Alright, I may have a solution.
I have an acer extensa 4420 - 5237
I originally couldn't get 7.10 installed on the laptop.
With help Iwas able to solve it in my post on ubuntu forums
Its a combo of the ati x1250 driver and the wireless NIC.
heres the link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.ph
God this is rough. Momera I'm getting the same error you were on my
4420
Say my computer name is "j-laptop"
Gateway is 192.168.1.1
The ip address I want for my laptop is
192.168.1.16
I would boot into recovery mode
type nano /etc/hosts
Replace the second entry which was 127.0.0.1 j-laptop with
