[Mageia-discuss] Mageia 2 Experiences

[imnotpc]

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