[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 Experiences

Mon May 7 03:38:45 CEST 2012

On 04/29/2012 01:28 PM, imnotpc wrote:
+> On 04/29/2012 11:05 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
+>> On 04/27/2012 02:28 PM, imnotpc wrote:
+>>>
+>>> lsmod | grep atl didn't get any hits and lsmod | grep b43 gives this:
+>>>
+>>
+>>>
+>>> 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.
+>>>
+>> Sounds right.  In that case, file a bug against the b43 driver for 
+>> your chipset.
+>
+> Bug report is here for anyone interested:
+>
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5682
+>
+> My thanks to Frank and the others who offered help. It's this kind of 
+> community support that puts Mageia ahead of the other distros and the 
+> reason I'm migrating all my systems to Mageia (even the temperamental 
+> laptops).
+>
+> Jeff
+
+For the record, the timing issue that disrupted the safe mode boot was 
+resolved with updated packages, most likely drakx-net. I've been told 
+that the main problem has been resolved in the upstream 3.3.5 kernel 
+which will be our release kernel.
+
+Jeff
+