[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 Experiences

Fri Apr 27 20:50:37 CEST 2012

I was not sure before, with the name, the correct name is "*kernel-firmware
+-extra*", you have to remove *ndiswrapper*, out of the "blacklist" atl1c.
+
+2012/4/27 imnotpc <imnotpc at rock3d.net>
+
+> 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.
+>
+
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