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

[Lawrence Graves]

On 12/03/2011 03:37 AM, Ian Malone 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:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> On 2 December 2011 14:06, Lawrence Graves<lgraves95 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> I am not sure as to how to do that.
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 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.
>
Here is the results of your questions? I am very grateful to you for all 
your help. See attached.
-- 
Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
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