[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 Experiences

Fri Apr 27 20:28:23 CEST 2012

On 04/27/2012 01:54 PM, Frank Griffin wrote:
+> On 04/27/2012 01:00 PM, imnotpc wrote:
+>>
+>> Yes, and success! I have an Acer also but it uses the b43 driver. 
+>> Since the gui tools locked up I went back to drakconnect and tried to 
+>> configure the wireless interface. It required firmware files but I 
+>> installed them using my key drive the same way I installed the kernel 
+>> firmware package. After I successfully installed the firmware the 
+>> system boots normally and both NICs work.
+>>
+>> Is this a known bug? If not, what package should I file a bug report 
+>> against?
+>>
+> If you google "linux freeze atl1c" you'll get a bunch of hits, but 
+> it's not really clear which driver is causing the problem.  Probably 
+> atl1c, since not all of those affected are using Broadcom wireless.
+
+lsmod | grep atl didn't get any hits and lsmod | grep b43 gives this:
+
+b43                   392212  0
+rng_core               13292  1 b43
+bcma                   35012  1 b43
+mac80211              440190  1 b43
+cfg80211              199805  2 mac80211,b43
+ssb                    62651  1 b43
+pcmcia                 61681  2 ssb,b43
+mmc_core              114404  4 sdhci,sdhci_pci,ssb,b43
+
+Unless it uses a different name I don't think my laptop uses the atl1c 
+driver. I don't think it's a bug in the b43 firmware since that works 
+fine once it's installed. I would guess it's a hardware probe of some 
+sort that locks up when it encounters the wireless NIC without firmware.
+