ZoneO-tips for Mandriva Linux

PaulW, 02 December 2006

I recently upgraded from Mandriva 2006 to Mandriva Linux Free 2007.

I have fixed the Device icon on my desktop, but when I attempt to look at and configure the hardware, the Control Center will still not detect any USB device connected to my laptop: keyboard, mouse, printer, floppy disk drive, whatever.

Checking the list of USB controllers and clicking on: Set driver options, produces the error: This driver has no configuration parameter!

However, when I boot from the installation disc, it has no trouble recognising my USB keyboard and mouse during the upgrade process.

What do I need to do to get everything working again?

By the way, I am fairly new to Linux, so please bear this in mind when posting a reply.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Butchu, 02 December 2006

Well, those are always hard to fix. However, I noticed a few things:

1- on computers with a fresh 2006 install, the upgrade went fine.

2- on computers with a 2006 that had been upgraded from a 10.1, the upgrade to 2007 wasn't great. The system had a lot of problems and I ended up reinstalling the whole thing. Since my /home is on another partition, I can do it fairly easily (BACK UP FIRST!). Since then, no problem...

Otherwise, you could post a question the Mandriva Club: http://forum.club.mandriva.com/

PaulW, 02 December 2006

Thanks for your helpful suggestions.

I have just done a clean install from a Mandriva One 2007 Live CD and all my USB hardware is now back in action.

Mandriva One even identified the make and model of my printer immediately and configured it without any hassle.

Problem solved.

PaulW, 05 December 2006

Unfortunately, after my previous comments, I soon found that my version of Mandriva One 2007 would not install the CUPS server, meaning that it could print a test page and nothing else.

I was also unable to use my favourite browser, Opera, due to the missing library libstdc++.so.5, or get any updates.

However, undeterred, I went back and did a fresh install of Mandriva Linux Free 2007 and I am very pleased to report that everything is now working better than ever.

The lesson, folks, appears to be: do not mess about with upgrades, go for a clean installation each time, if you want to avoid major problems.

Tim, 22 December 2006

"Unfortunately, after my previous comments, I soon found that my version of Mandriva One 2007 would not install the CUPS server, meaning that it could print a test page and nothing else.

I was also unable to use my favourite browser, Opera, due to the missing library libstdc++.so.5, or get any updates. "

Goto http://easyurpmi.zarb.org and setup the software repositories for the installer. By default the installer is setup to only see what's on the CD(s) which for One or Free isn't very much software.

Butchu, 27 December 2006

Also, see my previous tutorial on how to install software in Mandriva:

http://soft.zoneo.net/Linux/install-software.php

Happy Hollidays!

jsoule, 02 February 2007

I installed 2007 formating only my usr and root partitions. I tried the above solution but it didn't put my network in the "Devices" Desktop Config File. I re-installed 2006 and now my usb devices aren't coming up, but that is another problem.