I have a HP Pavilion a1350n with a Linksys PCI network card installed EG1032v3 and a Canon I550 printer.

I want to install Mandriva Spring 2007 power pack

1. Will I have problems with the Linksys network card?
I assume I will, I have the Linksys cd and it has a linux driver on it. It needs to be compiled before it can be installed, during a normal install will I have the tools automatically installed that will allow me to compile and install this driver if I need to?

2. Is this printer supported in Mandriva, does anyone know where to get a driver for this printer or can suggest an alternative driver?

3. After the install, I want to recompile the kernel and get rid of the unnecessary stuff, will I need any special packages to have the tools and sources I need to recompile the kernel?

Thanks

Check out the HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) at mandriva's web site.

Make sure you install the dev (developement) packages so you can compile.

That should include kernel-source (for the kernel version installed) and ncursors-devel, that should set up a short list of dependencies that will also need to be installed.

See how you go, come back and ask more questions if required.

Cheers, Glenn

Thanks GlennsPref
I did go and check the HCL and my card was not listed
However I had a built in card on my motherboard that was listed
I had disabled it in windows, so I reenabled it and moved the network cable and tested it in windows and it works fine
its a Realtek 8139 only 10/100 and old but it worked fine for years.
so I set it up as the primary network card in my new install and it said it was fine, I set it to enable at boot
the install went fine but the network card link light went out and would not come back on when I booted to linux
linux reported the card was ok, but attempts to connect or ping anything failed, it will ping itself.

booting back to windows and the link lights come back on and windows can connect just fine.
back to linux and the link light goes out and stays out.

so I tried an /sbin/ifconfig and it reports the realtek 8139 is there and has the manually (static ip)I set for it.
as eth0. /sbin/ifconfig/eth0 up, fails with user has no permission to execute this command
/sudo -l says this user has no sudo privleges
attempts to get root fail
I tried to log in as root, but thats not allowed
I logged in as user, and then tried to switch to root, but I guess I don't quite understand how
/sbin/lspci shows the device
and /sbin/lsmod shows the driver
it seems that its just not up for this user

btw I got the printer installed and even watched part of a dvd in linux and it seems fine, its just this problem with the network card thats still messing me up

Thanks

Ok!!!!!
resolved the issue with the nic card and in fact I am on Mandriva Linux as I write this.

The solution was this, windows disabled the card on shutdown and the linux driver did not know how to enable it on boot, that was so nice of windows and the solution was goto windows control panel, to system, then to hardware, then to the network card and properties, look for the wake on lan setting and enable wake on lan, this prevents windows from disabling the card on shut down and now you can boot into linux and it works.

Consider this issue resolved

Printer, installed cups and installed Canon I550 printer, there is no I550 driver but the BJC8200 works pretty well

Consider this issue resolved as well

Thanks all for your help

No worries, looks like you basically did your self.

Thanks for posting back the solution.

Cheers, Glenn