SOLVED/FIXED/YIPPEE: I'm now typing this on my lappy with a freshly installed Xubuntu 8.04. It was the broadcom drivers. I blacklisted both the b43xx and the b43legacy and it booted straight away. clocksource=hpet did nothing.
Although it's all working now it is still a bit of a showstopper for newbies and experienced users alike. This has been the most difficult 'buntu installation since 'buntu time began. All the times I have installed linux on this 64bit laptop, I've always installed a 32bit version because of the broadcom wireless chipset. I have never been able to get the bcm43xx drivers to work and always had to resort to ndiswrapper with 32bit Windows drivers to get it working, hence the necessity of a 32bit version of linux. So for this latest release I purchased (beforehand) a wireless card with a gpl driver available here http://www.thelinuxemporium.co.uk/pr...ess/#pidR26799 for £10, so that I could finally have a 64bit linux installed AND have working wireless. Subsequently I then still had a problem with the broadcom drivers, this time stopping it booting!! Aaargh! How annoying are broadcom?? Thankfully the card from The Linux Emporium worked out of the box (once the machine finally booted!) Thanks for everyones help, appreciate it. Martin -- No versions of Ubuntu 8.04 will install on HP Pavilion zv5000 Series Laptops https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/238042 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
