Kernel hangs on Acer travelmate Laptops

[Jools Wills]

Hi, kernel 2.6.15 hangs on many Acer Travelmate laptops. To stop this you have to boot with the option "noapic" but on my laptop (travelmate 8104) it stops the wireless from working correctly.

This bug is fixed in kernel 2.6.16, but I've been informed this won't make it into the dapper release so it would be very useful if the patch could be included in the 2.6.15 kernel.

The kernel bug is here:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4700

and patches are available here:

http://www.fs.tum.de/~aderesch/

Thanks.