As a follow-up, I installed Lucid on this same laptop. It no longer
hangs on boot, but it still has the previous problem that WPA/WPA2 is
not available. I'll investigate further and maybe file a separate bug if
there isn't already one.
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hang during boot until orinoco drivers re-enabled
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After fighting a lot with this and another ubuntu bug that made my
machine lock up at boot time, I had to reinstall a system, so I switched
to Fedora 12 and it "just works" out of the box, though without WPA2
support. You might be able to get an effect similar to this with Ubuntu
if you disable hos
Even more on this:
The hang seems to be related to the hostap drivers talking to the card.
Even if I use rmmod to unload orinoco and hostap modules, when I
manually load the hostap module, the machine hangs immediately.
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hang during boot until orinoco drivers re-enabled
https://bugs.launchpad.
More on this:
- still happens with Kosmic.
- does not hang on boot with a vanilla install.
- installation of hostap-utils adds /etc/modprobe.d/hostap-utils.conf, which
blacklists orinoco etc. per instructions to be found various places, such as
Bug #104551.
- once this has happened then it hangs
Public bug reported:
This is on Jaunty. I have a T30 laptop with the default Intersil Prism
2.5 chipset wireless LAN card. Per advice in various bugs (and then I
think via patches that were shipped) the orinoco drivers are disabled,
thus using the hostap_pci drivers, which allow me to use WPA2. Al
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