Yup, although the machine was running Ubuntu, disable wifi and it just locks up halfway through booting.

It is weird.

Matthew

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I've not had that problem on my 9400. I do that fairly frequently when flying.

If you have a npt time sync started as a service you might try turning that off. It could be its waiting forever for that to come up.

If you mean ntp, i don't have any ntp server setup, and at home i don't have an AP, so it isn't syncronizing through wifi or anything like that anyway....

Have you pressed escape to watch the messages and see where its hanging?

The last line is always something about the floppy drive (not detected i guess), but that's normal, can't see any errors, it just hangs there....

Some times you can press ctrl-C to abort the single process that is holding up boot. (Provided it is not a basic hardware glitch).

If none of the above work, zip on over to the dell site and see if there is new bios.

Already got the latest Bios....

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On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 14:14 +0100, Russell Jones wrote:

Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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Anybody has this problem?, i can't boot a Dell Inspiron 6400 with Wifi disabled (Fn+F2), the boot process just hangs on some point. But if i reenable the wifi card and reset the laptop it just boots fine, weird.... What stage(s) in the boot process does the hang occur (what was the last message displayed?). What happens if you press ctrl+C at that point?

Is the wireless device ipw3945? If so, I have the same issue with Dell Lat D820. No solution yet? Awaiting new ipw3945 src - seems that when the wireless killswitch is enabled the module wont stand up properly. To see if it this is the problem, try renaming the ipw3945.ko file in /lib/modules/<ver>/updates (or where ever its located on your system) Then reboot. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 02:14 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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Is the wireless device ipw3945? It is.. If so, I have the same issue with Dell Lat D820. No solution yet? Awaiting new ipw3945 src - seems that when the wireless killswitch is enabled the module wont stand up properly.

To see if it this is the problem, try renaming the ipw3945.ko file in /lib/modules/<ver>/updates (or where ever its located on your system) Then reboot. To reboot with the kill switch activated or not?, what would that change?

Rename file and boot with kill switch activated (killed). See if it boots - hence confirming it's the ipw3945 module. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 00:15 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

2007/3/27, Hans van der Merwe :

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On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 02:14 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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Is the wireless device ipw3945? It is.. If so, I have the same issue with Dell Lat D820. No solution yet? Awaiting new ipw3945 src - seems that when the wireless killswitch is enabled the module wont stand up properly.

To see if it this is the problem, try renaming the ipw3945.ko file in /lib/modules/<ver>/updates (or where ever its located on your system) Then reboot. To reboot with the kill switch activated or not?, what would that change?

Rename file and boot with kill switch activated (killed). See if it boots - hence confirming it's the ipw3945 module.

I've done it, it boots normally with the module renamed

Ciro

I'll send a bug report. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:55 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote:

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 10:27 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote:

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On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 00:15 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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2007/3/27, Hans van der Merwe :

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On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 02:14 -0400, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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Is the wireless device ipw3945? It is.. If so, I have the same issue with Dell Lat D820. No solution yet? Awaiting new ipw3945 src - seems that when the wireless killswitch is enabled the module wont stand up properly.

To see if it this is the problem, try renaming the ipw3945.ko file in /lib/modules/<ver>/updates (or where ever its located on your system) Then reboot. To reboot with the kill switch activated or not?, what would that change?

Rename file and boot with kill switch activated (killed). See if it boots - hence confirming it's the ipw3945 module.

I've done it, it boots normally with the module renamed

Ciro

I'll send a bug report.

I found: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/63418

But no mention at ipw3945 sourceforge page

Maybe a kernel issue? Apparently only affects 2.6.17-8 and later.

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On Sunday 08 April 2007 02:04, Ciro Iriarte wrote:

Where goes the feature requests?, found about some utility to control BT and WIFI on dell laptops, it's called dellWirelessCtl and comes on the libsmbios package.

Repository: http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/ Source: http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/download/libsmbios/

There are 2 places where you can put your request http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Wishlist http://bugzilla.novell.com/ One option is factory mail list opensuse-factory@opensuse.org where you can explain request. I don't know which is the best. Developers are monitoring all 3, but feeback you can get on bugzilla and mail list. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

2007/3/26, Russell Jones :

Ciro Iriarte wrote:

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Anybody has this problem?, i can't boot a Dell Inspiron 6400 with Wifi disabled (Fn+F2), the boot process just hangs on some point. But if i reenable the wifi card and reset the laptop it just boots fine, weird.... What stage(s) in the boot process does the hang occur (what was the last message displayed?). What happens if you press ctrl+C at that point? It dies after saying it can't find a floppy frive (don't remember the exact sentense, sorry.. Tried many times ctrl-c combination but nothing happends..

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