-dpet wrote: -> Thanks again for the excellent help. Sadly, I'm still in trouble. I -have -> followed the above exactly, I hope. However, on booting up and -getting -> to the login prompt, the screen has a multi-line error and a Kernel -> panic. That makes it hard to print the whole error here, but it -starts -> with: -> BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, net -hotplug/2359Tainted:GF ) -> and goes on with mentions of "ipw handle" etc etc -> -> I can overcome this by removing the ipw3945-ucode -from /lib/firmware. -> but I can't seem to change the error by fiddling with various things. -> -> By the way, the laptop is a Dell 9400. -> -> Any other ideas would be appreciated. -Sorry, I don't know the cause of that. I'd try to make sure you don't -have remnants of previous install attempts laying around. I've -installed from source and from the atrpms and not had problems like -that. I have a Dell E1705, AKA 9400. -You might try searching the ipw3945 mailing list and bugzilla as well -as the atrpms list and bugzilla. Thanks again, Todd I may have been misleading people. I'll start the story from the beginning. I acquired this Dell 9400, to replace my Toshiba (that didn't seem to like Fedora much) and installed kernel-2054 from DVD. Having got the ethernet set up, I did a yum update kernel and it installed kernel 2174-smp. Is this a correct thing for core duo systems? Well, to cut a long story short, I now find that kernel-2174 responds correctly to the installation of ipw3945, but I still have this error and kernel panic with the smp version. Strange when an article covers this on a Samsung, using a slightly earlier kernel-smp, with no problem. http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mdc1/samsung.html Well, I will use the working version for now, but see if I can somehow sort out the smp in the future Thanks everybody for your help (and patience!) DP South Australia
