To determine your hardware go to:

1. Star | System | Configuration | Configure Your Computer
2. Hardware
3. HardDrake

Devices auto-detected/working properly:

• Touch Pad and USB Mouse
• Video
• Audio
• Ethernet
• USB 2
• DVD/RW
• Modem (works with Mandrake Powerpack only)
• Power management

Devices not detected/not working properly:

• IrDA

Steps I did:

1. I run Mandriva 2005 installation from DVD. There were no problems during the installation.
   
   
2. Patched installation from prepared prepared CD-ROM with updates (downloaded from net). In text mode press [CTRL]+[ALT]+[F1] then log in as root and enter:
   # cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS
   # rpm -Fv *.rpm
   # rpm -i kernel-2.6.8.1.??mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
   # rpm -i kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-??mdk.i586.rpm
   # shutdown -r now
   
   
3. Configured firewall for multiple network devices:
   This have to be done once all network devices are configured.
   
   • Star | System | Configuration | Configure Your Computer
   • Security
   • Firewall
   • Uncheck everything except Echo request (ping) and press OK
   • Selected ppp+ and pressed OK
   • Manually replaced 'loc' label with 'net' in shorewall configuration:
     This is only needed if you use multiple devices to connect to internet.
     $ su
     # vi /etc/shorewall/interfaces
   
   
4. Configured subpixel hinting:
   
   • Star | System | Configuration | Configure Your Desktop
   • LookNFeel -> Fonts
   • Use anti-aliasing for fonts -> Configure ...
   • Check in Use sub-pixel hinting and set the type to Vertical
     

Mandrake Powerpack supports Connexant HSF modems, however I use GPRS Modem.

1. USB2Serial Bridge Mobile Action MA-8720C (MA-8720P does not work)
2. Siemens CX65 mobile GPRS Class 10 (also works with C60 / S55)

Installation:

1. Plug-in the cable and check whether the module was load:
   $ su
   # lsmod
   ...
   pl2303 14820 0
   usbserial 29232 1 pl2303
   usbcore 99068 9 usb-storage,usbmouse,hid,pl2303,usbserial,ehci-hcd,ohci-hcd
   ...
2. # vi /etc/rc.d/rc.local
   Add following line at the end of the script:
   ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem
   This is hack kppp does not list device /dev/ttyUSB0 and mandrake devfs makes it impossible to create permanent link in device file folder.
   
3. Install KPPP, caching-nameserver, bind, bind-utils if not present, and run KPPP.
4. Click Configure...
5. Click Device tab and select /dev/ttyUSB0
6. Click Modem tab and click Query Modem ...
   Descriptions should appear, if not it indicates problem with cable.
   You can also click Terminal ... button and issue some AT commands as a test.
7. Click Modem Commands ... button and insert your Initialization string 2 supplied by your internet provider. In my case:
   AT+CGDCONT=1, "IP","internet.t-mobile.cz"
   If you copy string from Internet replace all apostrophees.
8. Click Accounts tab
9. Click New ... and then Manual Setup
10. Enter Phone Number In my case:
    *99***1#
11. Click DNS tab
    Check in Disable existing DNS servers during connection

Mounting the flex-memory of mobile:

1. Download and unzip FUSE 2.3.0 package:
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/
2. Go to the folder where FUSE is unpacked and enter following commands on commandline:
   $ su
   # ./configure
   # make
   # make install
   
3. Download and unzip SieFS 0.5 package:
   http://chaos.allsiemens.com/siefs/
4. Go to the folder where SieFS is unpacked and type following commands on commandline:
   $ su
   # ./configure
   # make
   # make install
   
5. Mount the flex-memory filesystem:
   $ su
   # mount -t siefs /dev/ttyUSB0 /mnt/mobile
   
   Note: name of the device file might differ based on the linux distribution and cable type you are using. For serial cable it will probably be /dev/ttyS0 for usb cable: /dev/ttyUSB0.

Devices auto-detected/working properly:

• Touch Pad and USB Mouse
• Video
• Audio
• Ethernet
• USB 2
• DVD/RW
• Modem (works with Mandrake Powerpack only)
• Power management

Devices not detected/not working properly:

• IrDA

Steps I did:

1. I run Mandrake 10.1 installation from CD. There were no problems during the installation.
   
   
2. Patched installation from prepared prepared CD-ROM with updates (downloaded from net). In text mode press [CTRL]+[ALT]+[F1] then log in as root and enter:
   # cd /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS
   # rpm -Fv *.rpm
   # rpm -i kernel-2.6.8.1.??mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
   # rpm -i kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-??mdk.i586.rpm
   # shutdown -r now
   
   
3. Changed default dpi for fonts:
   $ su
   # vi /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
   and set first configuration line as follows:
   :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 -deferglyphs 16
   
