On 22/05/12 10:08, nicolas vigier wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2012, Len Lawrence wrote:
Dell XPS m1730, Intel Core Duo 2, x86_64, nvidia graphics.
Mageia 1 running perfectly.
Have at last got round to installing RC-2. Thought it wise to
experiment with an old laptop as my Magaeia 2 system is now my main
workstation. The installation went very smoothly but the display
would not work - flashing red, green, blue, white, black screens
forever. Fell back on the nv driver and booted into GNOME Classic OK.
No wireless so over to ethernet. OK.
One minor problem was no backspace to start with. After switching to
gdm that went away.
The main problem at this stage is no media updates. The DVD appears
in the list as the only update medium and any attempt to add the full
list of sources hits this error:
"...retrieving failed, curl failed, exited with 9"
"Unable to access the distribution medium (no media.cfg file found)"
Using aria2 as downloader gives error 4 and wget error 8.
/etc/release = Mageia 2 release (Cauldron) for x86_64
/etc/urpmi contains mediacfg.d => Devel and Official
Devel,,, contains media.cfg
This was probably due to some mirrors not having the Mageia 2 tree yet.
This should be fixed now.
Yes, thanks, I managed to set up all the sources.
Looked at the 3945 wireless problem again and found that the switch
which I thought controlled Bluetooth actually enables wireless (senile
old git). So, wlan0 comes up but cannot connect. I tried restarting
the router, to no avail. Rebooted - still no connection. The blue LED
is on. Tried ifup wlan0 and was told that it was configured with a
roaming daemon (or something) but was not associated, even though I had
configured it a dozen times; SSID, wpa2/wpa, encryption key... and
switched off roaming. What next?
