Hi, I'm a newbie to Linux. I'm planning to give Mandriva a whirl. I hunted around and found that there is an open source driver for my modem ( Speed Touch 330 ) for the Mandrake distro. Will all apps/drivers work on Mandriva the same as Mandrake? If not, then may have to opt for Redhat.

Thanks in advance :-)

I thought Mandrake and Mandriva are almost the same thing, just that they're distributed in a different fashion or something. If that's true, then yes, the drivers should work just fine. If Mandriva and Mandrake have some "big" differencies, like differencies in their file system structure (unlikely), then you might bump into trouble, but I myself guess it works.

As a sidenote, one can (try to) install Debian .deb packages into Ubuntu (that is Debian-based), and they might work even though Ubuntu is different from Debian; it depends on how different the two are, and with Mandrake/Mandriva my guess is they don't differ too much.

Mandriva was Mandrake up until release 10.2 (give or take a release). Then it became Mandriva when it bought/merged with Conectiva. Any "Mandrake" drivers you find are simply older, and have a reasonable chance of working. (The older it is, the less chance of working correctly, of course.)

I've run Mandriva 2006 for almost a year now and everytime I tried to use a Mandrake driver it failed or did not work. I gave up on trying to use the older Mandrake drivers. Just my opinion.

Ah, ok!

Thanks a lot for the help, guys. It's appreciated.

http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/in...wnload.en.html
the source driver is above
You will have to compile it, see the sticky about tar.gz in the forum
(do not try older mandrake packages on a new version of mandriva)
Do not go for mandriva 10 or 10.1, go for 2006 or 2007

Excellent advice in any case.

Thanks for the help, guys :-)