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tinak
18th June 2008, 07:28 AM
Yum updated my kernel a few days ago and I'm having a strange problem. When I boot using the newer kernel - 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 - as soon as network manager starts to try and activate my wireless my system completely hangs - No Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc and Ctrl-Alt-Del response. It just hangs and oddly enough my caps lock key just blinks on and off. It took me a while to figure out what was actually causing this, but by turning off my wireless switch on my laptop and disabling network-manager allows the system to finish booting. I don't believe this is network-manager's fault because if I try to start the wireless manually the system hangs also. My wireless is a broadcom chipset that is using the b43 module that was installed with dangermouse's "autonine" script.

When I boot to the 2nd choice on GRUB menu - 2.6.25.4-30.fc9.x86_64 - I don't have this problem.
meowdin
18th June 2008, 07:46 AM
same problem, this is what i did, ndiswrapper might work too tho

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=191851
hyperspace
18th June 2008, 02:42 PM

Sorry for off-topic...

Sebastopol, Caly! I lived on Gravenstein Way for four years in Cotati. One of the many paradises on the planet. Thanx for reminding me!
tinak
18th June 2008, 04:52 PM
Thanks for the link! I'll check out that thread and see if it helps me out. Strange that it has to do with WEP only...

And yes, I love Sebastopol. Lived here my whole life and I really appreciate this area more and more :D
tinak
19th June 2008, 02:08 AM
The solution posted above seems to have solved this. Thanks!
hyperspace
19th June 2008, 05:10 AM
The solution posted above seems to have solved this. Thanks!Xcellent!

Thanx for letting us know.
Rykkan
23rd June 2008, 03:28 PM
I had problems with the above solution, probably a bug in the code cause it updates alot. but here is what i did.
To fix the Wireless WEP problem just goto http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/...o?buildID=52456 and select the proper format and install using rpm -Uvh filename.rpm and reboot and the new kernel problem is fixed in.
hyperspace
25th June 2008, 01:08 PM
Which kernel did you use? The link is not working.
Rykkan
25th June 2008, 11:55 PM
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/userinfo?userID=388 and its kernel-2.6.25.6-57.fc9