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With the new kernel 2.6.9-1.724_FC3 just released, I downloaded and ran dldrinstall.run. After re-booting, networking came up perfect! Congratulations on a great new install. It not only installed easily, but works with having a separate partition for /var. And it appears that I won't have to download each time a new kernel is release. <BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
Clifford<BR>
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 11:03 -0500, Linuxant support (Jonathan) wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">it seems that when the DriverLoader module is inserted into the kernel, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">it is unable to find the Windows driver you have uploaded. Since </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">re-inserting the DriverLoader module in the kernel when the machine is </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">fully booted (dldrconfig --dumpdiag does re-load the DriverLoader </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">module), it is quite possible that the problem is that the partition </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">holding the '/var/lib/driverloader' directory is not mounted at the </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">moment the 'driverloader' service is started.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">If this is the source of the problem, you could adjust the starting </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">order of your services to fix this issue.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Alternatively, under Fedora Core 3, you could add the following lines at </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the end of your '/etc/rc.local' file :</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">---</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">dldrstop</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">modprobe driverloader</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">ifup <iface></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">---</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">You should replace '<iface>' with the name of your wireless interface, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">for example, eth1.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Regards,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Jonathan</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Technical specialist / Linuxant</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://www.linuxant.com">www.linuxant.com</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="mailto:support@linuxant.com">support@linuxant.com</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Clifford Snow wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I'm running Fedora Core 3 on a Dell 600m laptop using Linuxant drivers.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Recently I repartitioned my hard drive to add a /var partition. I moved</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> the data from the old partition to the new. Except for loading the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> driverloader, everything works like it did before. Now when I boot the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> system, my wireless network does not start. I receive the following</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> dmesg error:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/bcmwl5.sys: unable to open</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> (err=-2)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> driverloader: unable to load "bcmwl5.sys" (-2)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> driverloader: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -2</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> driverloader: /var/lib/driverloader/bcmwl5.sys: unable to open</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> (err=-2)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> driverloader: unable to load "bcmwl5.sys" (-2)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> driverloader: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -2</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Running dldrconfig --dumpdiag solves the problem. It goes ahead and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> loads the windows drivers. Or I can load the drivers from</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> <A HREF="http://127.0.0.1:8020">http://127.0.0.1:8020</A> by clicking on reload.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I've removed driverloader using "rpm -e driverloader" and have deleted</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> and reinstalled the windows drivers with no success. </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Any suggestions?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> </FONT>
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Clifford Snow <<A HREF="mailto:clifford@snowandsnow.us">clifford@snowandsnow.us</A>>
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