   
4. Configured firewall for multiple network devices:
   This have to be done once all network devices are configured.
   
   • Star | System | Configuration | Configure Your Computer
   • Security
   • Firewall
   • Uncheck everything except Echo request (ping) and press OK
   • Selected ppp+ and pressed OK
   • Manually replaced 'loc' label with 'net' in shorewall configuration:
     This is only needed if you use multiple devices to connect to internet.
     $ su
     # vi /etc/shorewall/interfaces
   
   
5. Configured subpixel hinting:
   
   • Star | System | Configuration | Configure Your Desktop
   • LookNFeel -> Fonts
   • Check in Use sub-pixel hinting and set the type to Vertical
     

Mandrake Powerpack supports Connexant HSF modems, however I use GPRS Modem.

I succeded in writing CD using K2B software. Easy! My mum always asks me to write CD with photos for her, I think now she can do it herself.

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Devices auto-detected/working properly:

• Touch Pad and USB Mouse
• Video
• Audio
• Ethernet
• DVD/RW
• USB 2
• Modem (works with 2.4 kernels only)
• Power management (intervention required)

Devices not detected/not working properly:

• IrDA

Steps I did:

1. I wiped out windows ntfs partition. My PC did crazy things for weeks, so I decided to get rid of damn thing.
   
   
2. I run Mandrake 10.0 installation from CD. There were no problems during the installation.
   
   
3. Patched installation from prepared prepared CD-ROM with updates (downloaded from net) in text mode [CTRL]+[ALT]+[F1] then log in as root and enter:
   # cd /mnt/cdrom/updates/RPMS
   # rpm -Fv *.rpm
   # rpm -i kernel-2.6.3.14mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
   # rpm -i kernel-source-2.6.3-14mdk.i586.rpm
   # shutdown -r now
   
   
4. Rebuild Kernel with ACPI support.
   $ su
   # cd /usr/src/linux
   # make xconfig
   [General Setup] -> [ACPI Support]
   Set Y for ACPI Support / AC Adapter & Battery
   # make clean bzImage modules
   # make modules_install install
   
   
5. K | Configuration | Configure Your Computer
   Boot
   DrakBoot
   Check on Enable ACPI

Free driver is only available for 2.4 kernel.

Mandrake Powerpack supports Connexant HSF modems.

Installation is the same as in Mandriva 2005 except modem device file is /dev/usb/tts/0.

Power management

Kernel-update and rebuild plus boot options configuration required then works.

Devices auto-detected/working properly:

• Touch Pad and USB Mouse (reboot to switch)
• Video
• Audio
• Ethernet
• DVD/RW (intervention required)
• USB 2 (intervention required)
• Modem (intervention required)
• Power management (intervention required)

Devices not detected/not working properly:

• IrDA

Steps I did:

1. I resized windows ntfs partition first still in windows. I decided to do not convert into fat32 (ntfs=read only)
   
   
2. I run Mandrake 9.2 installation from CD. There were no problems during the installation.
   
   
3. Patched installation from prepared CD-ROM with updates (downloaded from net).
   
   
4. Rebuild Kernel with ACPI & USB2 support.
   
   
5. Star | Configuration | Configure Your Computer
   Boot
   DrakBoot
   Configure
   Check on Enable ACPI
   
   
6. Also modify the boot options if your cdrom is hdc add hdclun=0 option. This will fix 'list CDRW seven times' behaviour of the 9.2 kernel.

There is free driver for Conexant modems (works for me):

For more info:

• http://uk.oocities.com/loui2k/linux.html

Installation from source tar:

1. extract the package with "tar -xzf hsflinmodem-{version}.tar.gz"
2. change to the package directory with "cd hsflinmodem-{version}"
3. run "make install" from the top of the package directory.
4. run "hsfconfig" to complete the installation and configure your modem.

(Alternatively to this whole procedure you may generate RPMS from the tar package using rpm -ta hsflinmodem-{version}.tar.gz")

Kernel-update and rebuild plus boot options configuration required then works.

It is necesary to add hdclun=0 into boot options. I also added following line into /etc/fstab and created mountpoint folder:
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrw iso9660 iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,users,ro,noauto 0 0



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Devices auto-detected/working properly:

• Touch Pad and USB Mouse (reboot to switch)
• Video
• Audio
• Ethernet (not tested)
• USB 2 (intervention required)
• Modem (intervention required)

Devices not detected/not working properly:

• IrDA
• DVD/RW (read only)
• Power management

Steps I did:

1. I resized windows ntfs partition first still in windows. I decided to do not convert into fat32 (ntfs=read only)
2. I run Mandrake 9.1 installation from CD. There were no problems during the installation.