I just tried the Hardy beta disk, downloaded yesterday.
I think the 8139too problem is resolved. However, the disk still doesn't
boot as a live CD on these laptops, because of the SDHCI module (see
numerous comments above). But I am pretty sure that 8139too got loaded
successfully first. Not positive, but pretty sure.
I tried putting
sdhci.blacklist=yes
on the boot line (when the CD comes up, F6 and remove "quiet=yes" and "splash"
from the boot options, add "sdhci.blacklist=yes", no quotes), but this doesn't
prevent the SDHCI module from being loaded. Here's the web page that suggested
this: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s02.html Maybe this would
work if booting normally (off the hard drive) but it doesn't seem to work with
the live CD.
Anyway, when Hardy comes out, at least those of us who managed to get
previous versions of Ubuntu installed by using alternative install CDs
can probably upgrade to Hardy and use the kernels provided by Ubuntu.
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Regression: RealTek 8139 hard-locks system on installation/modprobe (affects
Averatec, Philips laptops)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/90271
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