[Mageia-discuss] Where is ruby and Golan support?

[Len Lawrence]

Not sure if this is the place to bring up installation issues but here goes.

Downloaded my very first ISO and burnt it to DVD.  Installed Mageia 1 on 
laptop without difficulty except the one which has happened in every one 
of my 60-70 Linux installs over the past 15 years, no network access 
during installation so no way of installing any upgrades until after the 
reboot.  Anyway the GNOME desktop came up fully customized exactly as on 
Mandriva but none of my home grown programs upon which my life depends 
would run => no ruby.  All the media sources available were installed 
but urpmi could not find anything to do with ruby except a few KDE 
development packages.  Does anybody know where ruby for Mageia lives?  
And, if it is not available is there any likelihood that the Mandriva 
RPMs would install properly in Mageia?

Post install Mageia 1 was unable to start up wlan which had been running 
happily under Mandriva 2010.1 from an Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 
3945 ABG [Golan] device, vintage 2008.  The wireless LED never comes on 
so no local networks listed.

Like many  users I am very grateful for the time and effort the 
community has put into helping Mandriva refugees like me.  It looks like 
a huge job but unfortunately I cannot offer any help re missing packages 
because I am a fulltime carer and housekeeper for my invalid wife and, 
yes I know, everybody has problems.

Best regards

Len