my 1998 mazda 626 wont engage into gear.?

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before this happend, my car would kind of jump into third gear after 3500 rpm's( while still in 2nd gear). i went to leave in my car a minute ago, my car would not engage into gear. i pressed the button on my gearshift, and pulled it into R. when i did that it felt loose, like it had no tention to it. i thought wow, wierd. i pressed the accellerator, and it reved up like neutral. im no mechanic but is this possibly a linkage problem?.
 
pop open hood and take tranny cable off and move the shift lever by hand, if it moves smoothly, it's either the linkage in the console under the shifter, or you need to take a small allen wrench and loosen the shifter knob and pull the knob off, or if you notice it's e entirealready sloppy, push down on the knob and tighten the allen, if that doesn't help, your spring is broken in the knob that takes it out of gear and holds tention on everything, go to junk yard and get a knob off another one, make sure the spring and the ball bearing stay in it, and swap it out and tighten the allen well.
 
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