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I downloaded and installed Mandriva 2006 (Mandrake 10) on my T23. The install was nice and smooth. It boots faster than Suse 9.1 I replaced. The one thing I am very happy about is that it actually picked up and configured my Belkin wireless card. That's excellent. No drivers to load. I am having an issue connecting to my secured (WPA) network, and am currently using my neighbors wireless connection.

Is anyone else here running mandrake or am I the only one?

No, but I am also a member of UMNWC (using my neighbors wireless connection).

Hey, I've also installed Mandriva 2006 from a magazine DVD, but my newbie condition stops me from using it from what must be a very basic point. I've tried in the last weeks some live cds from other distros and they all worked fine. Since I didn't have a Mandriva live cd I decided to install it (the drive was clean). Installation went fine, but when I try to log it asks me for user login and password, accepts it, and then waits for me to write some code... no idea what. All this is in text (is that verbose?)mode...
What does it want me to write?
Definetely not the simple, graphic user interface I was hoping to find.

Temetka wrote:I am having an issue connecting to my secured (WPA) network, and am currently using my neighbors wireless connection.

WEP is much better supported than WPA. If you must use WPA, I'd suggest you move away from Mandriva, because the community support is less than spectacular. Mandriva wants to sell support for their software. If you're new to linux, there's no better distro than Ubuntu at www.ubuntulinux.org -- if you don't want to download it, they'll even mail you a free copy on CD!

wolverine wrote:What does it want me to write?

You could try typing "startx" to get into the GUI.

Or if you believe there is no "best distro" like I do, you can try WPA-supplicant.
http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/

There is a wpa_supplicant package that ships with Mandriva "power pack" 2006.

I didn't mean to imply Ubuntu is the best; I run Slackware, and that's the best. Ubuntu is what I recommend for people who aren't accustomed to configuring network interfaces under linux.

I gave up on mandriva (I usually give upon on their distro after a week or 2, I keep hoping it'll get better, then doesn't). I now have SuSe 10 installed and running like a champ. I just wish there was a downloadable version of Gnome 2.12. According to the gnome.org site, it's available on LiveCD and developers are adding it to their packages, but other than the source that's it. No RPM to install.

On a side note, I was told Fedora Core 4 would mess up my dual boot system on my laptop. Can anyone here confirm this?

Temetka wrote: I just wish there was a downloadable version of Gnome 2.12.

Novell provides GNOME binaries for Suse linux:

http://www.novell.com/linux/download/gnomes/index.html

Schweeet!

Thanks man.