Sh4wn
28th September 2011, 06:10 PM
Hi guys,
I've replaced my original Atheros based wireless PCIE mini card inside my laptop with the Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 PCIE laptop card, because I want to get rid of the buggy ath9k driver.
But unfortunately, with the new card in place, Fedora (and Arch Linux too btw) refuses to boot. Somewhere in between the time the empty Fedora logo appears and starts filling and the end of that, it completely freezes. No cursor blinking, no log message appearing, not be able to switch from graphical boot mode (fedora logo filling) to the 'log mode', where all boot messages appear.
Before I installed F16 Beta, I had Arch Linux on my laptop which had the same problem. But with arch sometimes the following message appeared:
iwlagn error sending REPLY_CALIBRATE_PHY_CMD
error -110 iteration 0
Not sure this was the exact message, but it was something like that.
Ok, so probably there could be tons of reasons why my laptop won't start. But when I put my old ath9k based card back in, it does boot, so it has to do something with the new card.
Am I missing some drivers/firmware? Is the card not supported with the rest of the hardware (it's just PCIE, so why wouldn't it?), maybe something with the BIOS?
Any help is greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance,
sh4wn
I've replaced my original Atheros based wireless PCIE mini card inside my laptop with the Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 PCIE laptop card, because I want to get rid of the buggy ath9k driver.
But unfortunately, with the new card in place, Fedora (and Arch Linux too btw) refuses to boot. Somewhere in between the time the empty Fedora logo appears and starts filling and the end of that, it completely freezes. No cursor blinking, no log message appearing, not be able to switch from graphical boot mode (fedora logo filling) to the 'log mode', where all boot messages appear.
Before I installed F16 Beta, I had Arch Linux on my laptop which had the same problem. But with arch sometimes the following message appeared:
iwlagn error sending REPLY_CALIBRATE_PHY_CMD
error -110 iteration 0
Not sure this was the exact message, but it was something like that.
Ok, so probably there could be tons of reasons why my laptop won't start. But when I put my old ath9k based card back in, it does boot, so it has to do something with the new card.
Am I missing some drivers/firmware? Is the card not supported with the rest of the hardware (it's just PCIE, so why wouldn't it?), maybe something with the BIOS?
Any help is greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance,
sh4wn
