FC5 and Intel 3945ABG wireless problem = screen blank after boot

[Tony Nelson]

At 4:20 PM +1200 5/7/06, Simon wrote:
>Further to this:
>
>On 5/7/06, Simon <greminn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi there,
>>
>> i had FC5 installed on my toshiba tecra a6 with all updates applied
>> and working. The last thing was to get the wireless adapter working.
>> Its a Intel 3945ABG which is too new, so i installed the ieee80211
>> ipw3945 rpms from atrpms, folllowing some instructions that i found on
>> the net.
>>
>> On a reboot, the laptop goes thru its boot screen (the graphical FC5
>> one) then once thats finished i get a blank screen. I thought this
>> might be just a X problem, but no disk light when you try to login,
>> and i cant Alt to a console.
>>
>> I can press the power button and it starts to power down, but not
>>completly...
>>
>> Any ideas on where to look on this one?
>
>If i start FC5 at init3, i can then login and do a 'startx' and
>everything works fine. It just wont get to the login screen on a
>normal boot.

Axel Thimm's advice seems good, as usual.

You are then in runlevel 3 with X.  You can take a look at what more
services are started in runlevel 5, with "/sbin/chkconfig --list".  On my
system, they are just atalk, cups, and readahead.  (You won't have atalk.)
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