Why would I only get 500-800 bits per second on my wireless adapter in
an old Compaq E500 machine equiped with a Cisco PCMCIA network adapter.
This is using Mandriva 2008.1. With 2008.0 I was getting well into the
megabits per second network rates. I'm stumped.

Thanks....

I just installed 2008.1, and I can't get the nVidia drivers to
install. I installed the xorg, dkms, and kernel package and still
have the "nv" drivers in my xorg.conf.

What do you have to do to get the nvidia drivers installed on 2008.1?

Is the Firefox 3.0 in the Mandriva repository the official release?

firefox-3.0-3mdv2008.1.i586 in the main backports is described as:

"This Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a preview release of Mozilla's next
generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing
purposes only."

And yet the changelog and datestamp suggests that this is based on the
Firefox 3.0 official release. I don't want to install release
candidates, when I've only got to wait a little while for a release, and
anyway, I've been having enough issues lately with various standard
2008.1 packages. And I'm not going to get the generic Linux version from
Mozilla, because although most people find them OK, there's likely to be
extra work involved in its future maintenance and update.

What's prompted this is that I stumbled across a site, the Washington
Post, that dumped on my Firefox 2.0.0.14. When I arrived at a story
there, after following a link from Digg, that page's Google-powered
rotating adverts popped up a very nasty "anti-virus" site.

DON'T VISIT THESE PAGES IF YOU'RE USING A MICROSOFT OS:

I had added a new email account to my domain but it could neither
successfully send nor receive. I gather that since Tiscali acquired F2S,
this is the kind of new feature that I can expect. As renewal comes up next
month, can someone recommend a reliable alternative?