Trouble With MandrakeLinux

[Dissipate]

I'm having trouble with MandrakeLinux 10.1 . When I went to install it, I noticed right off the bat that it wasn't able to detect my mouse. After installation and during the boot process it hangs at the part where it says: detecting hardware.

I'm running USB 1.1 on an Abit KD7 Mothboard with a standard USB mouse connected to a standard DLINK USB hub and I also have a standard Microsoft MN-510 USB WLAN adapter.

Also, everything was fine while I was running Knoppix 3.7 off of Live CD. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Remove the USB hub.
Any errors before it hangs? Is it hanging or just taking a long time?

 

[Dissipate]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Remove the USB hub.
Any errors before it hangs? Is it hanging or just taking a long time?

I assume it is hanging because I let it sit there for quite awhile. When I reboot and it is doing the kills, it fails to kill some USB process.

I'll try without the USB hub, but I doubt it will work.

Oh yeah, another thing is that at some point during the startup process my USB devices light up. Then when it is doing the detect hardware part they go off again.

 

[Dissipate]

Well, I tried it without the hub and it still didn't work. I was able to get past the hang on the startup process by skipping the hardware detection part in the 'interactive' mode. However, once in KDE my mouse and WLAN adapter do not work.

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: Dissipate
Well, I tried it without the hub and it still didn't work.

Did you reinstall the system after removing the hub, or just remove the hub from the system as it had been installed before? It shouldn't matter in theory, of course, but if the installer had problems with the mouse when the system was first installed there may be some leftover junk that's keeping things from working. It should certainly be possible to fix things from where you're at now, but if you don't know what you're looking for a reinstall will end up being faster. When Mandrake breaks, it tends to break pretty hard.

I tend to think that the mouse issue is because of the hub in some way - USB mice are pretty simple creatures, and shouldn't cause any problems at this point. The wireless WLAN issue, on the other hand, could be a driver problem. Did that also work in Knoppix?

 

[Dissipate]

I got it working. All I has to do was turn ASPI off. Thanks for tying to help.