Fedora 16 Freezes after log-in

[allenfritts1]

Hey all! I am attempting to dual-boot fedora 16 with windows 7 on an Acer 5250-BZ455. It has an AMD E-350 processor, AMD Radeon HD 6310 graphics card, and 3 gigs of DDR3 Memory. After install, the system boots well the first couple of times then begins to hang after log-in. Any suggestions?

Allenfritts1

[allenfritts1]

Update: After logging into windows 7, Fedora usually gets "jealous" and boots. I am, however, having another problem. Fedora apparently does not like my wireless card. It all works fine, once you get a wireless network to connect automatically. Trying to add a new wireless network is a pain in the butt because it will often freeze after typing in the password. I believe it is a problem during the actual connecting sequence because this doesn't happen if you enter the wrong password... Any help? PLEEEASE?

[sea]

Whats the output of:

dmesg|grep EE
dmesg|grep Wireless
dmesg|grep wifi

[allenfritts1]

Sorry about my absense...

dmesg|grep EE gave this output:
[0.000000] 3 base 0AEEBD000 mask FFFFFF000 uncachable
[22.547134] ath: EEPROM reg domain: 0x65
[22.547143] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map

For some reason, dmesg|grep Wireless and dmesg|grep wifi gave no output at all... just went down to the next line.

Does this help? (not very good at this stuff, so I have no idea what this means).

[PiElle]

What's the kernel's version?
May be this thread is related?
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=275753

[allenfritts1]

No... It's different... The wireless works fine if the system can get past the freeze... It's very strange. I really don't have any explanation. (obviously, since I am posting this question)... Strangely, Kubuntu and Ubuntu (11.10) both do the same thing. (hopefully haven't broken sacred protocol by mentioning those here :-). For the record, I liked Fedora better... but I'm now running Kubuntu because the new Update somehow destroyed most of my data, ruined Grub and, through a series of unfortunate events, wiped my entire hard drive, including the windows side :-(. So... now all I've got is linux.

Back to the problem, I think it may actually be an inherent problem with the wireless card itself... I believe it was using the ATHEROS chipset, but I can't remember which one... What is the command to check that again?

Thanks again for your help!

[sea]

Hmm you might try this:

for e in Wirel wifi EE ather Ather ATHER; do dmesg|grep $e; done

EDIT:
for me this returns only:

[ 15.640119] Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192sefw.bin

as i dont have an Atheros wifi...

Hope this helps.

[sukool]

same problem here.
i am also using dual boot win7/f16
but it hangs after i login. i don't have wifi card. i use lan. the screen blinks a few times then hangs completely.
my specs:
AMD X6 3.0Ghz
ATI 5670 1Gb
1 tb HDD
4 gb ram
MotherBoard: Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H