Their Linux support forum has a thread about getting it to work under Mandriva 2008.1, which is what you say you use, and the steps to achieve that look pretty simple: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51174&page=3 I also suggest you spend some time learning how to use your OS. It's quite obvious from this thread that you don't have a clue about some very basic things, and until you learn them, you're going to have trouble getting anything to work.