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I installed Mageia 3 on my Dell D630 Laptop and everything working great out of the box - even the wireless network picked up without sweat.

With that done, I decided to install it on my Desktop. It is a Core2duo machine with a Nvidia Geforce 6200 graphics card.

It did not go that well and I am not reinstalling the 4th time this morning.

When the installation is completed and I am logged in as a new user, the network cannot be configured due to the fact that the rpm database cannot be accessed either through the package manager, or through the network control centre.

I then used a rm -f /var/lib/rpm/_* which made the rpm database to work again, but as soon as I want to connect to the network, the GUI switch to a text screen with lot of text. It did manage though to install drivers for a USB Wi-Fi dongle successfully, but it gives a similar error as eth0 when I try to connect to the network.

I even tried to make the eth0 connect from the package installer and gets and error message.

What could this be? In 10 years of Linux, the network was the one thing that always worked 100% directly after install.

BTW, I installed the 64-bit version

OK, decided to file a bug report. I have te same problem with Mageia 3 i-586.

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10294

Although Mr sander85 was pretty snotty with me thinking that my problem was related to the ASUS one, the thread below did help to give me direction.

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=5021

I checked on my packages to see if networkmanager was installed, but for some reason it was not, so I installed it and configured my eth0 connection to use networkmanager.

After a reboot, it worked fine and my Wi-Fi is working too on the laptop. I will reinstall Mageia 3 on my desktop and try again.

Right, I installed Mageia 3 on the desktop and used the same trick. It worked.

I had to install networkmanager first and configure the eth0 interface to use that by clicking the option. It went into kernel panic again, but after the restart, all worked.

I am now installing wine and all those things.

Good to hear, your problem got solved koosjr.
Would you mind, marking the topic accordingly?

Thanks and a nice day!!!