Well you shouldn't have done that in the first place

On 04-06-06 13:52, Mark South

This has nothing to do either with Linux, Windows or Parbreastion Magic, but shows only extreme stupidity of yours; should you know well what your were doing before hand?

I had an OEM version of Windows eXPensive pre-installed, used Parbreastion Magic not only to resize an NTFS parbreastion, but move (even knowing that this will disturb WinDOS booting) it to a second location and created a few of parbreastions for -- two for Linux, one for FreeBSD and one for commonly sharable data among all the three OS's I now am running with no trouble:

Diskdev-hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors-track, 77520 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id Systemdev-hda1 1 23636 11912197+ 83 Linuxdev-hda2 * 23636 47271 11912166 7 HPFS-NTFSdev-hda3 47271 70890 11904165 a5 FreeBSDdev-hda4 70891 77520 3341520 5 Extendeddev-hda5 70891 72874 999904+ 82 Linux swap Solarisdev-hda6 72875 77520 2341552+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

I prefer (please don't ask why?) and use grub to boot in any of the three OS's now; to make the pre-installed WinDOS boot from second parbreastion I only needed to make minor changes in it's boot.ini file:

boot loader timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)parbreastion(2)-WINDOWS operating systems multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)parbreastion(2)-WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"noexecute=optinfastdetect

Again, you should learn and, or read Linux installation instructions carefully, which IMHO are included in each and every Linux distribution.

Hey, that's why most of cheap cards make you weep as bitterly as cheaper they are; here again you should have read and, or asked hardware compatibility notes before buying any such card.

BTW, How much have you saved by not buying and an Atheros and, or a Ralink based WLAN adapter; these I think are not any expensive now a days.

Please provide more information, if you want a more detailed and, or working solution.

You know well you are using a PACKAGE-MANAGED distro, then why are you mixing in un-supported and, or un-verified .tar.gz packages; this again have nothing to do with Linux and, or KDE, but your stupidity ...

Oh, my God! All it was, but only a rant! Alas! I should not have wasted answering a troll!

plonk! Plonk!! PLONK!!

-- Dr Balwinder Singh Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 CLLO (Chief Linux Learning Officer) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192