This problem with Mandrake 8.1 versus 8.2 is really starting to irritate me. Mandrake 8.1 ran really good on my notebook. The internal NIC and modem (both Conexant) didn't work. The USB has never worked with Linux (VIA). But everything else worked great....sound....video, etc.

I purchased a linksys cardbus pcm200, and 8.1 detects it. Great. Everything works.

8.2 came out and sounded like it was worth pursuing. I downloaded and installed it. It installed, but with problems:

1. The NIC wouldn't detect. I could manually select the tulip driver. If I inserted the LinkSys card, nothing would detect, but when I tried to "ifconfig eth0 up" there would be a device conflict (between it and the internal NIC). If I removed the LinkSys card, the internal nic wouldn't detect at all (during setup).

2. The machine hangs when I reboot. I get the "Rebooting" message, then I get the "COMPAQ" boot screen. The system freezes solid. I have to shut it off and do a cold boot to get back in. 8.1 never did this. RedHat 7.2 does this as well. What's causing it?

I even tried doing a very base install of 8.1, then did the "upgrade packages only" on 8.2. I couldn't get X or eth to start. Neither existed.

Does anyone have any ideas? I'm going nuts over this thing. I can't seem to figure it out.

Thanks ahead of time,

Jason

there is alot of updates now avalaible on ftps for mandrake 8.2 get them and see will it differ or not