[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 Experiences

Fri Apr 27 18:49:05 CEST 2012

On 04/27/2012 12:02 PM, imnotpc wrote:
+>
+> I didn't use drakx11 but I did use drakconf->display which recognized 
+> the card and was able to successfully test it (this isn't necessarily 
+> new since the test also usually works during installation). This had 
+> no effect on the booting issue that I could tell.
+>
+> I did however get the bright idea to test x11 from the safe mode 
+> command line. I ran startx and it gave me a root desktop. I did ALT-F2 
+> and was able to start my normal user desktop from there. Video and 
+> sound work normally but networking is still down.
+>
+> If I attempt to run Network Manager or MCC->Network&Internet->Network 
+> Center the system locks up with a "Please wait" message.
+>
+> Getting safe mode to give me a command line is still iffy, but at 
+> least with a bit of effort I can get to my desktop. A little progress 
+> at least.
+>
+
+Arrggh.  I should have thought of this before, considering that it 
+afflicts my wife's Acer notebook.
+
+In the desktop you can get via safe mode, do MCC -> Hardware -> Browse 
+hardware, and see if the driver for your wired NIC is atl1c, and also 
+what your wireless driver is.  The atl1c driver is known to cause 
+sporadic system freezes when used in conjunction with a number of 
+wireless drivers.  Having the ethernet cable actually attached "fixes" this.
+
+I'm guessing now that your wired works during install because install 
+doesn't load any wireless drivers.  But once drakconnect or harddrake 
+looks for your wireless, the wireless driver will be loaded 
+automatically.  Very probably neither driver gets loaded in safe mode.
+
+If your wired driver is atl1c, try
+                       echo "blacklist atl1c" > /etc/modprobe.d/atl1c.conf
+and the reboot in normal mode.  If the system stops freezing, then 
+you'll have to live without either wired or wireless.  On most laptops, 
+disabling wired most of the time really isn't a problem.  If you really 
+need wired on some occasion, just change the atl1c in the above 
+blacklist command to whatever your wireless driver is, and you should be 
+fine.
+