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accessing usb drives in mandrake linux 10.1

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:55 am
by raghavan20
I recently installed mandrake linux 10.1 .
the very first problem i am not able to connect to the internet.
I have a belkin wireless network adapter which has to configured.
I downloaded a linux driver from belkin website and loaded it into an usb drive but the linux does not recognise usb drive. help me with this :cry:
is plug and play supported in linux flavors???

Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:06 am
by Chris Corbyn
You need to have hotplug enabled but yes plug & play basically works. Mass storage devices shoud be supported and will just mount themselves.

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df -ah
That command will show you everything that's mounted and where so that might help.

If it's not working type

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dmesg
And see if anything was detected or has errors.

As for the Belkin wireless card if it's PCI / PCMCIA you may wish to try the "ndiswrapper" module... it's easy to use with your windows drivers and works well.

;)

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:50 pm
by raghavan20
I tried the commands today and it showed all the hard disk drives including the Windows one and a floppy and a cd drive but it does not show anything related to USB drive.

my other problems:
1. sound driver does not work. how to install sound driver???
2. I have got two hdd of 40gb each. I dont get a boot option when the system loads. earlier when i installed the LINUX in the hdb, I gave the option install some boot file in hdb instead of hda. so everytime if i wanna load windows i am changing the boot option to ide 0 where Windows in installed and to boot Linux I have to make ide 1 as the first boot device. now how do i make the system to ask for option when it loads.
3. is it possible to manually mount a drive...usb???
4. How to run/start mysql and apache on linux?
5. how do I see mysql and apache is installed?

Is there is any good starter tutorial on using mysql, apache and linux???

Guys, when you try to help me keep in mind I am such a novice to Linux and dont ask me anything really technical. I will do wotever you say. :?

Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:40 pm
by ambivalent
These folks will probably be more helpful: http://mandrivausers.org/

To see if Apache and MySQL are running, run the Control Centre as root (should somewhere in the menu) and look at "Services" (under the "System" tab) to tell you what is running and what is not. You can start/stop services here as well.

For you dual booting issue, you need to check what bootloader is in use. I've always used loadlin so I can't help much - I believe it is something along the lines of a simple edit of /etc/lilo.conf (if you use LILO) but check first.

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:35 am
by raghavan20
few of the problems have bee solved now...
when i used dmesg it said
usb mass storage device is installed at location 3
and later when i opened control center and went into services i found that hotplug is disabled at boot. so i enabled it and it detected the usb drive.
regarding booting, i somehow managed to transfer the lilo from hdb to hda and now the system shows the option to boot in linux or windows or fail-safe(i dont know this...guess sth like safe mode in Windows)

now still I dont have my wireless network adapter installed....i did not get the proper link for the ndiswrapper,,,so can anybody get me the exact download link for that module...is it a normal installation file??? I have not installed anything so far in the Linux :(

When I looked at the programs running, postgresql was disabled and I enabled it...httpd is running it said...i hope thats apache...there is no service with the name mysql.
how do i run mysql: in windows: i do, mysql -u username -ppassword;
how is it possible to install more packages in the LINUX cds the ones I did not install during the LINUX installation. do I have to boot from the cd to install them again or can access them from the desktop environment and just install few more packages??

is this services the same as services in Windows???
wot is the equivalent of a task manager in Windows???
I have got multiple desktop environments KDE, GNOME and others. I think the former two are the most popular ones...anybody can recommend which is the best to start using???

Thanks for helping a starter guys :)

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:47 am
by ambivalent
now still I dont have my wireless network adapter installed
http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=14972
There are some Belkin-related comments on the second page, but the whole thread is probably relevant..
how is it possible to install more packages in the LINUX cds
If you install the graphical package manager, it should be somewhere in the menu. If not, "rpm -1vh insertPkgName.rpm". Then there's the ./configure => make => su => make install route for software that's not in an RPM package. Look into urpmi too.
wot is the equivalent of a task manager in Windows???
"ps aux" will show running processes
I have got multiple desktop environments KDE, GNOME and others. I think the former two are the most popular ones...anybody can recommend which is the best to start using???
Whichever "feels right".

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 4:13 am
by Chris Corbyn
ambivalent wrote:
wot is the equivalent of a task manager in Windows???
"ps aux" will show running processes
ps -aux is great becuase it shows the full command that launched the process etc.

"top" works pretty well for showing resource usage pretty clearly too ;)