[Mageia-discuss] Release candidate trial

Tue May 22 12:29:24 CEST 2012

On 22/05/12 10:08, nicolas vigier wrote:
+> On Tue, 22 May 2012, Len Lawrence wrote:
+>
+>> Dell XPS m1730, Intel Core Duo 2, x86_64, nvidia graphics.
+>> Mageia 1 running perfectly.
+>>
+>> Have at last got round to installing RC-2.  Thought it wise to
+>> experiment with an old laptop as my Magaeia 2 system is now my main
+>> workstation.  The installation went very smoothly but the display
+>> would not work - flashing red, green, blue, white, black screens
+>> forever.  Fell back on the nv driver and booted into GNOME Classic OK.
+>> No wireless so over to ethernet.  OK.
+>>
+>> One minor problem was no backspace to start with.  After switching to
+>> gdm that went away.
+>>
+>> The main problem at this stage is no media updates.  The DVD appears
+>> in the list as the only update medium and any attempt to add the full
+>> list of sources hits this error:
+>>
+>> "...retrieving failed, curl failed, exited with 9"
+>>
+>> "Unable to access the distribution medium (no media.cfg file found)"
+>>
+>> Using aria2 as downloader gives error 4 and wget error 8.
+>>
+>> /etc/release = Mageia 2 release (Cauldron) for x86_64
+>> /etc/urpmi contains mediacfg.d =>  Devel and Official
+>> Devel,,, contains media.cfg
+> This was probably due to some mirrors not having the Mageia 2 tree yet.
+> This should be fixed now.
+>
+Yes, thanks, I managed to set up all the sources.
+
+Looked at the 3945 wireless problem again and found that the switch 
+which I thought controlled Bluetooth actually enables wireless (senile 
+old git).  So, wlan0 comes up but cannot connect.  I tried restarting 
+the router, to no avail.  Rebooted - still no connection.  The blue LED 
+is on.  Tried ifup wlan0 and was told that it was configured with a 
+roaming daemon (or something) but was not associated, even though I had 
+configured it a dozen times; SSID, wpa2/wpa, encryption key... and 
+switched off roaming.  What next?
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