UberCoder, it is hard to respect any knowledge you may have if you continue to look down on me as a clueless newbie. First of all dont insult anyone who decides to try something new and different. Second if my interest in linux isnt apparent enough, I spent a good week getting it installed, and then after the modem wouldnt work I ran out and bought a new one just so it would. Now if I posted saying "Windows keeps crashing so I'm giving up on windows" noone would think anything of it. My intention by posting is to not only find a solution to my problem and get this OS that I spent so much time on, to work right again, but also to warn new users linux is not free from problems and super stable like so many claim. I was sick of getting the same crap about my power supply when it wasnt the problem.

As for my hardware(which I am 90% sure is not to blame) I use a 433 mhz intel celeron processor, 288mb Ram, 4.3 gig hard drive, ISA Linux compatible 56k modem, pci network interface card, integrated AGP video card, 40x cdrom, and 8x cd burner. The sound card is integrated into the board and it works fine. I also use a ATA66 pci hard drive controller card. After I finally got Mandrake 8.1 installed these problems arose.

Dont go insulting me after all not many people even try linux, and even less have gone as far as I have. UberCoder:

[root@mybox audioluv]# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.8-26mdk ([email protected]) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)) #1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000012000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 73728
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 69632 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/hda1 hdh=ide-scsi devfs=mount BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
ide_setup: hdh=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 434.324 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 865.07 BogoMIPS
Memory: 287068k/294912k available (1086k kernel code, 7456k reserved, 397k data, 712k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([email protected])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdba1, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f76a0
PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f0000:6c04, dseg at f0000
PnPBIOS: PNP0c02: request 0x400-0x440 ok
PnPBIOS: PNP0c02: request 0x440-0x450 ok
PnPBIOS: PNP0c02: request 0x4d0-0x4d2 ok
PnPBIOS: PNP0c02: request 0xcf8-0xd00
PnPBIOS: PNP0c02: request 0x295-0x297 ok
PnP: 14 devices detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
devfs: v0.115 (20010827) Richard Gooch ([email protected])
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
block: queued sectors max/low 190117kB/63372kB, 576 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 90
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:12.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:12.1
HPT366: chipset revision 1
HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 91
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:12.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:12.0
HPT366: chipset revision 1
HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hd1: C/H/S=0/0/0 from BIOS ignored
hda: SAMSUNG SV0432D, ATA DISK drive
hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdh: PCRW804, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide3 at 0xeff0-0xeff7,0xefe6 on irq 11
hda: 8421840 sectors (4312 MB) w/480KiB Cache, CHS=8912/15/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ide-floppy driver 0.97
Partition check:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [PTBL] [524/255/63] p1 p2 < p5 p6 >
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
ide-floppy driver 0.97
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Uncompressing...done.
Freeing initrd memory: 32k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.18a
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:13.0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd2807f00, 00:c0:26:63:4d:54, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
Freeing unused kernel memory: 712k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
Adding Swap: 248968k swap-space (priority -1)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: PHILIPS Model: PCRW804 Rev: 2,1
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.259 $ time 17:30:17 Sep 23 2001
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0b.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef80, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.251:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
ip_tables: (c)2000 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack (2304 buckets, 18432 max)
PnPBIOS: Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at io=0378,0000 irq=7 dma=-1
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
IPVS: Connection hash table configured (size=4096, memory=32Kbytes)
IPVS: ipvs loaded.
eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000.
task `ip' exit_signal 17 in reparent_to_init
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:07.2
Crystal 4280/46xx + AC97 Audio, version 1.28.32, 17:27:37 Sep 23 2001
cs46xx: Card found at 0xfebef000 and 0xfea00000, IRQ 9
cs46xx: Card without SSID set (0000:0000) at 0xfebef000/0xfea00000, IRQ 9
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5913 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev A)
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
auditIN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=65.100.137.196 DST=65.165.53.31 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=51 ID=46744 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=2687 DPT=111 WINDOW=32120 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0