I can confirm that this is somehow related to the wireless card: I accidentally meddled with the driver jockey and obviously removed parts (or all) of the firmware files for my b43 wireless device. At the next reboot, even though I had a network cable plugged into the laptop, it would not stall after hitting the first key of my password. I then fixed the wireless, and rebooted again, and the freezing was back.
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