hear from Mandrake. Rod I also have been having problems with support form Mandrake. I have never really gotten a response from them. Even after several e-mails. Robert C. Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montana, The Big Sky Country _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
RE: [newbie] Mandrake support
rawrite.exe is a DOS program that must be run from a command line. It's the original program that was used to write Linux boot floppy back when there's no such thing as LILO. Hope this helps. Andy -- From: Tim Jackson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake support I did receive a rather prompt response from mandrake. However, their answer doesn't seem to work. I may be missing something but I have no one to go over it with. I have formatted my hard drive and now want to install linux. I have an older P60 Dell and I have to boot with a diskette, I have a MagicSpin cdrom that the system can not find. The response I got back was create a special boot disk using cdrom.img under rawwrite.exe. I am not able to do anything once I open rawwrite.exe am I missing something? From: "Bob Abbott" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake support Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:53:04 -0600 - Original Message - From: "Rod Baxter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake support I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came with support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response from them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience of their support? I think four days is much too long. Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to hear from Mandrake. Rod I also have been having problems with support form Mandrake. I have never really gotten a response from them. Even after several e-mails. Robert C. Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montana, The Big Sky Country _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Mandrake support
Answer from a user: dont know if you tried this: when your computer boot press delete to acces the bios of your machine. find the part where it say order to boot , its probably a,b,c or something like that. change it to cd-rom first, c , a or something like that (important is to have cd-rom first. restart your machine when it restart put your distibution cd instalation in the cd-rom drive. if you miss it the first time, just restart the machine its suppose to use your cd-rom as boot If you have tried it sorry If it dont work sorry it works here If it work, well thank the Linux-mandrake gods for there blessing. hehehe __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Mandrake support
Tim Jackson wrote: I did receive a rather prompt response from mandrake. However, their answer doesn't seem to work. I may be missing something but I have no one to go over it with. I have formatted my hard drive and now want to install linux. I have an older P60 Dell and I have to boot with a diskette, I have a MagicSpin cdrom that the system can not find. The response I got back was create a special boot disk using cdrom.img under rawwrite.exe. I am not able to do anything once I open rawwrite.exe am I missing something? [snip] Timgo to a dos prompt and use rawrite.exe instead (it's in the same directory as rawwrite.exe). You'll need to know the path to the cdrom.img file. -- MandrakeSoft Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Altadena, CA USA --Alan
Re: [newbie] Mandrake support
- Original Message - From: "Rod Baxter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 5:22 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake support I had a problem installing 7.1 and as I had bough a package which came with support I emailed mandrake about the problem. I have not had a response from them and its now been four days. Has anyone out there had any experience of their support? I think four days is much too long. Incidentally, I finally got around the problem, but I would still like to hear from Mandrake. Rod I also have been having problems with support form Mandrake. I have never really gotten a response from them. Even after several e-mails. Robert C. Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montana, The Big Sky Country
