dijk Posted October 28, 2007 Report Share Posted October 28, 2007 My system has a newly installed Mandriva Powerpack 2008. When I boot it it keeps freezing on "Looking for new hardware [ OK ]" The system is kinda' old. It's a fresh install, and I have'nt installed any new hardware. My previous (2007.1) system was working perfectly on the same configuration. I was able to boot it in failsafe mode once, but it has'nt worked since. I have googled without any answers. Any idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 29, 2007 Report Share Posted October 29, 2007 Can you please boot with the 'nopinit' parameter so we know where it's really freezing? parallel init makes it hard to know which service is actually failing. Hit F2 at the boot screen and type 'nopinit', then tell us where it freezes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dijk Posted October 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 After running "nopinit" I find out that it stops at Looking for new hardware in the alsadriver state. alsa states it's already started. I booted it succesfully in interactive mode where i skipped "harddrake" and "alsa". Is there any way to make the system automatically skip those stages, or do I have to do it manually every time?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 You can stop harddrake running on boot in the Mandriva Control Centre: System - Manage System Services - Manage system services by enabling or disabling services: scroll down to harddrake and uncheck the 'on boot' field. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dijk Posted October 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 (edited) Thanks. I have stopped harddrake and alsa from booting at startup since they "hang" the system. I'll see how it goes after I finished installing KDE4 :) EDIT: Misspelled alsa Edited October 30, 2007 by dijk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dijk Posted October 30, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Ok. The system boots just fine and works. But my wireless network does'nt work. Ndiswrapper can't find the adapter. It just says driver instlled. I fink it's because I deactivated harddrake. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 30, 2007 Report Share Posted October 30, 2007 Post the chipset of your wireless card, eg broadcom, and which windows driver you are using with ndiswrapper. If it is a broadcom chipset, there are all kinds of timing issues with the native driver, bcmxx and ndiswrapper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dijk Posted October 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 Maker: NETGEAR Model: WG111T Chipset: Atheros Driver: wg11t.inf (ndiswrapper, driver came on the CD= I hadproblems with this adapter before this. It's ndiswrapper that does'nt find the adapter. Yet im using the correct driver... It was working before I shut down harddrake. After that it dissapeared... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted October 31, 2007 Report Share Posted October 31, 2007 <snip>Chipset: Atheros <snip> I'm using wireless PCI cards with Atheros chipset and depending on the Mandriva version (versions from 2006 to 2008) and the HW (I have no clue what's causing the differences) it works either with ndiswrapper and the win drivers or with madwifi. If you haven't tried madwifi, have a look at it here: http://madwifi.org/ or do a search here in MUB. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dijk Posted November 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 2, 2007 Problem fixed. I connected it to another USB-port a little baddly, so the system did'nt detect it. I also had to run drakroam as root to be able to connect. Im changing the title to solved. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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