Wow, why are soooo many things that were right in 7.0x wrong in 7.1. First,
let me start out by saying that I currently have a Dell Inspiron Laptop.
Let me say that I ran Mandrake 7.0 previously and have recently reformated
and installed 7.1.
Problem 1: I have a 3Comm 10/100 Lan+Modem PC Card (3ccfem556). Now when I
first installed 7.0 before, the device was discovered and configured
automatically during the install sequence .. no problems. When I installed
7.1, the installer did not recognize nor automatically configure the card.
When I tried to use the Ethernet Config utility, the card was not even on
the list of supported cards and I could not get it to work. But, this card
worked flawlessly with the previous version??? Why is this???
Problem 2: When the sound module is loaded during bootup (sounds card is a
Maestro) the bootup will hang and not recover, I will have to manually
reboot the computer. THis seems to happen about every other time I boot
into Linux. Once again, I never encountered this problem with 7.0.
Problem 3: I also use a MicroSoft Mouse Periodically that is connected via
USB on my laptop. Again, when I installed 7.0 it was automatically deteced
and I was able to use this device during an X-session. Now, when I install
7.1 the usb mouse support is very flakey, it does not always work. It
almost seems as if the built in mouse in the laptop is causing conflicts.
Once again though, I never encountered this probelm with Mandrake 7.0.
Let me also say that I have talked to other people who have encountered
these same problems so this is not an isolated case.
If anyone has any suggestions or helpful comments they would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks =)
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