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Today I had a new install of Mandriva 2008 linux. I wrote a java code to test the mysql connectivity. It ended with the following exception.

com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications link failure
Last packet sent to the server was 0 ms ago.

Alas, deeper google search gives me a solution that told about the mysql connectivity parameter in /etc/my.cnf

skip-networking

This parameter has been added for some security related reasons. Really I dont know what it is. I just removed that line, which solved this issue.

Currently i dont have Mandriva spring. But I need to install Linux immediately to continue one of my previous development projects. So I installed on of the older versions of MDK, Mandriva 2006.

This time i found it is very easy to use USB devices with Mandriva. I could see USB thumbdrives are detected automatically and mounted. I could see the necessary icons in the desktop as soon as those devices are mounted properly.

Have fun, my mobile also beautifully working with that, yes, I could see both my phone memory and card storage on the desktop.

Hi,
I wish to document this for a long time, since many home linux users are facing trouble here in Chennai, while configuring broadband connection. I have configured the major service providers of India, Airtel and VSNL without any problem with Mandriva. here are some screenshots.

I am sorry, the images are in descending order