{"id":105,"date":"2007-10-24T04:36:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T20:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=105"},"modified":"2007-10-24T04:36:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T20:36:37","slug":"mandriva-2008-experience-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Mandriva 2008 experience (part two)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I decided to continue digging around the problems I had with my spanking new Mandriva 2008 installation<\/a>. Booting my laptop shows that the wlan0 device is still missing during network initialization. This is going to be a problem so I lug my laptop and power brick to the living room so I can have a wired connection to help solve the problem.<\/p>\n

I am assuming that the problem is somehow related to the way the wireless connection is being brought up. I read some information about ndiswrapper and iwconfig and decided to do some tinkering. I decided to shutoff the wired connection to better know when I finally get my wireless connection working. This is when the proverbial s#17 hits the proverbial fan.<\/p>\n

Shocker of the night #1.<\/p>\n

After clicking the system tray network utility to close down eth0 the processor then starts to do something. And then somewhere between something and nothing. Ten minutes and I still haven’t got anything and the menu windows has started to be rendered as blank squares.<\/p>\n

Mouse works. I can move my pointer but the keyboard is dead. The capslock, numlock and scroll lock keys are not inducing any reaction. Since the mouse is still usable and I am in KDE then there is still a way out. I clicked on the K button, and proceeded to restart the laptop.<\/p>\n

Shocker of the night #2.<\/p>\n

Shutdown seems to work but stopped during the shutdown of the mandi service. My only option at this point is push the hard reset button with a toothpick. Exasperated and since the night is still early I decided to perform another clean install over my new Mandriva 2008 installation. <\/p>\n

Installation #2.<\/p>\n

Same drill. I just selected to reuse my partitions since I don’t want to mess with the partitioning. During the package selection I checked the manual package selection option (like always) and then proceeded to the next screen.<\/p>\n

Shocker of the night #3.<\/p>\n

The installer proceeded with the installation. What!?! Where did the manual selection screen go? I was thinking when I saw that the installation will take around an hour. I don’t want this selection as the default selection will consume about 90% of my root partition where my \/usr resides. I think streamlining the packages afterwards is going to be far difficult than starting all over again. Out cames the toothpick to press the hard reset and restart the installation process.<\/p>\n

Installation #3.<\/p>\n

Same drill except the installer now hanged after the license screen. I waited 15 minutes before taking out the magic toothpick. Man, this toothpick is my McGyver’s all-around magic utility tonight.<\/p>\n

Installation #4.<\/p>\n

Same installation drill. I am beginning to hate the Mandriva 2008 installation background. No fiasco on the package selection and I would only need to wait 26 minutes for all selected packages to be installed. Neat. I think I spent more time than that during the past few attempts.<\/p>\n

At the configuration page I decided to skip the configuration of the network. I figure to do it once the system is functioning. Restarted the Linux system twice just to be sure (I think I am developing an OC identity \ud83d\ude00 ).<\/p>\n

Booted into KDE and then installed ndiswrapper which prompted the installation of other packages. I also installed the prism54 firmware that I have saved in \/storage\/packages\/NoArch. After this I tried configuring the wireless connection first by using the Intersil Javelin drivers (prism54). At the end of the configuration wizard I still don’t have any wireless connection. The system can’t even list the wireless routers in the vicinity.<\/p>\n

I fired up the network connection wizard again and selected the ndiswrapper option. This time the system is able to list the connections found in the apartment. I configured the parameters for our router that uses a WPA PSK. I still can’t get any connection. Just for the heck of it, I rebooted the machine and LO AND BEHOLD the dreaded error message is back informing me that the wlan0 driver is back.<\/p>\n

Hell. I give up for now. If I don’t get my wireless connection up within the week then I am ditching Mandriva for now since my 2007.1 installer is in Manila. I will take this as a sign for me to try other distributions in this laptop.<\/p>\n

Time to sleep.<\/p>\n

ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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