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

[John Pilkington]

On 02/12/11 12:04, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 2 December 2011 08:46, John Pilkington<J.Pilk at tesco.net>  wrote:
>> This looks as if it could be another instance of the problems with
>> nvidia 290.10   Try reverting or going to the new 'long-lived' 275.36
>>
>> Several examples on the atrpms-users list.
>>
No, I'm not sure at all:  I just saw the 290.10 packages and knew that 
several people, including me, had reported segfaults etc that have gone 
away after one of the options I suggested.

>
> Are you sure? From the lsmod and Xorg it looks like nouveau is being
> loaded, and nvidia is not.
>
> If Lawrence has network access in text only mode I would suggest as root:
> yum reinstall xorg-x11-drv-nvidia nvidia-settings akmod-nvidia
> kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs
> nvidia-xconfig
>
> (All one line)
>
> If that doesn't help or there's no net access then (again as root),
> first line is moving the file to a backup with today's date:
> mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup-20111202
> nvidia-config-display
> echo blacklist nouveau>>  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf
> dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)
>
> This (in order), moves your current Xorg configuration to a backup
> file, uses nvidia-config-display to create a new one, tells the system
> not to use the nouveau driver (you'll need to undo this if you ever
> want to use nouveau) and creates a new initrd with nouveau excluded.
> Let us know how you get on.
>