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OK , so finally installed PWP 2011 and every thing went smooth, but there are several problems.
1) The sound is damaged, there is sound but damaged, I tried the driver to be snd_ad1816a ALSA, OSS ad1816 , snd_hda_intel(ALSA), and neither worked, there is a possibility to choose from list but it is long. My sound card is Intel Corporation Device 1e20 .HELP!
2) There is no wifi driver nor firmware under MCC, and modprobe as root gives:
Quote:
FATAL:Module iwlwifi does not found.
3) I want to change the emacs theme, there is no package named color-theme in MCC, and I don't know the name of the theme I want, I remember that I faced the same problem on previous version of mandriva and that all I needed to do is to modify the ~/.emacs file... any HELP please !
4) There is no 3D option under MCC ???
5) I installed sakis3g, I have lsusb and lsmod only as superuser, there is no sysfs mounted under /mnt/sys.
after giving it the root password it shows this error:
Quote:
sakis3g: cannot execute command ~/Desktop/sakis3g --interactive SGUI "kdialog" USB MODEM = "1bbb:f000" OTHER = "USB MODEM" MODEM = "OTHER" MENU = "CONNECT" DISPLAY = "0"
color-theme - if this doesn't show anything, Mandriva does not have a package for it. I went to this link-->http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3 and did a search for a color-theme rpm package. There are several for Fedora and Red-hat. You could download one, and use urpmi to install it. I do not know if that will work, or not. It is worth a try.
Iwlwifi support is probably in the kernel. I don't have a Mandriva system to verify that. It is in Magia2 kernel. In MCC I entered iwlwifi, and it shows the three 'ucode' packages. They would not be there if the support was not in the kernel. Try the same in MCC.
In MCC, under Hardware, is there not a 3D option there?
In MCC, under Hardware, is there not a 3D option there?
There is no, only an option for graphic card.
And regarding sakis3g, I found that I don't have wvdial , wvdialconf and usb mode switch, I installed all of them, now if I run it as a root it connects but there is no internet, the APN username and password I give it do not show in the wvdial.conf file under /etc .. ?
Quote:
In MCC I entered iwlwifi, and it shows the three 'ucode' packages. They would not be there if the support was not in the kernel. Try the same in MCC.
I have all of them installed .
Last edited by mandrivaFan; 09-26-2012 at 08:13 AM.
Hi,
I just wanted to add that the most important thing for me now is the sakis3g since I don't want to switch between Linux and Windows all the time.
The net work applet asks for password to unlock Keyring Default?
also when I connect using sakis ifconfig -a shows ppp0 with IP address..!!!
MCC shows wireless as an option of configured networks, but with no name (eth1,wlan,...), only the name of the device, if click on it to configure it, it gives this mesage:
Quote:
unable to find network interface for selected device using iwlagn driver
hope for some help,
Thanks
Last edited by mandrivaFan; 09-26-2012 at 10:49 AM.
Hi,
I finally managed to connect through sakis3g, I have no clue as to why it connected this time,
It still asks me about the default keyring, I have seahorse installed on my machine ,
I didn't understand what to do with it, I read it's manual pages and could not figure out how it will help me discover the keyring password.
I tried all of the drivers for the sound card, neither worked, the default one works some time, for few minutes then the noise starts again.
I installed the color-theme package, now it appears as installed in the MCC, but emacs says problem loading color-theme file ... !
I tried a huge list, over 50 drivers, I went to MCC, under hardware click on the sound and then choosing try set audio driver manually, it give a huge list, now it's set on snd_hda_intl.
This is your audio device, and there appears to be only one. However, the card is not properly being shown by lspci. See this thread, it is a bit long, the solution is in the last post on page two.
This is Debain, you will not be able to copy the commands, your system is Mandriva. You will have to see if Mandriva has a newer kernel, at least 3.2 for sound to work.
You could always download the latest kernel source, and compile your own.
Another possibility is to switch to a distro with at least a 3.2 kernel.
Last, wait for mandriva to release its next version.
If I can remember, to disable Pulse audio, in MCC, sound configuration, I think there was some advanced settings, and an option there to disable pulse. I never got sound to work on Mandriva with pulse audio enabled with my sound card. It was just a thought I had, and costs nothing to try it, to see if that helps.
So from what I understand I should have at least 3.2 , how can I get a newer version of the kernel, I knew about the
possibility to compile the kernel, but I don't know how is that done ?
And disabling the pulse audio does not work !
And I don't have apt-get .
Thanks,
Last edited by mandrivaFan; 09-30-2012 at 11:41 AM.
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