Wise, Jeremey wrote: > First break things down a bit more: > > ".....I have all kinds of I/O errors............" > > This (unfortunately) sounds like a hardware issue. Kind of like your > drive is going bad. Download the manufacture's disk diagnostic utility > and run it on the hard drive. Do a full scan. If you have issues getting > grub to initiate and you are getting kernel messages about IO, it has > always proven to be the drive going bad. You may not have 'seen this > under previous versions" because you simply were not using that section > of the hard drive. > > > IF you pass on the drive test then RSVP with some details on your > partition layout. Issues related to modules missing etc, could be from > file level corruption due to bad drive... though the usual response is > core dump of the kernel. If the system is "shutting off" this again > could be from the drive being 'flaky'. > > > Jeremey Wise > Senior Consultant > Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions > RHCE,MCSE,CNE,PSE,TSM > > hi there ! i think so that it is a hard drive problem... but strangely, now i am not getting any problems.. another thing... what should i use for my broadcom wireless card ? ndiswrapper or the bcm43xx_fwcutter rpm ? ndiswrapper worked fine for me during FC5 days...after that for FC6 and F7, ndiswrapper says a better driver is bcm43xx... but bcm43xx gives lots of error messages... also, after installing bcm43xx_fwcutter, it is really a pain to view any of the available networks... my dell laptop (its got an IPW2200) gives a listing of around 5-6 wireless networks in NetworkManager, but my acer laptop with broadcom gives me "no wireless networks found" thing.. any workaround for this ?? regards, amit. _______________________________________________ Fedora-laptop-list mailing list Fedora-laptop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list
