Bug 648732 – Intel wireless broken on 11n for many users

[Lawrence Graves]

On 12/03/2011 01:46 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 3 December 2011 14:18, Lawrence Graves<lgraves95 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 2 December 2011 21:08, Lawrence Graves<lgraves95 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> On 12/02/2011 11:18 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
>>
>> On 02/12/11 12:04, Ian Malone wrote:
>>
>
> Ian Malone wrote:
>> It's just this series of 4 commands, run as root. (Don't enter the #
>> signs, they're just to mark the start of each line):
>>
>> # mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup-20111202
>> # nvidia-xconfig
>> # echo blacklist nouveau>>  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
>> # dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
>>
> Lawrence Graves<lgraves95 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I am very sorry but it didn't work. I got the same read out results. I
>> uninstall the nvidia drivers and reinstalled them and tried it a second time
>> with no results.
> Ian Malone wrote:
>> Were there any errors reported while running those commands? Has the
>> machine been rebooted?
>> If you do
>> lsmod |grep nouveau
>> Do you still see the nouveau module?
>> Does
>> lsmod |grep nv
>> Show the old nv module or nvidia?
>>
>> I'm wondering if it's necessary to reboot between after adding the
>> blacklist line and before doing dracut. If you reboot and nouveau is
>> not showing up with the 'lsmod|grep nouveau' above, then it may be
>> worth trying the dracut line again. Also the new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>> would be good to see.
>>
> Lawrence Graves<lgraves95 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Here is the results of your questions? I am very grateful to you for all
>> your help. See attached.
>>
> It looks like nouveau is still being loaded. If you can post the
> /etc/X11/xorg.org file and /var/log/Xorg.0.log that might help pin
> down the cause.
>
> However, I think I missed out a necessary option for the dracut
> command, try (again don't type the # they just indicate separate lines
> run as root):
> # mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img.bak
> # dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
>
> (For the record: I meant to suggest dracut -f which would force
> overwrite of the existing initramfs file, however it's probably safer
> to move it to a backup as in the two lines above.)
>
> Sorry this is taking so much back-and-forth, I've been on your end of
> this kind of thing and I know it's frustrating.
>
Sorry, I forgot to give you this log.
-- 
Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
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