Re: [CentOS] Netinstall wants to use wlan0

2011-12-09 Thread Jeff Gordon
Vylder wrote: Hi Jeff, You can use Alt + F3 or Alt + F4 once you're inside the installer to open a console. If you disable the wlan0 interface before the network part of the installer you should be ok. Regards, Tom On 08 Dec 2011, at 10:13, Jeff Gordon wrote: Hi, Bert

Re: [CentOS] Netinstall wants to use wlan0

2011-12-09 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:06:18AM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 12/08/2011 10:13 AM, Jeff Gordon piše: Hi, Bert -- Thanks. :-) Doesn't seem to be an opportunity or way to open a console before this problem comes up, with netinstall. I just scanned to see if there might

Re: [CentOS] Netinstall wants to use wlan0

2011-12-09 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 11:14:08AM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 12/08/2011 10:38 AM, Jeff Gordon piše: Hi, John -- Thanks. :-) Looks like it'd be Fn + F3 on this one, but I suspect they set it up to work that way with Windows. There's no light to be seen anywhere

Re: [CentOS] Netinstall wants to use wlan0

2011-12-09 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 01:38:04PM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 12/08/2011 08:11 AM, Jeff Gordon wrote: Hi, Folks -- I'm setting up an Acer Aspire 5250 as a Christmas gift, CentOS 6 netinstall insists on trying to configure wlan0 but I'm using a wired DSL connection, consequently

Re: [CentOS] Netinstall wants to use wlan0

2011-12-09 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:05:23AM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Coming into this late Scott Robbins wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 01:38:04PM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 12/08/2011 08:11 AM, Jeff Gordon wrote: Hi, Folks -- I'm setting up an Acer Aspire 5250 as a Christmas

Re: [CentOS] Netinstall wants to use wlan0

2011-12-09 Thread Jeff Gordon
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 02:14:33AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 03:05:47 -0500 Jeff Gordon wrote: Thanks. :-) Didn't work, though -- those key combinations got me to console screens but not with an actionable prompt. I tried typing commands into them anyway, but CentOS

[CentOS] Netinstall wants to use wlan0

2011-12-08 Thread Jeff Gordon
Hi, Folks -- I'm setting up an Acer Aspire 5250 as a Christmas gift, CentOS 6 netinstall insists on trying to configure wlan0 but I'm using a wired DSL connection, consequently netinstall fails and only offers the option to Retry. How can I get it to bypass the wlan0 idea and go straight to

Re: [CentOS] Netinstall wants to use wlan0

2011-12-08 Thread Jeff Gordon
... -- Jeff -- On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:34:10AM +0100, Fabien Archambault wrote: On 12/08/2011 09:11 AM, Jeff Gordon wrote: Hi, Folks -- I'm setting up an Acer Aspire 5250 as a Christmas gift, CentOS 6 netinstall insists on trying to configure wlan0 but I'm using a wired DSL connection

Re: [CentOS] Netinstall wants to use wlan0

2011-12-08 Thread Jeff Gordon
: On 12/08/2011 09:34 AM, Fabien Archambault wrote: On 12/08/2011 09:11 AM, Jeff Gordon wrote: Hi, Folks -- I'm setting up an Acer Aspire 5250 as a Christmas gift, CentOS 6 netinstall insists on trying to configure wlan0 but I'm using a wired DSL connection, consequently netinstall fails

Re: [CentOS] Netinstall wants to use wlan0

2011-12-08 Thread Jeff Gordon
: On 12/08/11 12:52 AM, Jeff Gordon wrote: Thanks. :-) I removed two screws that seemed to be holding a cover in place over the HD-and-memory compartment, but the cover remained pretty tightly in place anyway. Dunno what I'm missing -- but if there's a switch in this laptop I'd figure