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

Lawrence Graves lgraves95 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 01:32:08 UTC 2011


On 12/01/2011 03:52 PM, Ian Malone wrote:
> Lawrence Graves<lgraves95 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648732
>> Based on this bug report, is there a fix for this problem. I am unable to
>> install my nvidia drivers because of this bug. I don't understand it at all.
>> Every time I installed the drivers and reboot this is the results. I don't
>> know why these two programs are in conflict but it seems they are. Will
>> somebody take a look at this problem.
>> I am running Fedora 16/64-bit on Dell 9400 Inspiron with a Quadro FX2500m
>> video card.
>>
>> The problem is what is preventing me from installing nvidia drivers. I
>> disabled the wifi firmware and used my wlan line to install and still get
>> the same results. Aggregation error.
>>
> Ian Malone wrote:
>> If you can set out: what you've tried to install the drivers, in what
>> way the install process fails or they don't work and any other
>> information you think is relevant such as why you think the iwl
>> problem is related then someone
>> may be able to help. Currently you're the only person with enough
>> information to investigate the problem.
>> - with more words. And steps.
>>
>> I'm going to take a guess based on what you've just said and suggest that:
>> 1. Your problem is actually that the yum install is not working due to
>> some kind of rpm database or connectivity issue.
>> 2. It has nothing specifically to do with either nvidia or intel wifi.
>>
>> But, honestly, I've no idea what you've done, what you're experiencing
>> or what problem you're trying to solve. So without more detail I'm
>> just going to have to stop here.
>>
> On 1 December 2011 20:57, Lawrence Graves<lgraves95 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I have done a yum install akmod-nvidia kmod-nvidia, reboot and the screen
>> flashes about three times and comes back with a list of the programs it
>> started and waiting for about 1 to 2 minutes and it gives me the message of
>> :Aggregation not enabled for tid 0 because load = 1, waiting a few more
>> minutes and it says the same thing again only it changes load =0 or 6 or 4
>> etc. This is all I can explain because I am not as technical as you are.
>> Sorry I can't do any
>> more.http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/404038
> Thank you, it's not in-depth technical analysis I wanted, just a
> literal description of what was happening.
>
> What you're describing (screen flashes three times and then changes to
> text mode) is X trying to start and failing. This does probably
> indicate the nvidia drivers aren't loading, by being in text mode
> you're also seeing any other startup errors, including a different and
> probably unrelated error from the iwl startup. You should be able to
> login in text mode by pressing Ctl-Alt-F2 to get a login prompt (or
> try F1 through to F8 if that doesn't work).
>
> At this point there are a few things that would be useful:
> 1. output of the command
> lsmod
> 2. Contents of /var/log/X.0.log
> 3. output of
> rpm -qa|grep nvidia
>
> If you're not able to copy things off the system then just these instead:
> lsmod |grep nv
> lsmod |grep nouveau
> grep EE /var/log/X.0.log
> rpm -qa|grep nvidia
>
This is all I could get. Hope this helps and thanks for your patience.

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